West Amwell Times

At the 8/19/2026 West Amwell Township Committee meeting, one of the more curious discussions was about the format of Meeting Minutes. Specifically, the Township Attorney did not just advocate for a severely truncated form of minutes, but she actually railed at length against people having statements read into the record verbatim. This was a truly bizarre incident, because Attorney Quiñones Perez confused the living hell out of everyone. Even her advocates on the Township Comm

The next West Amwell Township Committee Meeting is scheduled for September 2nd, 2026, 7pm at the Township Municipal Building. The agenda is shown below. For the full PDF of the agenda click here. Items of interest include: Ordinance 11, 2026 "Stormwater Quality" Introduction. This is a continuation of the discussions about the Township adopting ordinances to align with the NJDEP's new storm water quality standards. I have no idea why this is called "Stormwater Quality" and no

West Amwell, NJ August 27, 2026 More flash flooding alerts went out today, and while vicious storm cells passed through Trenton and North East into central and northern NJ, West Amwell was largely spared. Except the North Western part of that storm just clipped us. We had another downpour for about 15-20 minutes as a result. Above is a screen capture of the storm radar at the time. Hewitt Road is located at the blue markers on the map. You can't see it here but storm was mov

Back in the late 1980s, a court case was set to shake up environmental law in NJ, and to pave the way for new laws to better protect state residents from environmental damage from property owners, while also ensuring basic protections for those owners innocent of wrong doing. The case was VI-Concrete Company V. State of New Jersey, Department of Environmental Protection. The core dispute occurred when the New Jersey DEP ordered VI-Concrete to install monitoring wells on its

The South Hunterdon Regional School District (SHRSD)'s August 2026 meeting was held last night at the high school. I wasn't there, and based on the livestream you weren't either. Here's the AI take on the meeting.

We've always wanted to own water front property, and also have always enjoyed adventure sports like white water rafting and kayaking. Thanks to 25 Hewitt Road, we can live our dream without even having to move! We propose that 25 Hewitt road be renamed the Great South Hunterdon Inland Sea and White Water Kingdom. Maybe we can get Big Bear Gear to offer kayaking and log flume adventures. All kidding aside, the property at 25 Hewitt Road continues to deteriorate, and now even m

The Township Comnmittee Meeting last night went on for over four hours. A wide range of topics were discussed, but some key controversies dominated the conversation. We are trying an experiment with AI on this one, based on our video stream of the meeting. The following is a meeting summary generated by an AI video transcript processing tool. We will be following up with a raw transcript of the meeting as well. Please let us know what you think of this kind of summary - good,

The Livestream for tonight's Township Committee Meeting at 7pm at the municipal building will be available at the below link: https://www.youtube.com/live/6Qc7AmOPgnQ It does not show on the agenda yet, but the Mayor has indicated via email that potential 25 Hewitt Road remedies and actions will discussed tonight as well.

We will be live streaming the Land use Board Meeting tonight, 8/18/2026, at 7pm. A direct link to the Youtube stream is available here: https://youtube.com/live/oax5JrnohqE For reference this is the agenda.

With more storms forecast for tomorrow, including potentially extended torrential rain, Hewitt Road folks are nervous. There is no indication 25 Hewitt Road is ready for it. Some stormwater-theater occurred last week after the super-silt failed from the last storm. I call it theater for a simple reason: there was a lot of activity and stuff going on on the property, but little if any of it seems to be well-thought out, and it certainly doesn't look any more secure than it was

The Land Use Board will be meeting Tuesday, August 18th at 7pm at the Municipal Building. The Township Committee Meeting will be held the following night August 19th, also at 7pm at the Municipal Building. We will be live-streaming both meetings from the Municipal Building, links to follow. Land Use Board Meeting The Land Use Board meeting agenda is available here, and is also reproduced below. There's a fair amount going on here. Of most interest to the public: A "revote" on

Last night, members of the Township Committee, Open Space, Land Use Board, Environmental Commission, and Ag Advisory Committee came together in a workshop to talk about potential tree cutting ordinances. The full video of the meeting is available below. https://www.youtube.com/live/NNOHdj6Bp38 To set the context of the meeting, recently the New Jersey State Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) mandated that municipalities enact some sort of ordinance protecting tree

We all got these alerts around 3pm today in West Amwell. A nasty little storm cell was heading straight for us from the South. Despite having no sleep and having other issues to deal with, I headed out the door with dread. This is what I saw. Warning: There is extensive profanity as I am cursing out this situation in realtime. This is the bottom of our driveway. The brownish color of the water tells the tale. This is not regular runoff. This is 25 Hewitt Road Runoff. Moving u

This is the live-stream page for tonight's joint meeting on potential tree management ordinances in conjunction to recent State-mandated storm water management changes. The livestream will start at 6:55pm, the meeting is set to begin at 7:00pm.

West Amwell Township government is having a storm water management & tree cutting ordinance special workshop involving a large portion of the overall municipal government at 7pm tomorrow night, Wednesday August 5th at the West Amwell Township Municipal Building. The meeting will be including: The Township Committee Environmental Commission Land Use Board Open Space Committee Agricultural Advisory Committee The purpose of the workshop is to discuss potential tree-cutting and f

We have been fortunate that the last couple of storms missed West Amwell and swung North and South of our location. That luck ran out last night. West Amwell took a direct hit from overnight storms, with it being particularly bad between 3am and 5am. Our poor dogs were up all night. We got up at 6:15 to survey the damage on Hewitt Road from our problem child, 25 Hewitt Road. The tl;dr - the incomplete silt fence system failed at the corners, precisely as many people had predi

Today we received the Stormwater Newsletter that has been discussed at the last several Township Committee Meetings. This is a six page snail-mailed newsletter that is in full color on heavy stock that went out to every household. You can see the online version here. We are conflicted by it. On the one hand, storm water management has obviously become an important topic in the Township. On the other hand, a six page snail-mailed newsletter seems to be ill-advised for a number

The monthly South Hunterdon Regional School District (SHRSD) Board of Education meeting is tonight at 7pm at the High School. The agenda for the meeting is available here. The meeting is being live streamed as well. Go here for the livestream at 7pm. Given that we are in mid-summer, things are very slow with the district right now, so not much to report. The turf field has a change order, increasing the costs to an eye-popping $1,724,979.40 in total. The change order totals a

On Tuesday, July 22, 2026, we toured the perimeter of the site to get a handle on the mud and storm water situation, see the state of the silt fence(s), and how the area will handle another heavy rain storm. First though we have to address the elephant in the room - or rather, the three of them. The original failing silt fence has a twin installed paralelling it, and late in the afternoon they began installing a third , heavy duty"super silt" fence. We hope these are temporar

Not all storm water mitigations work We've been documenting the on-going issues on Hewitt Road for awhile now. Two weeks ago we documented storm water issues with the new culverts under the three (!) driveways installed at the site. Last week we showed two of the three driveways being ripped up in an attempt to mitigate the storm water issues. We wrote at the time "It is not clear what exactly Mr. Pangea hoped to achieve by removing the culvert pipes but leaving the rest of