Tag: Old Bridge Municipal Utilities Authority
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Old Bridge officials remember two long-time public servants
OLD BRIDGE – The township lost two long-time public servants – former Mayor Sonja Fineberg and Ward 5 Councilman Richard Greene – in December. Mayor Owen Henry and the Township Council held a moment of silence for the former mayor and councilman at the last meeting of the year on Dec. 16. Henry said Greene…
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Reader: OBMUA chairman lacks professionalism
All those in attendance at the Old Bridge Municipal Utilities Authority reorganization meeting on Feb. 6 got to witness firsthand the disgraceful, ineptness of their newly elected chair, John E. Murphy III. It is not only bad enough that Murphy is a prior employee of the authority, and he has a son and a brother…
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OBMUA continues to do more with less, providing water and sewer services
OLD BRIDGE – With 40 square miles and some 20,000 residential and commercial water and sewer service accounts, the Old Bridge Municipal Utilities Authority (OBMUA) has its hands full all the while keeping rate costs low for customers. The OBMUA is fresh off replacing 10,000 feet of water main in the Knollcroft section of Cliffwood…
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Old Bridge MUA will have enough fuel in an event of another Superstorm Sandy
OLD BRIDGE — Due to the efforts of the Old Bridge Municipal Utilities Authority (OBMUA), the township will have enough fuel and water in the event another superstorm Sandy strikes. Council Vice President Anita Greenberg-Belli, a commissioner on the OBMUA, informed the council and the public at a meeting on Oct. 8 of an emergency…
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Old Bridge taking steps to ensure safe drinking water
Over the past year, the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has elevated our nation’s awareness surrounding the importance of infrastructure and access to safe drinking water. Though lead contamination has not been an issue here at the Old Bridge Municipal Utilities Authority (OBMUA), parents, children and elected officials are right to exercise great caution…