Summary
The state will soon begin negotiating with homeowners to buy and demolish as many as 162 houses in flood-prone areas of Wayne, Pompton Lakes, Little Falls and Lincoln Park, officials said Tuesday.
The $37 million earmarked last year for the Passaic River Basin comes from $48.3 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency grants to New Jersey anti-flooding projects. The basin has continually been the hardest hit area in the state, experiencing 13 floods in the last 42 years that were so bad they prompted federal disaster declarations.See the full content of this document
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State to Buy, Raze Homes
The bulk of the money will be used to buy out homes, demolish them a...
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