Investigation of possible environmental hazard at Harrison Brook, Bernards NJ

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Reported: 11/10/2025 11:39 AM

Harrison Brook Dr, Bernards, NJ 07920

Emergency responders are investigating a possible environmental incident involving water near Vail Terrace and Lake Road. No odors or pollutants were detected in Harrison Brook, but precautionary environmental measures, including the deployment of booms, are being taken.

Audio|Source: Bernards Township, Somerset Hills, and Somerset County Public Safety

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Transcript:

00:00

Can you please put a note in for me? Sorry, not my computer.

00:04

I'm going to go to Vail Terrace and Lake Road, trying to get the outflow of us.

00:15

There's a Vail Terrace and Lake Road.

00:20

Thank you.

00:24

So you switched over before here, DAPE numbers and the notes.

00:31

Joe,

00:35

I'm on Hath and I want to communicate when I go there.

00:41

I'm on Hath and I want to communicate when I go there.

00:46

County 234-7.

00:52

You cleared my last appointment and service for you.

00:57

Receive.

00:58

Clear my last.

01:01

We received 2414.

01:08

Ninety six or five from ninety eight, I was a thousand one.

01:12

Good.

01:15

No odor, no product in the water.

01:17

There's a, uh,

01:18

it's not flowing very heavily, and it's not very deep, but there's a lot of rock and a lot of vegetation and a lot of bends along the way.

01:25

There could be possible.

01:26

There is stuff way upstream,

01:28

but where we are, there's no impacts.

01:34

Kathy, can you throw booms out just precautionary?

01:40

Yep.

01:48

Thank you. If you're a record,

01:50

I'll be using a bag of bench, just so you can mark that.

01:59

Also, for documentation purposes, I'm not sure if you will,

02:04

found it or not yet, but this body of water is a Harrison brook.

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Harrison Brook Dr, Bernards, NJ 07920

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