Holland Brook
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Holland Brook is a brook in central New Jersey, running through Readington and Branchburg. It is the last tributary of the South Branch Raritan River before it combines with the North Branch Raritan River. The brook is over seven miles in length running from its headwaters near Cushetunk Mountain[1], an extinct volcano surrounding Round Valley Reservoir, to its convergence with the South Branch Raritan River near Studdiford Drive in Branchburg. The brook is ten to twenty feet across most of its length. It changes in elevation from near three hundred and fifty feet in elevation near its headwaters to fifty feet at its convergence with the Raritan River. Holland Brook was named for the large number of early Dutch settlers in northern New Jersey.
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[edit] Greenway
The Holland Brook Greenway is a proposed five-mile greenway project in Readington and Branchburg. If both townships completed the trail, it could link another future trail on the North Branch Raritan River with the Middle School in Readington. Branchburg’s proposed section of the Greenway would fit into a larger plan and would connect with a 16-mile cross-township trail [2]. The Holland Brook Greenway trail could eventually have access to the Raritan River Greenway and the East Coast Greenway. The township of Branchburg would need to gain four additional properties to have public access from the Readington border to the Confluence Reservoir Park land along the North Branch Raritan River. A possible trail along this path would need to make minor crossings at South Branch Road (near a number of farms), Evergreen Drive (in a residential neighborhood) and the somewhat busier Old York Road. A fourth crossing over US-202, however, would need to be constructed to ensure a safe passage for bicycles or pedestrians. At-grade crossings with crosswalks would be possible at South Branch Road and Evergreen Drive and the trail could possibly go under the bridge at Old York Road. The Readington section still has several gaps in it and none of the Greenway has been built in either township [3].
[edit] Tributaries
(all tributary names unofficial)
[edit] Branchburg
- West County Creek
(Headwaters pond near 202 and Old York Rd)
- Evans Creek
(Headwaters near Old York Rd and Evans Way West)
- North Branch Naraticong
(Headwaters near Sunset View Rd in Readington)
- South Branch Naraticong
(Headwaters near Osage Court)
- Van Pelt Creek
[edit] Readington
- Witherspoon Creek
(Headwaters near Federal Lane and Witherspoon St)
- Stull Creek
- Indian Run
(Headwaters near Readington Rd)
- Columbine Creek
- North Branch Dalley Creek
(Headwaters near Lightfield Rd)
- South Branch Dalley Creek
- North Branch Hillcrest Creek
(Headwaters near Pinebank Rd)
- South Branch Hillcrest Creek
- Morning Star Creek
- North Branch Pinebank Creek
- South Branch Pinebank Creek
- Roosevelt Creek
- Cole Pond
- Cole Creek
- Arrowhead Creek
- Brier Creek
- Erskine Creek
- East Conover Creek
- West Conover Creek
- West Dreahook Creek
(Headwaters in Mt Cushetunk)
- Stevens Creek
(Headwaters near John Stevens Rd)
- East Dreahook Creek
(Headwaters near CR 523 and Readington Rd)
- Koscuiuzko Creek
- Edgewood Creek
- Dogwood Creek
- Stone Creek
(Headwaters in Mt. Cushetunk near Stone Creek Rd)
