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South Plainfield

noun

  1. a city in N New Jersey.


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South Plainfield, a borough of 24,000 people in Middlesex County, about 40 miles southwest of Midtown Manhattan, covers about eight and a half square miles.

But much of South Plainfield is outside the designated flood zone, and commercial and residential development has expanded steadily over the last five decades.

“When you pave over it, it can’t drain,” said Alice Tempel, South Plainfield’s recycling coordinator and environmental specialist.

In South Plainfield, at one end of the borough’s original, two-block downtown corridor stands the family-run Sherban’s Diner.

In 2015, a report by the Rutgers Cooperative Extension Water Resources Program, which analyzed 54 towns in the Raritan River basin, offered specific recommendations on ways South Plainfield could better address storm water runoff, including the addition of porous pavement and bio-retention systems like rain gardens.

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