Took a ride a while ago. The Raritan is as bad as I've ever seen it. Looking south from the bridge in Raritan it's flooded as far as you can see. Rt's 206 and 202 are closed in Hillsborough and Branchburg respectively, as well as Milltown Rd in Bridgewater in the area of North Branch Park. The park in under water and the river has crossed Milltown Rd. Only the second time in many , many years that has happened, according to an old timer that lives there.
Raritan River really bad!
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Took a ride a while ago. The Raritan is as bad as I've ever seen it. Looking south from the bridge in Raritan it's flooded as far as you can see. Rt's 206 and 202 are closed in Hillsborough and Branchburg respectively, as well as Milltown Rd in Bridgewater in the area of North Branch Park. The park in under water and the river has crossed Milltown Rd. Only the second time in many , many years that has happened, according to an old timer that lives there.
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Pathman if heading north from Ringoes can you get up to the Wawa or is it closed before there on 202. I want to check some cams.
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I know the upper South Branch Raritan where I live is about as bad as it ever has been. It is currently off the chart on the USGS gauge and many feet over flood stage way up in its headwaters, so I can only imagine downstream. We got 6 1/2" of rain by early this morning and it hasn't stopped yet, so expect flooding downstream to get worse before it gets better, sorry to say.
The Musky where I work is nearly 3' over its banks but looks to have spiked and is now slightly dropping. And that is with the State dropping the Lake Hopatcong by as much as 6" prior to the storm by opening the dam gates wide open.
The Musky where I work is nearly 3' over its banks but looks to have spiked and is now slightly dropping. And that is with the State dropping the Lake Hopatcong by as much as 6" prior to the storm by opening the dam gates wide open.
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Never see the South Branch so bad thru long valley into middle valley.Lake Hopatchong is just about over the new wall they built by Lakes End Marina
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Most rivers will not crest for awhile, alot of water is still draining into feeder creeks and such.
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And it's still raining here in the upper watershed (South Branch).
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Sorry for the delay Ultra, had to bail out the kids Jeep which took on water also!
No, 202 is closed in Branchburg where the river goes under it (now over it!) by the I-Hop. That's just before you hit Milltown Rd. in Bridgewater where the Wegmans is located.
No, 202 is closed in Branchburg where the river goes under it (now over it!) by the I-Hop. That's just before you hit Milltown Rd. in Bridgewater where the Wegmans is located.
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You guys should see what the Raritan River already looks like in New Brunswick, & that's where all your water is heading.
"At 6:30 a.m., Middlesex County officials had placed a ban on all non-essential traffic. “New Brunswick is like an island right now,” said Chris Conley, deputy public information officer for Middlesex County’s Office of Emergency Management."
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/08/nj_storm_update_one_woman_foun.html
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