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Oil Tank Removal in Ewing, NJ
In Ewing the excavator hits rock, and that changes the job. It changes the excavation, and it changes what happens if the tank turns out to have leaked.
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The ground
Ewing sits northwest of the Fall Line on Newark Basin sedimentary rock. Depth to bedrock is frequently shallow, and two things follow from that.
First, tanks in Ewing tend to have been set shallow, because whoever buried them in 1955 hit the same rock. That is good news, because it means less excavation.
Second, when contamination is found, it does not sit in a neat pool. Fractured rock routes it, and bounding a plume takes more sampling than it does in sand. Budget for the possibility of extra samples rather than being surprised by them.
Where the tanks are
Ewingville, Prospect Heights, Fernwood, Braeburn Heights and Glendale are the post-war worker housing built for the state offices and the GM plant, and they are the densest tank inventory in the township. West Trenton is older and mixed. The Wilburtha and River Road edge along the Delaware is low ground.
Water
The Shabakunk Creek, the Little Shabakunk, Gold Run and Jacobs Creek all cut through the township, and the Delaware floodplain runs the western edge near Scudders Falls. Where the water table is high, the fill methods may not be acceptable, because a filled tank can float. If you are on low ground, assume removal rather than fill until a contractor confirms otherwise.
Ewing's stock is genuinely oil-heritage
These are pre-1970 houses built when oil was the default, then converted. If you bought a house here and nobody has ever mentioned a tank, that is not evidence there is not one.
Ewing Township Code Enforcement and Construction Office
1666 Pennington Road, Ewing, NJ 08618
Phone (609) 883-2900, fax (609) 406-1384
Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:00pm
The office prefers electronic contact and uses the SDL online portal for inspections. For an inspection by email they ask for the permit number, the inspection type, three preferred dates, and the property address.
Construction Official Jim Megna (x7017). Assistant Construction Official Mike Wright (x7611). Fire Subcode Official Rich Soltis (x7672), which is the one that matters for a tank, because the fire subcode official does the review and the inspection.
Confirm the current permit fee with the office when you file. Fees are set by the township and are not published on the construction page.
The question Ewing homeowners ask
“The excavator hit rock at four feet and stopped. Is the job done?”
Not necessarily. If the tank is out and the soil under it sampled clean, yes. If they hit refusal before reaching the bottom of the tank, or before they could sample beneath it, no. Ask specifically whether samples were taken from beneath the tank at the deepest point of the excavation, because that is the sample that matters.
Oil tank removal in other Mercer County towns
TrentonHamilton TownshipLawrence TownshipPrincetonHopewell TownshipHopewell BoroughPenningtonWest WindsorEast WindsorHightstownRobbinsville
For what is true across every town, the Fall Line geology, the state rules that never change, and the full list of all twelve municipalities, see oil tank removal across Mercer County.
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