 The Beden Brook crested at over 5 feet (1.5 m) above normal, which destroyed a bridge near Princeton.The Raritan River at Manville crested at 9.8 feet (3 m), a record that stood until the passage of Hurricane Floyd in 1999.The heavy rainfall overtopped the levee system in Zarephath, causing severe damage to the Alma White College and preventing it from opening in the fall of 1971.