LAVALLETTE — Three brand new streets are on the docket for 2025 in Lavallette, as New Jersey American Water Company, the water utility serving a small portion of north Lavallette, recently announced its intention to repave the roadways entirely after it fixes the water pipes below.
“We were advised by New Jersey American Water Company that it is their intention to replace the water pipes in Westmont Shores — north Lavallette,” said Mayor Walter LaCicero at the Dec. 16 council meeting. “That’s Bryn Mawr, Haddonfield and Westmont (avenues).”
“The chief attended a workshop construction meeting last week to discuss that we had just paved Bryn Mawr avenue,” he said. “We were pretty upset that they wanted to tear this up…They have decided that the least troublesome method in dealing with Lavallette is to pave curb-to-curb along the streets that are going to be torn up.”
“So, we’re getting three brand new streets here, which we won’t have to worry about funding through the state grant that we get every year,” said the mayor. “Great news for the end of the year; that’s going to keep us in really good financial shape.”
The mayor explained his assessment of the curbs on the blocks of the three affected streets, and afterward asked the public if any of them living in Westmont Shores would care to comment on the type of curb they would prefer.
“I did a survey myself personally of the curbing situation over there at Westmont Shores; which is a very touchy situation, because a lot of people use the full width of their person to park their cars. The streets are narrower,” said LaCicero. “All three of the ocean blocks have full-sized curbings with appropriate curb cuts. Of the middle blocks, two of them have a one-inch-high curb, which extends below the pavement. Bryn Mawr has a rolled curb.”
A rolled curb is one which, unlike a traditional right-angled curb, curves upward toward the street.
When asked about the rolled curb idea, one resident of Westmont Shores said, “I think it would be helpful; it would at least hold back the rocks. There are always stones in the street, and for walking and biking it’s kind of a mess on the bay streets. I walked the dog up and down those three streets before and noticed the same thing.”
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