To ALL State & Federal Senators, Congressman and Legislatures the voters and taxpayers of Northern NJ demand proactive measures be implemented in the short term to reduce and eliminate the yearly devastation of flooding not only along the Passaic River banks but for homes, businesses and schools miles away. This plea is not just the result of Hurricane Irene but what has become a yearly event for all the residents since 2007.

The people you represent are NOT in need of further studies but are...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that federal aid has been made available to the State of New Jersey to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by Hurricane Irene beginning on August 27, 2011, and continuing.

The President's action makes federal funding available to affected individuals in Bergen, Essex, Morris, Passaic, and Somerset counties. 

Assistance can include grants for temporary housin...

WASHINGTON — During a grand presentation in the ornate rotunda of New York Penn Station last month, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was Santa Claus in a gray suit, handing out more than $2 billion for rail projects.

Nearly half a billion dollars was to go toward electrical upgrades on the Northeast Corridor between Trenton and New York City, bringing relief to beleaguered commuters on America’s busiest rail line.

Now that funding is threatened by a most unlikely source — a New Je...

Assembly Republican Deputy Conference Leader Scott Rumana, a member of the Governor’s Passaic River Flood Advisory Commission and Chairman of the Passaic River Basin Flood Task Force, called today’s announcement by the Christie administration that New Jersey will receive nearly $50 million in FEMA grants for flood protection projects welcome news, especially for homeowners in the flood-prone Passaic River Basin who will receive the lion’s share of the funds.

            “Having spent t...

O’TOOLE, RUMANA AND RUSSO LAUD AVAILABILITY OF SBA LOANS FOR

COUNTIES DEVASTATED BY SPRING FLOODING

          State Sen. Kevin O’Toole, Assembly Republican Deputy Conference Leader Scott Rumana and Assemblyman David Russo, R-Passaic, Bergen and Essex, said the announcement today by the Christie administration that low interest Small Business Administration  (SBA) loans of up to $200,000 are now available to flood victims in Passaic, Essex, Bergen and Morris counties, whose homes and proper...