Mike Deak, Bridgewater Courier News
New studies of the Green Brook Flood Control Project and the renewal of a Rahway River flood study are included in a bill recently passed by the House of Representatives.
The original Green Brook Flood Control plan called for the construction of detention basins on the Watchung Ridge in Berkeley Heights to slow the flow of water off the mountain into the Green Brook and then the Raritan River through Plainfield, North Plainfield, Green Brook, Dunellen, Middlesex Borough and Bound Brook before emptying into the Raritan River.
However, that plan may no longer be viable, according to Raymond Murray, chairman of the Green Brook Flood Control Commission.
“We want to take a good look at what can be done,” he said.
