WooHoo!!! Yippee!!! This is wonderful news.... Since none of us will be able to sell any time soon, at least we can be safe.... Then maybe we will make it back to happy....

Nice to see that Congressman Pallone was finally able to secure funding for this project. He has been working on it for years.

Frank Pallone Jr. have you been through Union Beach in the last week? The Army Corps of Engineer Plan was never implemented!! When will the Flood Project for Union Beach get funded??? http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fplanning.usace.army.mil%2Ftoolbox%2Flibrary%2FChiefReports%2Fraritanbay_sandyhook_nj.pdf&h=0AQFD2ACA

It's a little bit to late. I hope neither of the above had damage. I can't wait until 2015. Try and tell that to my neighbor who have young children that Mr Pallone is going to fix the the barn door after the horse got away.

What about union beach and Keansburg?!

Pallone has been working on this for years and it is good to see that the money is now available to make this flood control project happen. What I find interesting is Mr. Fiore's attempt to take credit by saying that he has been working on this for years. When Patrick Short and Sean Byrnes, both Democrats, were members of the Middletown Township Committee Patrick worked very closely with Ted Maloney to promote and design a pumping station that would have cost about $1.5 million to implement to help control flooding in the Bayshore. An ordinance was passed to provide the funding. Shortly thereafter Partick lost his bid for re-election and shortly after that the scope of the project was diminished -- pumping station was eliminated -- by the Republican majority that Tony Fiore represents. So, I find it amusing that he is taking credit for working so hard to promote this project. Now that Mayo Scharfenberger is running for re-election, I wonder how he will try to take credit for all of the work that Democrat Pallone has put into this project. Especially since he and Fiore and other Republicans on the Township Committee voted to scale back the flood control project that Patrick Short, with the support of Sean Byrnes, had designed to bring flood relief to the residents of the Bayshore. The Middletown Republicans, along with Kyrillos and Handlin and Thompson, had over thirty years to bring relief to the Bayshore; it took Pallone and other local Democrats to get it funded.

Now Pilgrim. I know you lay awake at night thinking of ways to prop up the hapless Middletown Democrats and take shots at Republicans, but please, give it a rest already. Pallone had 30 years to get this done and it took the massive storm Sandy and a huge feral aid package to have the money finally appear. Your lame attempt at making this a local issue shows your limited knowledge of this complex problem. This is obviously well beyond the capacity of every town along the bayshore to deal with. Otherwise, every town along the shore would have done this decades ago. Just look at the amount of money that is needed. Btw, how is Barbara Buono's campaign looking? Let's see you spin that train wreck the way you do the local Democrats.

Still going to raise my house

Seeing is believing. This all was supposed to happen after the flooding from the noreaster in 1991. Promises were made then and never were fulfilled. Where has Middletown been when the wetside residents needed more help after Sandy? My daughter questioned then Mayor Fiore and she got no answers from him. It is the same with the new Mayor. One of the biggest problems in Port Monmouth, is the people that live there. They cry that they need help. Do they attend any meetings with the town council? No, they don't. Residents of the wetside of Middletown. Band together and demand action from the township to help you and stop hindering the rebuilding.

Two miles of floodwalls and levees, detention ponds in the floodplain and a flood gate, 91 million and it would not have stopped sandy which had water above the current dyke. Its a waste of money, the area is a natural floodplain meaning it was meant to receive the stormwater, but that is just the natural state and the army corps will prevent that?

Again, still going to raise my house according to flood maps. I went a meeting and the made a fool out of me :(

joe the dyke at its current height did hold back sandy it was just about to the top and in center of meadow did flow over some in a200 ft. section that was damaged and army corps will be repairing the guy who designed this in earlier 70s should get a medal its was built for hurricane donna plus aft and held back sandy port monmouth would be dry if it was built before sandy

Um, I think you mean "dike."

I am so happy we are getting some help here! Maybe there was nothing we could have done to prevent flooding from a hurricane but we need help on a daily basis. When we bought our house the only time we flooded was during a storm with a full moon at high tide. Now since the building of the Dunes & Park Ferry we flood constantly. Not only do we need dikes & flood gates but we need no more building on the water! I will raise but what about vehicles? I can't afford to lose another car & don't tell me to move to higher ground - I couldn't sell my house if I wanted to

Mr. Pallone you were missed at tonight's meeting in Port Monmouth! We had questions that only you could answer & you were not here! I hope the people of Port Monmouth ban together and insist that you tell us why this project is taking so long! The devastation of Sandy did not have to happen! We will not go away this time!