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Green Ridgewood urges county to help lead Saddle River County Park climate resiliency effort
Summary
Green Ridgewood presented recommendations from a Columbia University capstone project calling for county leadership and a multi-jurisdictional task force to address flooding, ecological damage and financial risk in Saddle River County Park; the group cited a $10 million NJDEP planning grant and asked the county to apply.
David Refkin, chair of the civic group Green Ridgewood, told commissioners a Columbia University capstone project by 11 graduate students produced recommendations that he said should prompt urgent county action on the Saddle River County Park and its watershed.
"The park and the Saddle River have been seriously damaged by flooding with the ecosystem critically degraded," Refkin said. He told the board the students’ recommendations cover the park, the six adjoining…
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