Flood Mitigation Initiative Considered in Butler
Council members discussed the potential risks to borough by joining Montville's program.
Montville Township has proposed a flood mitigation initiative for the Passaic River Basin communities, and Butler council members discussed how the initiative might affect their community by joining on at Tuesday night’s council meeting. “If we like everything they’re doing, we can agree and move forward with it,” Mayor Robert Alviene said. But James Lampmann, the borough administrator, cautioned that the council should consider how the Montville initiative would impact Butler. “We need to be a little bit careful about some of their goals,” Lampmann said. The initiative proposes using reservoirs as flood control, which would require the reservoirs to be pumped down in anticipation of a flood, Lampmann said. Montville Township Committeeman…
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Richard Dean
3:49 pm on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
42 years ago at the age of 17 & 18 I was an intern news writer at the Suburban Trends under the late editor Howard Ball. One of his biggest concerns was flooding and as he put it "river control." The idea of lowering the reservoirs and lakes upstream when a major rainfall was heading our way was one of the proposals that he supported. In the case of Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 and Hurricane … more ›