SOUTH RIVER–The Borough Council approved a resolution entering into the KaBOOM Grant Program to seek funding for new playground equipment at Volunteer Park.
Borough Administrator Jack Layne said the program provides funding that helps organizations build playgrounds. The borough would like to improve its existing playground in order to upgrade its parks, he said.
During the Oct. 22 council meeting, Layne said, The existing playground equipment at this location is older, in disrepair and should be replaced with new equipment.”
The borough will submit a grant application this month, he said.
In similar news, the council also approved a resolution authorizing the borough’s commitment to the New Jersey Department of Environment Protect’s (DEP) Resilient New Jersey Grant Program.
Layne said the program is intended to support and direct a consultant team that will address measures for long-term protection, resilience and stability from natural disasters within five contiguous Middlesex County towns, bracketing the Lower Raritan and Bay within Watershed Management Area 9, and Watershed Management Area 7 in the northern portion of Woodbridge and Perth Amboy at the northern limits of the proposed study region.
The study region includes lands involving tributaries and tidal-influenced areas of the Raritan River and Raritan Bay, the Arthur Kill, the Atlantic Coast Basin and a portion of the south branch of the Rahway River and Heards Brook. The proposed study region is prone to chronic flooding from tidal storm surges and headwater rainfall events impacting riparian segments of the region’s stream network, according to Layne.
“South River was significantly negatively impacted by Hurricane Sandy and subsequent high tide and flooding problems over a number of years,” Layne said. “Therefore, the borough believes that it is necessary and beneficial that the borough develop programs and projects for inhibiting and mitigating property damage resulting from storms, high tides and flooding.”
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