Lakewood, NJ – Lakewood Township has a problem. Once a sleepy vacation resort in the heavily wooded and sandy-soiled pine forest, it is now a major New Jersey city and a concrete jungle and the water has virtually nowhere to go, but to an overburdened stormwater system that replaced the natural sandy soil and well-drained landscape with parking lots, pavement, and large high-density housing projects. Widespread flash flooding that inundated Lakewood and surrounding communities over the weekend has reignited a long-running debate over what is driving increasingly severe flooding across central Ocean County. While meteorologists point to the intense rainfall…