Mayor's Update on Storm Restoration - 8/7

Storm update - 8/7/2020 - 8 PM

At today’s Mayor’s call with JCP&L, I was updated on the restoration in Washington Township. JCP&L repaired another 1987 homes today. Leaving 2156 outages remaining in town, or 30% of our homes as of 7 PM. JCP&L is still working to restore 90% of homes in this Township by Sunday but I don't have any street-level restoration data at this time. If you have an outage, or see a line down, please call 1-888-544-4877 (1-888-LIGHTSS) to report it.

We have been working to re-open our roads and many have been opened, including; schooley’s mtn road, east and west springtown, middle valley rd, flocktown, Fairview at Scenic Falls rd and green hill rds. The Township is keeping a list of the remaining road closures here: https://www.wtmorris.org/…/news/township…/road-closures.html

JCP&L has informed us that the water and ice program has been improved and products added due to the increased demand. JCP&L customers can get water and ice at the following locations:
· ACME Oak Ridge, 5774 Berkshire Valley Road, Oak Ridge
· ACME, 690 Millbrook Avenue, Randolph
· ACME, 123 E Main St Suite 1, Denville
· Shop Rite of Chester, 195 Route 206 South, Chester
· Shop Rite – Ronetco, 90 Bartley Rd Flanders, Flanders
· Kings, 88 East Main St, Mendham
· Shop Rite – Ronetco, 75 US 46 Netcong NJ
· Shop Rite , 437 Rt 46, Rockaway
· Shop Rite – Ronetco, 281-021 Rt 10, Succasunna
· Shop Rite, 314 Rt 15, Wharton

We will continue to offer cooling/shelter if requested by calling the WPTD non-emergency line 908-876-3232 ext 0. I will continue to provide the most current updates as i receive them and we will get through this.

Stay safe everyone

Mayor Matt