Home Lands to Park Lands Traditional Geocache
VerNis: This cache had a good run and brought 98 cachers to the area. Because it was an area prone to flooding, it is only appropriate that the cache container, a hollowed out piece of firewood, was washed away in what will hopefully be the LAST major flooding of the area once the flood control project is finished.
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Based on the history of this area, it can be wet and muddy, but this should be an easy cache for the family and is wheelchair accessible over grassy areas.
Parking is possible in a little "pull-off" that was once a construction entrance and it is near the cache, but parking may be better 100 yards away in the lot of a nearby convenience store where one can then re-fuel for a day of caching. During posted hours, parking is also permitted on the street near the cache.
As local Geocachers will know, this area was once the location of several homes. The low-lying area in the back, near the brook, was frequently flooded, as was an assortment of out-buildings associated with the homes. At times the homes themselves were threatened and the floods brought in 1999 by Tropical Storm Floyd completely invaded the homes as well as the surrounding area and all of nearby downtown Bound Brook.
Following the devastation of these floods, a flood control project was begun and home owners in this and a number of surrounding areas were offered buyouts. Of five or six homes that once existed along the brook in this immediate area, only one remains and the home sites have since been turned into park, Green Acres lands, or used in the building of levees and floodgates. The occasional piece of landscaping and trees planted as privacy screens are the only signs that families once lived here. The entire flood control project is expected to be completed in 2012.
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