{"id":2332,"date":"2018-09-13T01:38:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T05:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2018-09-13T01:38:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T05:38:26","slug":"flood-prone-road-to-be-raised-in-toms-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/09\/flood-prone-road-to-be-raised-in-toms-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood-Prone Road to be Raised in Toms River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2333\" style=\"width: 846px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2333\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-13-at-1.37.07-AM.png\" alt=\"Pumpshire Road (Credit: Google Maps)\" width=\"836\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-13-at-1.37.07-AM.png 836w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-13-at-1.37.07-AM-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-13-at-1.37.07-AM-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-13-at-1.37.07-AM-830x420.png 830w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-13-at-1.37.07-AM-640x324.png 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-13-at-1.37.07-AM-681x345.png 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 836px) 100vw, 836px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pumpshire Road (Credit: Google Maps)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Toms River officials have awarded a contract for the elevation of a roadway that has been prone to flooding.<\/p>\n<p>The township council this week awarded a $577,013 contract to Earle Asphalt to raise Pumpshire Road, located off Fischer Boulevard. The road leads to the western shore of Silver Bay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the streets where there is severely flooding, sometimes they can be fixed and this is one of them,&#8221; said Township Administrator Don Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Guardian said the contract includes the work itself and the research to determine the optimal height of the roadway. With the elevation will come a full repaving of the road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We bring everyone together, and we see what happens if we raise it three inches, six inches, or something else,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Obviously, we can&#8217;t raise is 18 inches or two feet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An engineering firm will be hired in the beginning of 2019 to complete the design work, Guardian said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/09\/flood-prone-road-to-be-raised-in-toms-river\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toms River officials have awarded a contract for the elevation of a roadway that has been prone to flooding. The township council this week awarded a $577,013 contract to Earle Asphalt to raise Pumpshire Road, located off Fischer Boulevard. The road leads to the western shore of Silver Bay. &#8220;On the streets where there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[688,11],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","tag-pumpshire-road","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-13-at-1.37.07-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}