Climate change, development leaves Newark’s Ironbound alarmed about Passaic River flooding

MARK J. BONAMO / BERNARDSVILLE NEWS – Since colonists from Connecticut settled Newark in 1666, people have come to the banks of the Passaic River for a range of reasons.

In the early 1800s, it was for bathing, drinking, and transport. Then, as the Industrial Revolution took hold, the Passaic’s banks boomed when factories lined the river and business blossomed …