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Oil Tank Removal in Lawrence Township, NJ
Lawrence is the one town in Mercer County whose own construction office publishes an answer to this question. Their FAQ list includes what your options are to decommission an underground oil tank. That is unusual, it is a good sign, and it means the office is used to these applications.
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The ground
Lawrence sits northwest of the Fall Line on Newark Basin rock. Expect shale and siltstone, variable depth to refusal, and the same fracture-routing behaviour as Ewing when contamination is found. Bounding a plume in fractured rock takes more sampling than it does in sand, so budget for the possibility of extra samples rather than being surprised by them.
Where the tanks are
Lawrenceville village along Main Street is the oldest stock. Slackwood and Eldridge Park near the Trenton line are dense, older and were oil. Colonial Lakelands and the 1950s and 60s tracts off Princeton Pike and Franklin Corner Road are the classic conversion-era inventory: capes and ranches with the tank in the side yard. The newer development along the Route 1 corridor and the Quakerbridge side is generally too recent to matter.
Water
The Shipetaukin Creek, the Shabakunk and the Little Shabakunk run through the township, and Colonial Lake sits in the middle of one of the older neighborhoods. Where groundwater is high the fill methods may not be acceptable, because a filled tank can float. Ask your contractor to check the water table at the tank location before quoting a fill.
Turnover is why Lawrence generates so many of these calls
It is a high-transaction town, and a tank sweep during attorney review is where most Lawrence homeowners find out they have one.
Lawrence Township Construction Code Enforcement Division
2207 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrence Township, NJ 08648
Phone 609.844.7056, fax 609.844.0282
Email preilly@lawrencetwp.com
Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm
Confirm the current permit fee and whether filing is on paper or through a portal when you call. It is also worth reading the township’s own published oil tank FAQ answer, since it is their language rather than ours.
The question Lawrence homeowners ask
“The township says I have options. Which one should I actually pick?”
If the tank is reachable, remove it, because removal is the only option that produces soil data and soil data is what the next buyer’s attorney wants. Fill in place when excavation would undermine a structure, or when the tank sits under something that cannot be taken up. The price gap between the two is usually a few hundred dollars, not thousands.
Oil tank removal in other Mercer County towns
TrentonHamilton TownshipEwing 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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