Flood Victim Takes Buyout in Little Falls ; Sells Home to Township Through Fema Program

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › September 12, 2007

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LITTLE FALLS Four floods in eight years were enough for Anthony Solimine as he considered whether to hang on in his Cape Cod home on William Street.

So he became the first to be bought out by the Repetitive Flood Claims Grant Program, administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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Flood Victim Takes Buyout in Little Falls ; Sells Home to Township Through Fema Program

Under the program, FEMA gave the township $1.5 million to buy out, and then demolish, four homes that flood repeatedly. Solimine said he accepted the township's offe...

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