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Flood prevention project in Bound Brook keeps Hurricane Irene from becoming ...

BOUND BROOK — Surrounded by the Raritan River, the Delaware & Raritan Canal and two brooks, people who live and work in Bound Brook dread hurricane season. Memories are still fresh of 1999, when Hurricane Floyd decimated the downtown business district, left two people dead and hundreds of others stranded or in evacuation shelters.

So Hurricane Irene posed a crucial test for this water-weary community in Somerset County. Would the partially completed Army Corps of Engineers flood mitigation project, driven Floyd's devastation and followed by a 2007 Nor'easter, protect the borough from another nightmare?

Even though there was flooding, business owners, residents and government officials agreed yesterday that Irene could have been far more punishing without the newly-installed flood gates and pumping stations. Where Floyd sent floodwaters rising 13 feet or higher, water levels from Irene climbed just one to three feet high — about five feet in limited spots — said Paul McCall, Somerset County’s director of public works.

"It wasn’t a success keeping all the water out of Bound Brook, but it completely minimized the water that did get in," he said.

Bound Brook Mayor Carey Pilato gave the flood mitigation project "a high passing grade."

"The (Raritan) river level was at or maybe more than Hurricane Floyd. The difference here is because of the flood control project, there are only pockets of places flooding in Bound Brook," Pilato said. In 1999, "we almost instantaneously lost one quarter of the town."

Col. John Boulé of the Army Corps acknowledged that while project helped prevent major flooding, it also failed in some ways.

"This system was made for a 150-year storm, and this was a 500-year flood event. The magnitude of the storm, of course, was going to overpower the system," Boulé said during a tour of the flooded areas.

Another problem, he said, was that water unexpectedly seeped through the bottom of one of the closed flood gates. The fact that the project is not complete, was also a problem, he said, noting that flood gates have yet to be installed near the rail line.

Acupuncture and PMS | Chiropractor and Pilates Center ... - Live Well

By  Charles Yarborough, L.Ac. (Live Well Acupuncturist)

No one ever said being a woman was easy.  And for many women, one of the chief biological challenges is PMS.  Recognizing this fact centuries ago, the Chinese developed a highly specialized tradition of women’s medicine.  In fact, an often-repeated maxim of Chinese medicine is, “To treat one woman equals treating five men.” This is not to suggest that treating men is necessarily a simple matter but rather that the added dimension of menstrual function serves to clarify a diagnosis.  Because it presents an additional set of signs and symptoms, the menstrual cycle shows how the patient is doing and what direction her acupuncture therapy should take.

When diagnosing a woman, the acupuncturist will consider tongue color and coating, volume and color of flow and the quality of any discomforts she may feel, as well as the times those discomforts occur.  Diet, digestion and lifestyle are also considered, along with mental and emotional factors.  The acupuncturist also evaluates six pulses along the radial artery.  Men and women are further differentiated in Chinese medicine by these pulses.  Says the ancient text, The Huang Ti Nei Jing :  “A woman’s right pulse indicates disorder and her left indicates order: a man’s left pulse indicates disorder and his right indicates order.”