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yeah I am getting water coming up through the floor. Very minor at this point as I will only have to mop. Nothing compared to the foot I got last time so I will keep my fingers crossed until the rain stops.
Posted on: 2010/3/30 19:30
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Oh gosh guys I am so sorry. Hope it gets better soon and not to much damage happens.
Posted on: 2010/3/30 16:52
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We are... backup pump died about 15 min into use. Husband is trying to quickly move water to the front sump pump while more flows in from the back. Homeowner adjuster supposed to show today as well for previous flood....ironic.
At least now we know that water in the back is part of the issue (for the 3/14 flood we weren't home to diagnose). We should have trusted our home inspector who said the drainage in back was suspect...now we know.
Posted on: 2010/3/30 16:03
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Anyone else getting flooded from water coming in from the floor, underneath the walls, and backed up sump pumps today?
Posted on: 2010/3/30 15:46
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Yeah, tonight is looking like another round of heavy rains, especially in the early morning hours (4 am timeframe). They keep shifting the forecast from heavy rains/wind to just rain/wind - regardless it won't be fun.
HarryK, that sucks about your situation. We had our flood adjuster come last week and regular homeowner's tomorrow. We put some sandbags out and got a back-up sump pump just in case. Hope this isn't as bad as 3/14 for everyone...going to be a long, restless night. Looking forward to the warmer weather later this week!
Posted on: 2010/3/29 21:37
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Route 7 between Kearny and Jersey City closed because of flooding
By The Jersey Journal March 29, 2010, 11:59AM Route 7 in both directions has been closed by the Kearny Police Department because of flooding, which has caused some traffic delays in the area. The incoming tide exacerbated the problem caused by the sometimes torrential rain, a police spokesman said. Route 7 connects Jersey City and Kearny, and crosses the Hackensack River. New Jersey Department of Transportation workers are on the scene. The police could not give a time when they expected the road to be reopened. 
Posted on: 2010/3/29 20:58
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Just had the flood adjustor come by last saturday to assess the damage from the storm on 3/14 and my basement flooded again last night. My neighbors shit all over my basement. Craptastic.
Cant remember any flooding where i am (country village) until a few years ago when they built a new development nearby. Now it happens at least 2x a year. Healy sent out a letter to the residents last year about doing some kind of bs survey, but i havent seen anything done.
Posted on: 2010/3/29 19:29
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New Flood Warnings for our area into Tuesday March 23rd.
http://www.weather.com/weather/alerts ... Z006&office=KOKX&etn=0004
Posted on: 2010/3/22 21:07
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TKO Sewer Services
759 Westfield Avenue, Elizabeth, NJ 07208-1343 (908) 351-0268
Posted on: 2010/3/22 0:04
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(Reposting to this relevant thread) I wanted to see if anyone had any recommendations for someone to build about a foot high concrete waterproof barrier at our basement entrance to prevent water flow from the sidewalk as well as someone to put the sump pump drain/pipe under the sidewalk. I see PMJ come up often - any others who have done this type of work and can recommend someone?
Thanks!
Posted on: 2010/3/21 23:47
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NPR aired a segment this morning about weekend flooding in Hoboken. There's excitement over a new pumping station that will transfer flood water out to the Hudson...though they speculate that it wouldn't have made much of an impact in this most recent storm.
Posted on: 2010/3/19 13:23
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'helm the city' is a nice touch in a thread about flooding. 
Posted on: 2010/3/19 13:18
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What have the city's planners & engineers been doing all these years? Yeah, that's a rhetorical question. For one, head city planner Bob Cotter has been in a high-ranking position for more than decade so he, of all people, could have done something about it already -- regardless of administration. This. But god forbid you want to paint your front door an "un-approved" color....
Posted on: 2010/3/19 13:12
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Flooding in JC is nothing new. It happens over & over again. How administration after administration got away without seriously tackling it is a mystery. All the development that has happened in the past two decades should have been coordinated with an effective flooding management plan. What have the city's planners & engineers been doing all these years? Yeah, that's a rhetorical question. For one, head city planner Bob Cotter has been in a high-ranking position for more than decade so he, of all people, could have done something about it already -- regardless of administration. And all the development means that money also poured in JC, like water during the rains. Why didn't the city target some of the PILOT moneys from all the tax abatements for this infrastructure improvement? The people who helm this city -- elected politicians or appointed officials -- do not have any excuse.
