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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 ...
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 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.
New Jersey's primary natural threats are coastal storms, ... with levels surging up to 14 feet above flood stage. Towns like Bound Brook bore the brunt of the disaster, where 10 feet of water ...
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 ...
The Brook Industrial Park (BIP) is located in the Borough of Bound Brook in the Somerset County of New Jersey. The town is linked to the Raritan River by a stream, giving recreational use to the town’s people. Contamination of this river and the BIP’s soil and groundwater was discovered to be the result of misconduct of three companies.
The Millstone River is a 38.6-mile-long (62.1 km) tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States. [3]The Millstone River begins in western Monmouth County and flows westward through northern Mercer County / southern Middlesex County, and northward through southern Somerset County, before draining into the Raritan River at Manville.
Bound Brook [1] is a tributary of the Raritan River in Middlesex County, New Jersey, in the United States. [2]Its name comes from a boundary in an Indian deed. [3] The stream is referred to as Sacunk, a Native American name meaning "slow sluggish stream", on early maps of the area.