The 120-acre Brick Township Reservoir site, located on Herbertsville and Sally Ike Roads
[
] is a source of municipal
water
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for towns in
Ocean County, New Jersey and is owned by the Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority. The reservoir, while often referred to as "Brick Reservoir" is actually located in both
Brick
and
Wall Townships,
[
] with 80 of the 120 acres within Wall Township borders.
[
] Through a joint agreement with Wall Township, police, fire and first aid protection for the reservoir are provided by Brick Township.
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]
The Brick Reservoir is a pumped reservoir that draws its water from the
Metedeconk River watershed unlike the nearby
Manasquan Reservoir
The Manasquan Reservoir is a source of water for municipalities and utilities, as well as a 1,204- acre (4.87 km2) park, located in Howell Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The reservoir doubles as a park that ...
which uses the Manasquan River watershed as its source. The reservoir can pump up to
of water daily
through its 4.7-mile
pipeline
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connection to the river.
[
] When the reservoir
basin is filled to capacity, it covers approximately 90 acres of the property.
The $19.4 million
[
] reservoir opened May 7, 2005, is deep
and has a capacity of 1 billion gallons.
History
The reservoir is constructed on the site of an abandoned
gravel pit
A gravel pit is an open-pit mine for the extraction of gravel. Gravel pits often lie in river valleys where the water table is high, so they may naturally fill with water to form ponds or lakes. Old, abandoned gravel pits are normally used either ...
, the
authority purchased the property in April 1996 for $810,000, which was mostly funded through
a 30-year lease to a communication company for a
cell phone tower
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.
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]
To prepare the former gravel mining site for use as a reservoir existing buildings and debris
were removed, including approximately 33,500 tons of steel slag and
7,000 tons of
Kaofin, a legally dumped by-product
from Marcal Paper corporation. An additional 1,000,000 cubic yards
of
overburden
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material were excavated and removed from the site.
At the time of the reservoir's construction it was only the second fully
lined reservoir in the United States. The reservoir's design is based
on an existing lined reservoir in
Colorado
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.
The reservoir's liner is
40 millimeters thick and covered by 18 inches of soil with a narrow rock
breakwater
surrounding the shore line to protect against wave erosion.
The
design life
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of the
reservoir is anticipated to be around 75–100 years.
Recreation
There is a public
perimeter
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Calculating the perimeter has several pr ...
trail
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which encircles the reservoir.
Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment, but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. Fishing techniques inclu ...
is permitted on the reservoir and there are several 40-by-100-foot fishing stations
located on the site.
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]
References
External links
Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority
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Reservoirs in New Jersey
Geography of Monmouth County, New Jersey
Geography of Ocean County, New Jersey
Brick Township, New Jersey
Wall Township, New Jersey
Infrastructure completed in 2005
2005 establishments in New Jersey