Claim: Says New Jersey is "losing 50 football fields of open space to development every day and the more we develop upstream the more flooding we have downstream."
Fact-check: New Jersey Sierra Club claims New Jersey loses "50 football fields of open space to development every day"
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Bill Wichert
Date published: 2011-09-19T00:00:00