Scotch Plains Meets State Stormwater Rules, Broader Flood Strategy Seems Seems Unclear
Background Scotch Plains sits within the Green Brook watershed, a region that has been the focus of federal flood mitigation planning since 1986 through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The town has been hit by at least three major flood events in the last ten years:. -August 2015 -September 2021- Hurricane Ida -July 14, 2025 Scope of Review The...
The Future of Turf Fields in New Jersey
It’s interesting, sometimes, the things you find when you’re looking for something else… the part to the broken item you finally threw away a month before, the twenty in the pocket of a jacket you haven’t worn for a year, or dozens of tiny paper cutouts of penguins with hockey sticks drawn by children when they were young, and stashed...
Scotch Plains-Fanwood: A Look at Student Growth, Proficiency, Aptitude and Environmental Indicators
2018 through 2024 About a month back, someone on the Scotch Plains forum asked about how the school district is doing academically. I finally had a chance to dig into the data—sorry for the delay, it’s been a busy stretch here. A few quick notes before getting into it: There’s no state testing data for the 2019–2020 and 2020–2021 school...
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