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Actually - the Glenwood section used to be a lake... water table there is very high, and generally high in much of Short Hills.
Flooded basements can occure due to run off from above or rising water table from below... latter is a bigger problem in much of the short hills neighborhoods as the SH water table is generally high. But that's just general.. depth can be different on a house by house basis depending on many factors...
LOL, when was it a lake? Actually the Short Hills water table is not high .Most flooded basements in Shorts Hills are do to the foundations being old and not water proofed . Again the rents bought the house in 61(it was 94 years old then) and had it for 38 years and had two flooded basements ...not what I would call a flood zone.
LOL, when was it a lake? Actually the Short Hills water table is not high .Most flooded basements in Shorts Hills are do to the foundations being old and not water proofed . Again the rents bought the house in 61(it was 94 years old then) and had it for 38 years and had two flooded basements ...not what I would call a flood zone.
A realtor told me! And as I type that I realize the error of my ways (no offense to realtors).
A realtor told me! And as I type that I realize the error of my ways (no offense to realtors).
Realtor was correct; there was a lake where Glenwood Drive and Millburn Ave intersect (on the north side), and another one where the Short Hills Garden Apartments are. The whole area south of Millburn Ave was pretty swampy. This was on the 1921 maps; it's modern looking by 1947.
Realtor was correct; there was a lake where Glenwood Drive and Millburn Ave intersect (on the north side), and another one where the Short Hills Garden Apartments are. The whole area south of Millburn Ave was pretty swampy. This was on the 1921 maps; it's modern looking by 1947.
No he wasn't.
..............yes there were ponds around in the extreme early days as this map and link will tell you put the area in question was never a lake. Pretty sure the Mill as in Millburn was on the Passaic River.
Millburn was created as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 20, 1857, from portions of Springfield Township, when Union County was formed.[24] Earlier known variously as Milltown, Millville, Rum Brook and Vauxhall, the name "Millburn" was adopted before the township was established. The township's name derives from the burn (Scottish for a stream) that powered mills in the area.
Most of the mills were on the West Branch of the Rahway, since the Passaic goes nowhere near Millburn. Your map shows both of the lakes in question (I guess "pond" might be a better word) -- one is under the name Wm Godwell, that's where the Short Hills Garden Apartments are. And one is on the lower left of the map near the name C.B. Lewis, that's where Glenwood Ave meets Millburn Ave.
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