Wedgewood Brook is a tributary of Woodbridge River, located within Woodbrige Proper, Middlesex County, New Jersey, U.S.
The twin culvert size at the railroad crossing just downstream from Barron Avenue is 4x4 feet; this leads to severe upstream flooding.
[2] When the Sandy came, there was a combination of tidal and fluvial flooding; it was "characterized as a tsunami-like water wall," destroying adjoining homes.
[3] After Sandy, using money from the New Jersey Buyout Program,[4] Woodbridge bought out and demolished many residential properties in the flood hazard areas.
As people move out of flood hazard areas, they will replaced by a "floodplain forest of native trees, shrubs and grass.