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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
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.
The 575-acre Superfund site at Bound Brook-Bridgewater had a history of flooding. It was flooded in the 1930s and again in August 1971 during Tropical Storm Doria , at which time the plant sustained major damage to its facilities and equipment.