page_title: Manville, New Jersey
section_title: Flooding problems
hierarchical_section_title: Manville, New Jersey / Flooding problems
caption_attribution_description: English: December 31, 1948 flood at Manville, New Jersey. Image showing Walter T. Sittner inspecting a gage from the gage house built into the bridge abutment during the flood of December 31, 1948 at USGS gauging station No. 01400500, Raritan River at Manville. The gauging station photo was taken on the left bank of the Raritan River at the downstream side of the North Main Street (CR-533/Finderne Avenue) bridge at Manville, and 1.4 mi upstream from Millstone River.
context_page_description: Manville is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 10,344, reflecting an increase of one person from the 10,343 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 224 from the 10,567 counted in the 1990 Census. Manville was named after the Johns-Manville Corporation, which maintained a large manufacturing facility in the borough for decades.
  Historically, many of Manville's residents are of Slavic — mostly eastern Polish and western Ukrainian descent — with many businesses and restaurants geared towards the Polish-American community located along Main Street.
  Manville was formed by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 1, 1929, subject to the results of a referendum held on April 18, 1929.
context_section_description: Manville suffers from occasional flooding events that occur after prolonged heavy rainfall events, when the Raritan River and Millstone River overflow their banks into the northern section (Raritan) and the Lost Valley section (Millstone) of the borough.  The southern parts of Main Street also suffer from the flooding, due to the presence of Royce Brook which backs up with water from the nearby Millstone River in which it empties.
  There are studies being undertaken to address the flooding problems in the Millstone River basin and Manville; however, none of the flood control ideas in the Millstone River basin have gotten beyond the initial study stages as of late 2006.
caption: Gauge inspector and the Manville gage house built into the Van Veghten's Bridge abutment during the Raritan River flood of December 31, 1948
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