Firm Says: Millburn May Flood Again
Engineering firm, Hatch Mott McDonald, presented the committee with a study that says the township needs help from surrounding towns to prevent flooding.
In the Millburn Township Committee meeting this week, Hatch Mott McDonald, an engineering firm, gave a presentation of a study it conducted to find a way to prevent flooding in town. However, after researching the issues since the January of this year, the firm, which specializes in storm and sewer water management, said Millburn can't fix the issue alone. "The problems are much larger than we thought they initially might be," a senior vice president of Hatch Mott McDonald, John Rolak Jr. said. The study showed six municipalities' sewer lines, New Providence, Summit, South Orange, West Orange, Maplewood and Millburn, all meet at Gilbert Place pump station and go under the Rahway River and Route 78 to the treatment plant in Elizabeth. "The…
kirk barrett
1:19 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
The River that goes thru Millburn Center is the _West_ Branch of the Rahway River. The River that goes thru the golf course in Maplewood is the _East_ Branch of the Rahway River. (The two branch merge right under Rt 78, just west of the Springfield Ave. overpass.) It is difficult to see how work on the West Branch in Millburn Center could worsen flooding on the East Branch in Maplewood. more ›