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For PSE&G customers, the news in neighboring Hopewell Valley is on the positive side, but less so for those served by JCP&L.
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Sounds like good news if you’re with PSE&G,” a Hopewell Township official said Saturday night.
For those who are with JCP&L and don’t have power, check out:
Neighboring Hunterdon County towns also have many without power: Lambertville, 81 percent; Stockton, 80 percent; and West Amwell, 88 percent.
The Hopewell Township percentage was 84 percent last evening according to First Energy.
Hopewell Township Mayor Mike Markulec reported yesterday:
“I received a call from our JCP&L contact a few minutes ago to inform us that the Rocktown Road Substation would be up and running shortly. This is the substation that supplies most of the JCP&L customers in Hopewell Township, including the Mercer County correction facility on Route 29 (the other being the Ringoes Substation, which is up also).
“Initial estimates were that the Rocktown Road Substation would not be online until Nov. 7 . . . With the substation up restoration work can begin to local lines and homes, but at this time that work has not been scheduled.”
But later, the mayor said: “I was told late this morning they expected Rocktown to be down until Wednesday.
“We’re continuing to put pressure on them (JCP&L) every way we can, but it sounds as though it will be a long slog for those of us on JCP&L. After the crisis is over, we’ll need to put pressure on the BPU again to permit us to transfer from JCP&L to PSE&G. But that’s a fight for another day,” the mayor said.

