{"id":14442,"date":"2019-03-27T02:21:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T06:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=14442"},"modified":"2019-03-27T03:38:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T07:38:20","slug":"there-could-be-32-days-of-24-7-noise-while-the-brick-mua-drills-new-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2019\/03\/there-could-be-32-days-of-24-7-noise-while-the-brick-mua-drills-new-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"There Could be 32 Days of 24\/7 Noise While the Brick MUA Drills New Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority, BTMUA (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

It could be a noisy few weeks for some Brick residents, at the Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority drills new wells which must be continuously constructed 24 hours a day for 16 days each.<\/p>\n

Blame it on the state, officials said. New Jersey is requiring the BTMUA to drill two \u201cobservation wells\u201d that will connect to two different aquifers. The purpose of the wells will be to ensure the quality of the township\u2019s water supply meets state standards through continuous monitoring.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can\u2019t stop at night, or even just for an hour,\u201d explained Councilman Paul Mummolo, because of technical constraints.<\/p>\n

The two wells will be dug separately, but both will be dug at the BTMUA campus at 1551 Route 88. The MUA\u2019s contractor will burrow 1,600 feet and 1,800 feet, respectively, underground to reach the two aquifers.<\/p>\n

The township council unanimously voted in favor of suspending the township\u2019s noise ordinance to allow the project to go forward. While Mummolo said estimates are for each project to last 16 days, the noise ordinance waiver covers the period of time from April 1 through July 3. The two wells cannot be dug simultaneously, he said.<\/p>\n

The BTMUA complex fronts the highway and an empty plot of land, but is neighbored by residential housing on either side \u2013 the Laurel Brook community to the west and several streets surrounding Forge Pond Road to the east. Mummolo said the MUA\u2019s contractor will set up a physical sound barrier to control the noise.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to create quite a bit of noise,\u201d Mummolo acknowledged, but \u201conce they start, they can\u2019t stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It could be a noisy few weeks for some Brick residents, at the Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority drills new wells which must be continuously constructed 24 hours a day for 16 days each. Blame it on the state, officials said. New Jersey is requiring the BTMUA to drill two \u201cobservation wells\u201d that will connect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,1713,269,3652,3651],"class_list":["post-14442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-brick-township-municipal-utilities-authority","tag-btmua","tag-drilling","tag-observation-well"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/btmua.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-3KW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}