Dear Editor:
On Monday the 18th, the North Hudson Sewerage Authority met and voted on a resolution which denied a sewer hookup for the project at 101 Marshall in Hoboken. The Authority cited a study indicating that the property would flood during the worst storm typically experienced in any given year if it occurred at high tide. For the worst storm that would occur in a five-year period the site would flood even if it were low tide. Although the Sewerage Authority denied this hookup, it does not guarantee that this project will not be built.
We need to urge Hoboken Mayor David Roberts and this administration to stop this project. It was offered at this meeting that if the surrounding road and elevation were raised by approximately two feet (an exact figure was not made clear) the Authority would consider approving the project. Raising the road in this manner, however, could adversely affect properties that would still lie in an adjacent lower elevation.
This project is situated in a complex part of town. It nearly abuts Jersey City. The project and the cars in its garage will be located at the already overburdened intersection at Patterson Plank Road and the future light rail. Also at this intersection is a proposed project in Jersey City by the same developer.
We must all work together to control what is happening on this site and press our administration to act and to do so in concert with Jersey City.
Jason Burch