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Board extracts concessions on truck scheduling and routing after testimony on concentrated media deliveries
Summary
Engineers and operations staff said granular‑activated‑carbon changeouts drive periods of concentrated truck traffic (20–25 trucks in a week roughly every six weeks); the applicant agreed to contractual and operational conditions to stagger deliveries, limit operations to daytime weekdays, and route new truck traffic via Edison roadways rather than through residential Fairview Avenue.
Middlesex Water and its engineers told the board that replacement of granular activated carbon (GAC) media will produce concentrated truck activity: the project includes ten large contactor tanks whose media are changed out on a staggered schedule, producing a period of roughly 20–25 truck deliveries condensed into a single week about every six weeks and otherwise an average of about one truck per day. Witnesses explained the rationale: each of the ten contactors will be taken offline and reloaded in turn so the plant maintains capacity.
The traffic expert, John Rea, reviewed a one‑day count and told the board the intersection of the shared driveway and Cedar Lane operates at acceptable levels of service; he concluded the incremental peak‑hour impact (roughly two additional peak‑hour trips) is negligible for signal operations. Rea and the applicant agreed to routing and timing measures the board requested: require vendor contract language to stagger deliveries, limit truck arrivals to 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday, avoid Cedar Lane/HIGHLAND PARK residential routing for new media deliveries by routing via Plainfield/Kilmer/Cedar in Edison, and adopt on‑site gate and camera procedures so trucks queue on private property rather than Cedar Lane. "It's a negligible impact," traffic expert John Rea said of the projected weekday deliveries.
Board members said those concessions and an enforceable contract clause will be included as conditions before construction access is allowed. They also discussed enforcement mechanisms—complaints to the zoning officer and municipal police for out‑of‑hours or non‑compliant truck movements.
