Congressman Mike Ferguson

Bound Brook

• Congressman Ferguson secured more than $50 million for the ongoing Green Brook flood control project, which is designed to protect against the rising waters that devastated local communities and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage during Hurricane Floyd in 1999. While that funding has financed elevating bridges, building levees and flood walls, and installing pumping stations, more needs to be done. The April 2007 nor’easter caused more flooding, and Congressman Ferguson announced $5.2 million in emergency funding and successfully secured an additional $10 million in the administration’s 2008 budget. For the second time in a year, Congressman Ferguson in 2007 brought John Woodley, the nation’s top flood control official, to Bound Brook and Manville to see the status of the flood control project firsthand.

• Congressman Ferguson secured $30,000 to upgrade the Bound Brook Police Department’s emergency communications capabilities, allowing officials to communicate more easily with different agencies during emergencies.

• Congressman Ferguson voted to provide Bound Brook public schools with $811,945 in federal elementary and secondary education aid in fiscal year 2007. Congressman Ferguson has voted to increase federal education funding for New Jersey schools by more than 33 percent since 2001.

• The Bound Brook Police Department received a $33,100 grant from the Homeland Security Department to purchase remote video surveillance equipment.