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Sep. 17th, 2006 02:35 pmIf anyone's interested (as I think a few of you might be), the historic Brook Theater in Bound Brook, NJ was reopened after being flooded out after Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/somerset/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1158467362174210.xml&coll=1
(If you've never been on the nj.com website before, they ask you for your year of birth, male/female, and zip code. I've never had any problem with spam or anything from them, but if you're nervous, just put in fake information.)
As a side note, I'm glad that a piece of history was saved, but I wonder if it was practical. The Raritan River drains a huge swath of land extending as far out as Budd Lake and the Spruce Run Reservoir. That particular stretch of the river floods frequently because it comes down from the hills and hits a very flat area there. With the development of North and Central New Jersey, runoff problems are only going to get worse. I understand levees have been built, but all it takes is for the flood to rise one inch higher than them. It would be a tremendous waste to have spent all that money restoring the theater, only to have it flood out again.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/somerset/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1158467362174210.xml&coll=1
(If you've never been on the nj.com website before, they ask you for your year of birth, male/female, and zip code. I've never had any problem with spam or anything from them, but if you're nervous, just put in fake information.)
As a side note, I'm glad that a piece of history was saved, but I wonder if it was practical. The Raritan River drains a huge swath of land extending as far out as Budd Lake and the Spruce Run Reservoir. That particular stretch of the river floods frequently because it comes down from the hills and hits a very flat area there. With the development of North and Central New Jersey, runoff problems are only going to get worse. I understand levees have been built, but all it takes is for the flood to rise one inch higher than them. It would be a tremendous waste to have spent all that money restoring the theater, only to have it flood out again.
