West Amwell Times

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

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

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

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

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

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

Earlier this week, we wrote about flooding occuring on Hewitt Road on and around the unauthorized construction occurring at 25 Hewitt Road. On Saturday, the property owner, Alfred "Al" Pangia, returned with more heavy equipment, but this time he was here to dismantle part of his project. In particular, after complaints of flooding, he decided to dismantle two of the three driveways on the property, and in particular get rid of the poorly installed culvert pipes that were show

Update 7/10/2026: The property has at least one outstanding Storm Water violation per the DEP, per the below notice. Residents have been complaining for months about the construction at 25 Hewitt Road, in particular the seeming lack of storm water and other permits. Today's storm underscores local's concerns. After an hour of heavy rain, Hewitt Road began resembling a chocolate milk stream. Video of the drainage ditch and pipe under the southern-most driveway shows the pipe c

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