Teens Terrorize Neighborhood Corps to Study Flooding
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IN THE NEWS SEPTEMBER 14, 1994______________________________________________40 CENTS VOLUME 24, NUMBER 37 Teens terrorize neighborhood BY MARILYN DUFF Holmdel to the south, the North Middletown section of Staff Writer Middletown to the east and azlet officials and Keansburg to the north. police will meet The teens show up in tonight with resi groups of from 10 to 30 and Hdents of the West Keansburginclude both boys and girls, Park section who saythe they residents said. have been bothered since last One woman said in a tele winter by a group of teen phone interview that around agers. noon one day last week, The public meeting is before school started, teens in scheduled for 7 p.m. at the a passing car yelled to her 8- municipal building. 319 year-old daughter, who was Middle Road. playing outside, to “get the — At last week’ s regular — off the street.” They sped Township Committee meet away leaving a 10-foot skid ing, about a dozen residents mark. complained about problems There have been no inci with teen-agers hanging out in dents involving weapons or a the Mercer Street Park and gun. Even so, “It’s scary,” the throughout the small neigh woman said. She has lived in borhood. the neighborhood for 10 Also, the residents say, years; up until this past winter teens have been speeding in she has never had to worry. cars through residential Randy Kazimir, Hazlet, a union iron worker for Jersey Steel Erectors, Highlands, bolts steel beams Now, “all of a sudden these together as Hazlet’s new community center begins to take shape last week. For the story, see page 4. streets, most of which do not kids got their (drivers’) licens (Photo by Rich Schultz) have stop signs, and even es,” she said, and that makes cursing at young children matters worse. She has even playing outside, residents thought of moving because of said. the situation, she said. Corps to study flooding The residents, some of Another woman at last whom later asked not to be week’s meeting said her identified for fear of re garbage cans had been run BY MARILYN DUFF flooding problems which are The area elevations are below 8 tribution, said most of the over. beyond the means of the township feet, with the lowest point, along teen-agers are from neighbor Staff Writer The problem started last or the state to contain,” Oxley said. Brainard Avenue, being just 3.75 ing towns. winter, with the teens hanging he Middletown mayor an When Hurricane Donna struck feet, said Farrell. The section, which forms out after school in the park, nounced some good news in 1960, flood waters rose 8.6 feet The township has been trying the extreme eastern end of Friday, in particular for above sea level, flooding a low- since about 1987 to get assistance Hazlet, is bordered by Continued on page 8 TPort Monmouth residents, but lyingalso area all the way back to from the Corps, the state for beach lovers, in general, Lydiaand Place. Department of Environmental Union even for the county park system, In the recent December 1992 Protection and legislators. Beach which is developing much of the nor’easter, flood waters rose slight Back in the 1960s, the Corps Port Monmouth beach area as a ly higher — to 8.9 feet — accord constructed a hurricane protection waterfront park. ing to township engineer William berm from Hazlet to the North The good news is that the U.S. Farrell, forcing an eventual evacu Middletown section west of Port Army Corps of Engineers plans to ation of residents to the Monmouth. At that time, it did not HAZLET do a feasibility study for a multi Community Fire House in think the “cost-benefit ratio” war million dollar flood control and Leonardo. ranted continuing the project into shoreline protection project, Even during “normal” high Port Monmouth, according to Far including a dune and beach-berm waters, areas south of Port rell. system and levees along bordering Monmouth Road and the historic, In 1993, the Corps revisited the creeks. centuries-old Spy House, which area as part of a Raritan and Sandy In announcing the plans at his are at higher elevations, are sus Hook Bay, New Jersey Combined West Keansburg monthly press conference Friday, ceptible to flooding, said Farrell. Flood Control and Shore Park Mayor Joseph Oxley called it a Today the flood-prone area Protection Reconnaissance Study “major plus for the area. contains about 150 homes roughly and identified Port Monmouth as a between Main Street (Port “Port Monmouth residents have Continued on page 4 been subjected for years to serious Monmouth) and Wilson Avenue. Check out our Meet Your Match Personals in your paper this week and place a free ad — details inside. 2 SEPTEMBER 14,1994, THE INDEPENDENT leHALLOWEEN o t « r t * 9 ‘94’ wmmJiWm | M "T i p 1 We Dare to Be Different! 0 / OFF & more If it shakes, rattles or 0 on select glows we have it! 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