Much of the Superstorm Sandy clean-up work in New Jersey will be in removing silt from storm drains and culverts in areas hard hit by huge waves that surged at the Atlantic coastline, the same water that crushed boardwalks and damaged buildings and cars. That’s the prediction of Tom Ferrero, a longtime official of the National Association of Wastewater Technicians.
Ferrero’s family’s pumping business is located in Horsham, Pa., about 100 miles west of Atlantic City, N.J., and its fleet of vacuum trucks were scrambled soon after Sandy’s landfall for a variety of cleanup work. At first, the trucks were working
