Pine Brook, NJ
Roofing in Pine Brook, NJ, Between Two Rivers and a Flood Gauge
Pine Brook sits on flat ground between the Passaic and Rockaway rivers, and a National Weather Service record for the Passaic at Pine Brook counts 77 floods since 1903. Rain makes gutters, downspouts and attic stains the first things to watch. If one of them shows up, start with gutter repair and call (862) 430-2399.
Next door
Rockaway on one side, Passaic on the other
Wikipedia describes Pine Brook as bounded on the east by the Passaic River, across from Fairfield Township. The Rockaway River bounds it on the south and west, across from East Hanover and from Parsippany and Lake Hiawatha. U.S. Route 46 runs through the middle, and Interstate 80 has a partial interchange at Exit 48.
The village center sits on the Pine Brook Flats. Over the Rockaway, in Parsippany-Troy Hills, Lake Hiawatha roofing covers the neighborhood on the far bank.
The houses here
The houses here
Pine Brook is part of Montville Township, so its housing-age figures are the township's. Of 8,272 homes, 1,739 were built before 1960 and 3,190 before 1970, and about 55 percent date from 1970 through 1999. Wikipedia gives Pine Brook 5,675 residents in 2020, a ZIP code of 07058 and an elevation of 200 feet. Housing counts for the village alone were not available, so the township table is the nearest published guide to the age of the houses.
Local numbers
What the Pine Brook gauge has logged
A National Weather Service report on the Passaic River at Pine Brook gives a flood stage of 19 feet and counts 77 floods since 1903. The highest crest, 24.12 feet, came on 30 August 2011, during Hurricane Irene. The remnants of Tropical Storm Lee pushed the river to 21.73 feet on 9 September 2011, the ninth highest on the list.
The report was written in January 2020 and its last listed flood was 15 May 2019. A crest measures a watershed of 349 square miles at the gauge, not any single street, but it shows how wet the ground gets around the roofs beside it.
Around Montville
Before you call
Keep the street address, what you noticed and the roof's age close by, then call (862) 430-2399. If you rent, your landlord decides on roof work, so that conversation comes first. Served: Montville, Towaco, Pine Brook, Boonton and Lake Hiawatha.
