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I grew up in Bound Brook on Talmadge Avenue. I am proud of that. My family and I withstood the August 71 flood. It was a horrific experience as it was the first of its kind in modern day Bound Brook. Shortly after the 71 flood the Army Corps of Engineers showed up with their equipment, drew some water lines on various buildings, published the estimated volumes of flood water then they disappeared for decades. Next year will be the 40th aniversary of what is now described worldwide on CNN by Wolfe Blitzer as "The epicenter of flooding in New Jersey". According to Anthony Ciorra of the Army Corps of Engineers "It could take another thirty years to complete" the flood control project. Why should the effected homeowners pay property tax while their families can not live in a safe and normal enviroment as the homeowners on Maple Avenue and Watchung Avenue and Piedmont Drive? The town allows the occupancy in homes that are saturate with molds and contaminants from years of flooding. The town allows flooded buisness to operate and serve the public in like circumstances. Perhaps if the flood waters would reach Watchung Road the local government who has failed the flooded families for fourty years would then heed the recomendations of the New Jersey Sierra Club and force those recommendations upon the State of New Jersey. Until then flooding will bankrupt life in Bound Brook, families will not be atracted to 08805, business will find it more difficult to succeed in Bound Brook, property values will continue to weaken throught the community, the town will loose tax revenue and it's finances will "go down the drain" impeeding the ability to fund the school system. And then after a dozen or more additional life threatening floods over the next thirty years the Army Corps of Engineers will admit they didn't get it right. Stephen Ponichtera, P O Box 6, Peapack-Gladstone, NJ 07934.