Residents in many parts of New Jersey are still trying to cope with the damage caused by floodwaters from Hurricane Irene. Now there are concerns about more flooding.

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Larry Ragonese says all the rain this week has pushed up river levels around the state. He doesn’t expect any flooding will be as severe as that produced by the hurricane.

“Everywhere in New Jersey that tends to flood, has problems with water, we’ll watching for street flooding and some very minor flooding that could cause a few evacuations.”

The biggest concern for additional flooding is in the Passaic River basin.
Officials do not anticipate major problems this time at the Trenton train station where an overflowing Assunpink Creek submerged the tracks and disrupted New Jersey Transit and Amtrak rail service last week.