7-822: Green Brook Park is a 100-acre (40 ha) county park along the Green Brook , a tributary of the Raritan River , in the city of Plainfield in Union County, New Jersey . Designed by the Olmsted Brothers , it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 2004, for its significance in landscape architecture. It extends into the borough of North Plainfield in Somerset County . The Union County Park Commission
14-592: The 1930s. Green Brook Green Brook is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States . The Green Brook rises in the Watchung Mountains at an elevation of 410 feet in Free Acres, (the border of Berkeley Heights and Watchung). It flows northeast, forming a border between Union and Somerset Counties. It then turns south and flows through a valley in
21-584: The Green Brook basin and parts of the Raritan River basin in Bound Brook , partially located in a natural floodplain of the Raritan River at the junction of the Green Brook and Raritan River. The project has languished for decades due to a lack of federal funding and interest. Hurricane Floyd in 1999 caused additional property damage and deaths in the Green Brook basin, renewing interest in
28-535: The Watchung Mountains. The Blue Brook joins it at Seeley’s Pond. It continues on a southwestern flow through Plainfield/North Plainfield. It flows underground between Watchung Ave and Madison Ave. The Stony Brook joins it in Green Brook Park . It continues on a southwestern flow through Dunellen/Greenbrook, forming a border between Middlesex and Somerset Counties. The Bonygutt Brook joins it at
35-651: The intersection of Warrenville Road in Middlesex. The Bound Brook joins it in the northwest corner of Mountain View Park in Middlesex. It continues flowing southwest and turns south before the Ambrose Brook joins it at the intersection of Lincoln Blvd. in Middlesex. It completes its journey by flowing into the Raritan River in Middlesex/Bound Brook at an elevation of 18 feet. It gives its name to
42-530: The township of Green Brook , New Jersey. The Green Brook Flood Control Project in Somerset County in central New Jersey was first proposed in the early 1970s in the wake of two major floods in June 1971 and August 1973, which caused millions of dollars of property damage and several deaths along the Green Brook and Raritan Rivers. The proposed flood control measures are expected to help control flooding in
49-488: Was established in 1921 and hired the Olmsted Brothers, formed by the sons of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted , to design a county park system, including this one along the Green Brook. The initial park development from Clinton Avenue to West End Avenue started in 1922. Along Park Drive, the area is pastoral, with a forested area north of the Green Brook. The park was expanded east of West End Avenue during
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