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But once the lawyers are involved, with threat of lawsuits, I don't expect there will be answers. I assume the State has told the people affected to make no statements, say nothing at all, until court (if it goes that far). And I'm sure the newspaper people know this.

Found the official explanation, from the NJ Bureau of Dam Safety

Did you take any pictures? I would like to see what it looks like now. Looking at some year-old pictures I have, I agree, the area between the two spillways doesn't really look like a dam. (Where they cut at Lake Absegami does, especially with the trees removed. The ground drops off on both...

I heard today that it is the same contractor. They finished doing the Lake Absegami dam, and moved to the next location: Harrisville Lake (AKA Harrisville Pond).

Dam or spillway? I have been corrected by people and told that this is a dam (at Bass River SF, after tree removal): And this is the spillway. (Yeah, I know what the sign says, it's wrong.)

I haven't seen Harrisville Lake recently, but they just completed something like that at Bass River State Forest. A contractor came in and clear-cut the long dam at the end of Lake Absegami. It looks ugly... but I was told it was necessary because whatever part of the State it is that inspects...

The dump site was cleaned up today as part of the Barnegat Bay Blitz watershed cleanup event. I thought I would be there to help, but instead they had a small group of us cleaning the trash dumped at a sand pit off CR-539, and the State Park Service sent some of their maintenance people to clean...

No. Just Verizon being Verizon. If they can charge the same while providing fewer services, that's what they will do. According to the information on their web site, they are doing it (in part) to reduce their electric bill for their servers.

I was once further up Allen Road, at Bartlett's Bridge where the Batona Trail crosses, and I saw maybe that same truck with one or two golf carts on it, slowly bumping its way up the road. I asked someone if there was a golf course in the forest (!), and was told that there is a gun club up...

Re: Stage Road bridge over East Branch Bass River, in Bass River Township: The bridge is open today, about a week early. (It was planned to be shut down for 5/15 - 5/26. Who ever heard of a 2 week construction job finishing a week early?) It is re-posted at 15 Ton Max Weight. When I drove over...

YT Yes. Signs went up about a week ago at the East Branch Bass River Bridge: closed May 15. Doesn't say when the bridge will re-open, but I was told they are replacing the bridge and it will take a week. I don't know if they will block the West Branch bridge too. Between the bridges is the...

Speaking of old bridges, and fortunately not in our area, take a look at this story from last week in Iowa. Weight Limit 3 Ton bridge, say hello to 15+ Ton Truck. Yes I think it could happen here. The driver probably figured if he floored it he would make it across. Almost did, too...

I also put up (or finished up) the Batsto Lake trails (3 loops), Toms Pond trail (Batsto), as well as all the marked trails at Bass River State Forest. Franklin Parker Preserve trails are there too. There is a companion sites for mountain bike trails (and other kinds). Here are the Wharton...

I walked it in two phases, Batsto to the Mullica River Campground and back, then Atsion to the camp and back. I used the resulting GPX tracks (2 per segment) to map the trail on openstreetmap.org. You can download the resulting, cleaned-up track as a GPX file easily from...

W. Branch river bridge is apparently OK, but the nearby E. Branch river bridge was recently downgraded from 15 ton max weight to 5 ton max. I think they just covered the "1" on the signs with white paint and slapped a "NEW" sign below. But yes, if you hit either of those bridges at 45 MPH you...

Front page article on this in today's (Sunday) Philadephia Inquirer: "The Pinelands / Building a line of defense in the bogs". With picture. Continues on page A3 with more pictures. (I hope this much publicity isn't taken as a challenge to those who want to drive through there.)

It's a good press release and worth reading. I noticed njpinebarens.com got mentioned - good for you guys. (I also see they use the term "ecologically sensitive intermittent ponds" rather than that word I can't find anywhere else...)

I noticed "prior year tax amount: 0" on the 2016 listing. No. The website has a PDF map. It's not very good. Lots of things are not labeled. http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/maps/BassRiverAreaFinalDraft_reduced.pdf The file I have is GPX (vector) data. I think the person who...

No, my boundary file is supposed to define the state property managed by Bass River SF, including Penn SF. It has included areas and excluded areas within them. It would show exclusions for any county-owned or private property. (It also excludes property acquired by NJ Conservation Foundation...

OK, that's interesting. My mistake. On the DEP Bass River SF web site, the PDF map "BassRiverAreaFinalDraft" shows a tiny little cut-out within the state forest land, which is surely that (former) gun club. But the cut-out isn't included in the boundary file that I got directly from them. I...