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The Green Brook Flood Control Project is a flood control project in Somerset County in central New Jersey first proposed in the early 1970s in the wake of two major flooding events: a 1971 flood event and a major 1973 flood which ravaged the Green Brook and Raritan River basins, causing millions in property damage and several deaths in central New Jersey.
Closure gates along Raritan are functionally complete – The gate closures across the New Jersey Transit railroad tracks on the western side of Bound Brook and at the South Main Street railroad underpass that leads to Queens Bridge have been completed and are used to keep flood waters out of Bound Brook.
In nearby Bound Brook, a NJ Transit train was stuck in floodwaters. [39] Nearby in Newark , the city realized their wettest day on record with 8.41 in (214 mm) of rain pouring down. [ 40 ] Three tornadoes touched down in the state, which were all produced by the same supercell.
December 18, 2023 at 10:23 AM. A massive rainstorm that hit Sunday night continued to batter North Jersey into Monday with major flooding and power outages wreaking havoc on the region. Relief ...
Road flooding and highway closures in NJ. Flooded highways remained into Tuesday afternoon. Route 23 in Wayne is flooded in both directions from Route 202 to CR511A/Boulevard in Riverdale ...
The New Jersey State Bar Association provided pro bono disaster legal service to state residents. [21] After downtown Bound Brook was under 12 ft (3.7 m) of floodwaters, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection worked with the New York District of the Corps of Engineers to build the Green Brook Flood Control Project. The $110 ...
Queen's Bridge over the Raritan River. Bound Brook is a borough in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located along the Raritan River.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 11,988, [10] [11] an increase of 1,586 (+15.2%) from the 2010 census count of 10,402, [20] [21] which in turn reflected an increase of 247 (+2.4%) from the 10,155 counted in the ...
Route 28. Route 28 is a state highway in the central part of New Jersey, United States that is 26.44 mi (42.55 km) long. Its western terminus is at U.S. Route 22 (US 22) in Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, while its eastern terminus is at Route 27 in Elizabeth, Union County. From its western terminus, Route 28 heads east through Raritan ...