In Bound Brook, Congressman Mike Ferguson tours the construcition site where important flood control measures are underway.

Ferguson: Funds needed for flood project

June 24, 2008

COURIER NEWS STORY - JUNE 24, 2008

The long-awaited Green Brook flood control project is making slow, but steady progress. The current focus of the project supervised by the Army Corps of Engineers is the construction of a new Talmage Avenue bridge over the Middle Brook at the borough's western border with Bridgewater.

The new bridge, which will be six feet higher than the current span, will allow levees to be constructed south along the Middle Brook to the Raritan River. Levees have already been built along the Middle Brook from Tea Street Park north to the Bridgewater border along the stream.
Once those levees are completed, then construction will begin on the project's final phase, levees along the Raritan River.

But the project needs more money and Rep. Michael Ferguson (R-New Providence) said Monday on a tour of the work site, he will work during the remainder of his term to obtain the funds.
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