Community Corner

About 46 Percent Of Ocean County Still In The Dark

Town-by-town breakdown

JCP&L reported about 111,872 of the 242,872 customers in Ocean County remained in the dark as of about 11 a.m. Saturday, according to its outage map.

Power outage numbers, meanwhile, continued to drop slightly across the state Saturday.

JCP&L reported in a release on that the majority of customers will be restored by November 7.

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The site also contains a .PDF that details the specific areas that are expected to receive power over the coming weekend.

Here is a town-by-town breakdown (number of outages verses number of total customers):

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  BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP 1,207 7,494 16%
  BAY HEAD BOROUGH 1,024 1,273 80%
  BEACHWOOD BOROUGH 2,920 3,885 75%
  BERKELEY TOWNSHIP 17,221 24,644 70%
  BRICK TOWNSHIP 18,201 35,920 51%
  ISLAND HEIGHTS BOROUGH 894 1,107 81%
  JACKSON TOWNSHIP 8,157 21,896 37%
  LACEY TOWNSHIP 5,263 13,088 40%
  LAKEHURST BOROUGH 337 1,257 27%
  LAKEWOOD TOWNSHIP 14,967 28,679 52%
  LAVALLETTE BOROUGH <5 740 <1%
  MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP 5,015 25,507 20%
  MANTOLOKING BOROUGH 253 566 45%
  OCEAN GATE BOROUGH 1,156 1,438 80%
  OCEAN TOWNSHIP 1,942 4,797 40%
  PINE BEACH BOROUGH 697 963 72%
  PLUMSTED TOWNSHIP 837 3,588 23%
  POINT PLEASANT BEACH BOROUGH 2,081 3,981 52%
  POINT PLEASANT BOROUGH 4,282 9,763 44%
  SEASIDE HEIGHTS BOROUGH 19 55 35%
  SEASIDE PARK BOROUGH 157 2,898 5%
  SOUTH TOMS RIVER BOROUGH 847 1,449 58%
  TOMS RIVER TOWNSHIP 24,393 47,884 51%


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