Manville

  • 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 congressional approval of more than $1.6 million to build a bridge at the intersection of 13th Street and the Lehigh Valley rail line, and to renovate the aging Bridge Street bridge above the CSX West Trenton rail line.

  • Congressman Ferguson voted to provide Manville public schools with more than $333,720 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.

  • Congressman Ferguson is a frequent visitor to Manville’s VFW Post 2290 – the largest in the state – where he’s held town meetings and special forms with 7th District veterans.



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