The Latest Township Updates

updated: 11:24 a.m. and 3:15 p.m.

The following is the latest information released Saturday morning by Lt. Peter Eakley of the Millburn Police Department and the Office of Emergency Management, posted here in its entirety:

1) Millburn Township OEM met with representatives of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), New Jersey State Police Office of Emergency Management, and the Essex County Sheriffs Office – Office of Emergency Management this morning and took a tour of the to inspect the damage by Hurricane Irene. FEMA stated that individual assistance (IA) and Small Business Administration (SBA) personnel will be on the ground within the week to start to offer eligible assistance, including low interests loans. As this information becomes formalized we will ensure that information is readily available to our and businesses.

2)  Since , the bottle water distribution center at South Mountain School will be closed today at 1:30 p.m.  New Jersey American Water Company intends to move most of the remaining water to people in Somerset County whose homes are still underwater.

3) We are still asking our residents to sprinklers for the next week to preserve/increase pressure in the New Jersey American Water Companies distribution system. The Millburn Fire Department will still maintain the

4) Power is still off to the Chatham Road area, South Terrace, Montview Road, Lake Road, East Lane and Lakeview Road Area. We have been on the phone with the electric company. stated they are confident the power will be on later today, but we have all heard this before and do not share in their confidence. JCP&L mapping programs state that there are 957 customers still without power in our Township.

5) The following roads are still closed:

• Intersection of East Lane and Lake Road is still closed – low hanging wires de-energized
• Lakeview Avenue between West Road and Route 124 – low hanging wires de-energized
• Brookside Drive between Glen Avenue and South Orange Avenue (because of debris removal)

3:15 p.m. update from Lt. Eakley, of the Millburn Police and Office of Emergency Management, in its entirety:

The Following is the list of known major power outages in the Township of Millburn. Jersey Central Power and Lighting Company have been notified of all these locations, multiple times.

They are unable to provide meaningful information on not only when power restoration will occur, but also when their service crews will arrive on scene.

Millburn OEM will continue to apply whatever pressure we can. At 1500 hours, Millburn Police Patrol Division reports that not one JCPL crew can be found working in the Township.

Once again, the frustration level of our friends and neighbors is felt by this municipality and we will be applying pressure via all avenues to ensure that JCPL is held accountable for their response and recovery efforts during this storm.

 At this juncture (3 September 2011 at 1500 hours / 3:00 PM) JCPL reports that 909 customers in the Township of Millburn are still without power. We are unsure of how valid that information is, as many of our residents have received robocalls from JCPL stating their power has been restored, when it has not been.

Power is still off to the following areas:  

• Chatham Road area
• South Terrace area
• Montview Road area
• Lake Road area
• East Lane area
• Lakeview Road area
• Park Road / Circle area
• Fairfield Drive area
• Fairfield Terrace area

  The following roads are still closed:

•   Intersection of East Lane and Lake Road is still closed – low hanging wires de-energized

•  Lakeview Road between West Road and Route 124, - low hanging wires de-energized

• Brookside Drive between Glen Avenue and South Orange Avenue (because of debris removal)