Require Bridge Point West Windsor LLC to use the most updated Flood Maps to Prevent Flooding

We ask the DEP to require that the new Inland Flood Protection Rules (IFPR) published on June 7, 2023 apply to this site instead of the 1999 Flood Maps.

This site is subject to frequent flooding that has only grown worse in recent years.

On July 29, 2022 the West Windsor Planning Board approved a plan from Bridge Point West Windsor LLC (BP) to build a huge warehouse project at Quakerbridge Road and on both sides of Clarksville Road over tremendous public opposition.  The project would include 5.5 million square feet of building footprint coverage, 2,435 car parking spaces, and 1,072 truck-trailer parking spaces.  The construction would disturb over 400 acres of property and cause an increase of over 241 acres of impervious coverage. 

Using metrics from the  “Distribution and Goods Moving Guidelines” adopted by the NJ State Planning Commission on September 7, 2022 ,there could be over 8,700 vehicle trips per day at this site.

The Flood Hazard Area Individual Permit, one of two permits needed from the DEP by Bridge Point to begin construction, was granted on December 1, 2022.  That permit was challenged in Court by The Watershed Institute and in a decision published on December 27, 2024, the Court vacated the permit and returned BP’s application to the DEP.

This was done because of DEP’s failure to require a needed feasibility study.  The Court has given the DEP the option to require that BP submit a new application for a flood hazard area permit or an amplified or clarified version of the existing application.