A community meeting is scheduled for 4 p.m. Tuesday on the Seton Hall campus in South Orange
The dome of Walsh Library at Seton Hall University in South Orange overlooks Newark's flood-prone Ivy Hill neighborhood.Local and county governments and Seton Hall University have devised a plan to reduce flooding in a Newark neighborhood bordering the school’s South Orange campus, just as the basketball powerhouse seeks planning approval for a new practice facility.
“The city’s going to put in more drainage on the street; there are some other things South Orange is going to do; that Seton Hall University’s going to do,” Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said of the plan, referring specifically to Woodbine Avenue, an east-west street that terminates at a Seton Hall campus gate and sees some of the area’s worst flooding. “I think all of the things that we do, collectively, is going to mitigate this problem.
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