The Stavola asphalt plant on Chambers Bridge Road in Brick Township has proposed the demolition of portions of the site, the construction of new buildings, a road network and storage silos to replace the exposed piles of material currently present there.
Behind the scenes, the matter was scheduled to be heard by the township’s Zoning Board of Adjustment on several occasions over the past year but none occurred. Last Monday, a formal notice was published announcing that the matter would be heard by the board at its Dec. 3, 2025 meeting.
The Stavola asphalt plant, Brick, N.J., Fall 2025. (Photo: Shorebeat)
Shorebeat obtained the plans for the project by way of a request from the township, which detailed the proposed site plan and also included a copy of a letter from local land use attorney Edward Liston, notifying the board that he had been hired as special counsel for the Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority to formally object to the application. Similar projects have been proposed at the asphalt plant before, the most significant of which resulted in a denial by the board in 2005. Stavola then sued the township but ultimately lost, with the court upholding the board’s decision. On several occasions over the following 20 years, plans have been revived, and on all occasions have been met with objections by the BTMUA, which has argued expanding the plant could have negative affects on the Metedeconk River.
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The plant is located within the Rural Residential zone, however the property on which it is located – which abuts the municipal complex to the east, the river to the north, and the Garden State Parkway interchange to the south – has been used for industrial purposes dating back to the 1950s, making its use grandfathered in since it pre-existed the township’s zoning ordinance. In 2024, Stavola Industries, based in Tinton Falls, was sold to Arcosa, a major national construction engineering firm based in Dallas, TX.
The plan before the board, which will be detailed further at the upcoming hearing, consists of demolishing most of the current plant which produces hot-mix “batch” asphalt, then replacing it with newer equipment. Much of the work centers on the road network within the site, which would see the current gravel pathways.
“This results in dust and silt getting kicked up every time a truck circulates the property,” the company said in an environmental impact statement, embedded beneath this story.
The Stavola asphalt plant, Brick, N.J., Fall 2025. (Photo: Shorebeat)
The Stavola asphalt plant, Brick, N.J., Fall 2025. (Photo: Shorebeat)
The gravel road network would be replaced with asphalt roads, part of a total of 3.21 acres of “motor vehicle surface.” Additionally, the company would build 3,369 square feet of new buildings, including an administrative suite, truck scale and other features. As it currently exists, much of the materials at the site are laid out in exposed piles, which would be eliminated in favor of four storage silos that would stand 50-feet tall, with an eave of 75-feet, necessitating one of the primary variances requested under the application. The silos would allow for the storage of about 600 tons of asphalt. The improvements in efficiency would allow Stavola to produce more asphalt in significantly shorter time periods.
The new burner, which produces asphalt, would be a sealed system, as opposed to the current open system. The application also calls for the use of recycled asphalt pavement.
The BTMUA has long opposed expansion of the site since a public water treatment plant is located just a half-mile from the site. The plant itself borders a branch of the Metedeconk River, from which the BTMUA sources drinking water.
The Stavola asphalt plant, Brick, N.J., Fall 2025. (Photo: Shorebeat)
The Stavola asphalt plant, Brick, N.J., Fall 2025. (Photo: Shorebeat)
According to the environmental impact statement, the expansion of the plant would incorporate above-ground infiltration basins into the layout of the facility for stormwater management. Above-ground stormwater would be “collected by the proposed conveyance system and routed to an above-ground infiltration basin” where it would ultimately be “released at a controlled rate through an outlet control structure” and flow to the existing stormwater basin “and ultimately to the Metedeconk River via overland flow.” Likewise, several subdrainage areas would also flow toward the river.
The same report notes, however, that the plant as it currently is constructed also has its stormwater runoff flowing to the river, and the improvements in basin technology could mitigate some environmental concerns.
The application is scheduled to be heard at the zoning board’s Dec. 3, 2025 meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. at the township municipal complex, 401 Chambers Bridge Road.
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