Engineer hired to arrange for generator to keep municipal offices up and running and provide warm spot during power outages.
When Superstorm Sandy pulled the plug on the municipal building last October, and left many municipal operations scattered in various locations, township officials resolved to install a generator powerful enough to keep town hall up and running. The cold weather that set in after several days of last fall's prolonged power outage also encouraged discussions of turning the large courtroom into a warming center if necessary. But placing a generator in a municipal facility housed in a gracious old home with original sections dating back to 1904 and different circuit systems — which also requires state Department of Environmental Protection approval for installation — isn't so easy, officials discovered. As a result, on Tuesday night the …
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Even if it didn't fit under the tree, generators may have been a popular gift item in the Somerset Hills this year.
It may not look great under your Christmas tree, it probably can't be wrapped nicely, and it certainly isn't a stocking stuffer. But an overheard conversation in Bernardsville on Thursday morning about two guys discussing their new generators arriving just in time for the holiday raises the question of whether there really is a better gift this year in the Somerset Hills. While some households already had generators before then-Hurricane Sandy headed this way in late October, the actual arrival of the storm plunged Basking Ridge and Bernardsville into virtually 100 percent powerlessness. That's enough to encourage even hold-outs to think again. And were you among the couple of hundred households in Bernards Township and Bernardsville who …
b flake
8:14 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Why would the entire place need to run? When you install a generator in a home you usually pick certain circuits that are not needed, like air conditioning, if its hot, open a window! You can buy a 25,000kw nat gas generator installed for less than $20,000. The town is either getting the shaft or stupid if it thinks it needs to spend so much. Also - perhaps the town should consider selling the … more ›