Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Union Beach, NJ

Union Beach is a borough on Raritan Bay at the northern Jersey Shore in Monmouth County, formed by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 16, 1925, from portions of Raritan Township (now Hazlet), based on a referendum held on April 16, 1925.

A 100-acre farm owned by the Poole family since the days of the American Revolutionary War became the site of the Union Subdivision in 1908 after the Central Railroad of New Jersey arrived, and developer Charles Carr renamed the area called East Point Beach Estates to Union Beach in 1920.

Union Beach's population was 5,723 in the 2020 census, living in 2,036 households, continuing a decline from 6,649 in 2000 and 6,245 in 2010.

The compact borough covers just 1.88 square miles at an elevation of only about 3 feet, and its restored bayfront beach offers views of the New York City skyline and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, with beachfront restoration work carried out in phases by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

A black-stone monument to the victims of the September 11 attacks, dedicated in June 2002, is positioned so visitors look past it toward the exact spot where the World Trade Center towers were once visible from the borough.

Hurricane Sandy devastated Union Beach on October 29, 2012: the borough's own recovery report found about 90 percent of its land flooded, and 62 homes were completely missing after the storm, about 400 homes took on more than 6 feet of water, and the borough lost 14 police cars, three ambulances and four fire trucks.

Union Beach Memorial School, the borough's only school, was inundated by Sandy's storm surge while serving as an evacuation center, destroying hundreds of library books and thousands of dollars of instruments before volunteers completed repairs later that school year.

Union Beach was part of the Bayshore Regional Strategic Plan, a nine-municipality effort to reinvigorate the Raritan Bayshore's traditional downtowns, maritime history and coastline.