{"id":7971,"date":"2025-11-17T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/?p=7971"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:08:10","slug":"scoping-hearing-township-of-ocean-monmouth-county-jcpl-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/scoping-hearing-township-of-ocean-monmouth-county-jcpl-diversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Scoping Hearing&#8211;Township of Ocean, Monmouth County&#8211;Diversion for Overhead Utility Easement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/56618934-v2-jcpl-_-ocean-township-notice-of-green-acres-scoping-hearing-for-publication.pdf\">Click Here for Full Public Hearing Notice<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Applicant:<\/strong>\u00a0Township of Ocean<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parkland Name\/Location:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">South Edgemere Open Space<br \/>\nBlock 76, Lot 1<br \/>\nOcean Township, Monmouth County<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Description of Proposed Diversion: <\/strong>The Township of Ocean, in the County of Monmouth, New Jersey will be conducting a scoping hearing to discuss the proposed diversion of a 0.046-acre portion of South Edgemere Open Space (Block 76, Lot 1) in order for the Township to convey a permanent overhead utility easement to Jersey Central Power and Light Company (JCP&amp;L). This easement will allow JCP&amp;L to relocate and install Structure 189, a steel monopole with concrete foundation, as well as clear vegetation for wires (conductors) crossing Deal Lake.<\/p>\n<p>A map of the proposed diversion area may be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/exhibit-2-v-ve0107-upland-4.14.2025.pdf\">Survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:36-26.8, this scoping hearing is being held to solicit public comment on the proposed diversion prior to the Township\u2019s formal filing of a diversion application with the Department of Environmental Protection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hearing Date\/Time:<\/strong>\u00a0December 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hearing Location:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Ocean Township Municipal Building<br \/>\nPublic Meeting Room<br \/>\n399 Monmouth Road<br \/>\nOakhurst, New Jersey 07755<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Public Comments Accepted Through:\u00a0<\/strong>December 30, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Please see public notice linked above for information about how to submit written comments.\u00a0 Emailed comments to the Department are preferred.\u00a0 Please include \u201cOcean Township- JCP&amp;L\u201d in the subject line of any comments emailed to the Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Click Here for Full Public Hearing Notice Applicant:\u00a0Township of Ocean Parkland Name\/Location:\u00a0 South Edgemere Open Space Block 76, Lot 1 Ocean Township, Monmouth County Description of Proposed Diversion: The Township of Ocean, in the County of Monmouth, New Jersey will be conducting a scoping hearing to discuss the proposed diversion of a 0.046-acre portion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"dep-wlm-single.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ga-applications","category-plc-public-notices","category-scoping-hearing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7971"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7988,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971\/revisions\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}