Posted on: 2010/3/19 1:56
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You've shown their smoke & mirror campaign has worked. They put an unreachable number out there and then are absolved from any lesser actions. There's lots of actions that can be taken short of digging every street, and they already know what they are. The MUA has had a completely designed but unfunded plan for a pump station for southern Downtown for over a dozen years. These pumps are what is needed to allow our low lying system to drain. Hoboken, with the exact same problems, is moving forward under Dawn Zimmer on building pumps by leveraging outside resources like state federal & NJ transit. But we pay for expensive engineering studies and plans by politically connected firms that then sit in a drawer because the money gets siphoned away like it always does and then when it floods the MUA either blames the victims of calls it an "act of God".
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Neither had anything to do with flooding in JC. The MUA estimated it would cost over $150 million to improve our downtown sewer/water lines which have 8" clay pipes. The MUA has nada budget. Thank Brett Schundler for setting up the MUA when he was Mayor.
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Neither had anything to do with flooding in JC. The MUA estimated it would cost over $150 million to improve our downtown sewer/water lines which have 8" clay pipes. The MUA has nada budget. Thank Brett Schundler for setting up the MUA when he was Mayor.
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Has anyone ever used one of the flood cleanup emergency crews and know how much they cost? They pumped out our water, dropped off humidifiers and fans, put all of our wet crap in our backyard and then mopped/cleaned the floor over the course of 3 days. We are starting to assess damage/costs and getting return phone calls isn't always easy. Thanks!
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Posted on: 2010/3/16 22:39
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That's what happens in our basement. I saw it myself: water spurting from dozens of otherwise invisible cracks on the floor. It was pretty scary.
Posted on: 2010/3/16 20:18
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1st thing I did after our 1st flood shortly after we bought 13 years ago was a check valve. Water promptly sprang from every crack and opening in the slab in the next flood. The sewer leaks so badly it pressurizes the fill between the house and sewer and under the foundation. I'm sure this is a cause of much of the foundation caused floor sagging downtown, including my own. Ok. I should have clarified I did more than just a check valve. The clay pipe under my cellar floor was a mess, mostly because of previous lousy tie-ins of new work.... In addition to the check valve, i had ran new 4" PVC waste lines in the cellar and connected to the clay pipe at the foundation wall with a rubber boot connector. The pipe from the foundation wall to the street was actually in pretty good shape. So I connected from a good pipe from the street to new PVC and check valve. All dry.
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Heights, yeah and let's blame GWB for this weekend's past storm also. What ever happened to that Hope and Change thing? (Oh, I guess it was a good campaign slogan!)
Posted on: 2010/3/16 18:38
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1st thing I did after our 1st flood shortly after we bought 13 years ago was a check valve. Water promptly sprang from every crack and opening in the slab in the next flood. The sewer leaks so badly it pressurizes the fill between the house and sewer and under the foundation. I'm sure this is a cause of much of the foundation caused floor sagging downtown, including my own. The MUA actually ran it's little robot camera down the 18 inch brick sewer line in the street and saw numerous offsets & longitudinal cracks, but will not do anything about it till the sewer actually collapses. There's technology to reline sewers without digging and build pumping stations so the sewers don't overcharge, but there's no money or political will to do it. That's because we raise our heads after a bad storm, then they wear us down with BS until we sink back into our apathy. The priority of our elected officials and the MUA is funneling money to supporter unions and donor/contractors. Any public service accomplished is merely incidental.
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I used to get basement flooding from the sewer backcharge, not rising groundwater.
Installed a check valve in the line just before it exits the building. Cellar has been dry for over 10 years.
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You mean Haiti because with Katrina nothing was done except to shove Americans out of their commoonity to other pastures. Maybe we can sing a song as they do in Hollywood and the entertainment media to make everything right again.
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Healy doesn't care about black people.
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The lack of infrastructure maintenance nationwide is a huge problem and is another manifestation of a culture that is unwilling to invest in things that don't translate immediately into personal gain. The census bureau projects the U.S. population will grow almost 50% from 2005 to 2050 and the trend toward urbanism is expected to continue.
We are struggling with 100+ year old water systems currently - what will happen when cities (particularly in the northeast where density is highest and pipes are oldest) have double their current load?
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Small consolation, I know, but JC isn't alone in having an antiquated system and politicians who'd rather not deal with the issue. A good point is made in this article: we pay more (and often glady) a month for cable and our fancy iPhones than we do for water and sewer services.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/us/ ... .html?src=me&ref=homepage
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Well Healy and Gaughan live in the Heights, and presumably the other members of the council live in houses that don't flood.
I'm not sure where the responsibility lies legally, but I think the city shirked it when they sold everything to the M.U.A. I think the money to fix everything will end up coming from our water and sewage charge, and not from property taxes. But I know I feel better knowing that Gaughan's daughter is in charge.
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What's amazing to me is the fact that you think it's amazing that the lazy, egotistical sham of a government JC offers us hasn't done anything about another major problem. It should be expected that nothing get done.
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