While the rain abated overnight, we are expected to have intermittent spell throughout the day today. Things got so threatening that the Tri-County Red Cross set up a shelter at the Vermeule Community Center on Green Brook Road for area residents who may have been flooded out (see here). It did not seem anyone was being flooded out in fact, the major area of flooding - from the East End diagonally down through Cedar Brook Park - seems to have been well-serviced by the flood-prevention efforts undertaken many years ago, which forced Cedar Brook to exit its tunnel under Plainfield High School with tremendous force, flooding the low-lying Cedar Brook Park, resulting in the closing of Randolph Road and Pemberton Avenue.Īlong the Green Brook, most of the potential for flooding looked to be on the North Plainfield side, with the roadway through Green Brook Park acting as a sort of levee on the Plainfield side. I drove around taking pictures of some of the conditions throughout the afternoon. Wenson-Maier is now gone, and the issue has not been brought back to the table, but Saturday's rain - with its subsequent flooding - brought it once again to mind. I rose (slightly) to her defense because the Council's questioning seemed rather unfocused - was the issue paying flood insurance AT ALL (Burney's point) or the RAPID RISE in policy premiums (Reid's point)? The Cedar Brook emerges from its tunnel under PHS on Saturday.īack in December, Plainfield's City Council raked then-DPWUD Director Jennifer Wenson-Maier over the coals about flood insurance (see my post here).
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