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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 million project was designed to withstand a 150-year flood.
Flooding problems once again occurred in Manville on March 14, 2010, with rivers running already high due to recent snow melt along with 3 to 4 inches (76 to 102 mm) of rain that fell on the area on March 13, flooding was inevitable. More extensive flooding affected Manville in August 2011 when Hurricane Irene passed through New Jersey. [95]
Record flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd in September 1999 (42.13 ft (12.84 m)) flood crest, 14 ft (4.3 m) above flood stage) caused renewed interest in a flood control project called the Green Brook Flood Control Project, which is designed to protect Bound Brook from a 150-year flood.
The Raritan River near Bound Brook has already reached 25.78 feet, which is near the 28-foot flood stage. The river is not expected to crest until 6 p.m. Monday at 30.9 feet, about 12 feet less ...
Central Jersey residents are coping with effects of the third major winter storm in less than a month.
The soggy saga of the Duck Harbor overwash situation rolls on in Wellfleet, and a stretch of road has been raised to help keep flooding at bay.. Since about January 2021, seawater from Cape Cod ...
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.
In Bound Brook, the Raritan crested at a record 42.5 ft (13.0 m) on September 16, well above the 28 ft (8.5 m) flood stage, and exceeding the previous record of 37.5 ft (11.4 m) set during Tropical Storm Doria in 1971. Downtown Bound Brook was flooded 13 ft (4.0 m), causing 200 buildings to be condemned.