DESCRIPTION OF OYSTER CREEK NUCLEAR GENERATING
STATION
EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING AREAS (ERPA's)
- ERPA
1
Emergency Response Planning Area 1 consists
of a portion of Lacey Township. It is bounded
on the north by Deer Head Lake, Lake Barnegat,
Lower Lake and the Forked River. Barnegat Bay
is the eastern boundary and lower Oyster Creek
is the southern boundary. The Garden State Parkway
forms the western boundary.
- ERPA
2
Emergency Response Planning Area 2 consists
of a portion of Ocean Township. It is bounded
on the north by the Oyster Creek. The boundary
to the east is Barnegat Bay. The southern boundary
is Barnegat Beach Drive, Route 9, Route 532
(Waretown Brookville Road). The Garden State
Parkway is the western border.
- ERPA
3
Emergency Response Planning Area 3 consists
of a portion of Ocean Township and a portion
of Barnegat Township. Its northern boundary
is Route 532 (Waretown Brookville Road) to Route
9, Route 9 southward to Barnegat Beach Drive
and Barnegat Beach Drive eastward to the Bay.
Barnegat Bay forms its eastern boundary. Route
554 (Bay Avenue) forms the boundary to the south.
The Garden State Parkway is the western boundary.
- ERPA
4
Emergency Response Planning Area 4 consists
of a portion of Ocean Township and a small portion
of Barnegat Township. It is bounded on the north
by the Lacey/Ocean Township line and a small
portion of Route 532 (Wells Mills Road). The
Garden State Parkway forms the eastern boundary.
Route 554 (Straight Road) is the southern boundary.
The western boundary is a small portion of Brookville
Road and the Ocean/Barnegat Township line.
- ERPA
5
Emergency Response Planning Area 5 is a portion
of Lacey Township. The northern boundary is
Route 614 (Lacey Road). The Garden State Parkway
is the eastern boundary. The southern border
is a small portion of Route 532 (Wells Mills
Road) and the Lacey/Ocean Township line. The
Factory Branch River forms the western boundary.
- ERPA
6
Emergency Response Planning Area 6 consists
of a portion of Lacey Township. The Cedar Creek
is its northern border, with Barnegat Bay its
eastern boundary. The Forked River, Lower Lake,
Lake Barnegat and Deer Head Lake make up the
southern boundary. The western border is the
Garden State Parkway.
- ERPA
7
Emergency Response Planning Area 7 consists
of portions of Barnegat and Stafford Townships.
It is bounded on the north by Routes 554 and
Bay Avenue (Route 609) and on the east by the
Barnegat Bay shore line south to Route 72. The
southern boundary is Route 72 west to Shoreline
Drive (aka Jennings Drive), south to Newell
Avenue, west along Ridgeway Avenue to Route
9 south, and west along Oak Avenue (Sprague
Road) to the Garden State Parkway, the western
border.
- ERPA
8
Emergency Response Planning Area 8 consists
of portions of Stafford and Barnegat Townships.
Route 554 (Straight Road) is the northern border
and the Garden State Parkway is the eastern
boundary. Route 72 is the southern and western
boundary.
- ERPA
9
Emergency Response Planning Area 9 consists
of portions of Berkeley and Lacey Townships.
Route 618 (Pinewald Keswick Road) is the northern
border. The Garden State Parkway forms its eastern
border. Route 614 (Lacey Road) is its southern
boundary and Route 618 (Dover Road) forms its
western border.
- ERPA
10
Emergency Response Planning Area 10 consists
of a portion of Berkeley Township, the boroughs
of Ocean Gate and Pine Beach, and portions of
Beachwood and South Toms River. The Toms River
is the northern boundary. Barnegat Bay is the
eastern border. The Cedar Creek is its southern
boundary and the Garden State Parkway is the
western border.
- ERPA
11
Emergency Response Planning Area 11 consists
of portions of Stafford and Barnegat Townships.
Its northern boundary is the Barnegat/Lacey
Township line. The eastern border follows the
Barnegat/Ocean Township line southward to a
small section of Brookville Road then proceeds
west a short distance on Route 554 (Straight
Road) to Route 72. The eastern border continues
southward along Route 72 to the Garden State
Parkway. The southern border is along the Garden
State Parkway from Route 72 southbound to Micaja'
Road north to Cervetto Road to Route 539 (Warren
Grove Whiting Road). The western boundary is
Route 539 (Cedar Bridge Whiting Road) to the
Barnegat/Lacey Township line.
- ERPA
12
Emergency Response Planning Area 12 consists
of a portion of Lacey Township. Its northern
border is Route 614 (Lacey Road). Factory Branch
River forms its eastern border. The Lacey/Barnegat
Township line is the southern boundary. Route
539 (Cedar Bridge Whiting Road) and the Manchester/Lacey
Township line form the western border.
- ERPA
13
Emergency Response Planning Area 13 consists
of portions of Lacey and Berkeley Townships.
Its northern border is Route 530 (Pinewald Keswick
Road). The eastern boundary is Route 618 (Dover
Road). Route 614 (Lacey Road) is the southern
border and the Manchester/Lacey Township line
forms the western boundary.
- ERPA
14
Emergency Response Planning Area 14 contains
portions of Berkeley and Dover Townships, and
South Toms River and Beachwood Boroughs. The
northern border is Lakehurst Road. The eastern
border is the Garden State Parkway. The Pinewald-Keswick
Road (Routes 618 and 530) forms its southern
boundary. The Davenport Creek and Mule Road
are the western border.
- ERPA
15
Emergency Response Planning Area 15 is a portion
of Dover Township and Island Heights. The northern
boundary is Route 37. Barnegat Bay forms the
eastern border. The Toms River is its southern
boundary and the Garden State Parkway is its
western boundary.
- ERPA
16
Emergency Response Planning Area 16 is the portion
of the Seaside Peninsula south of Seaside Park
Borough.
- ERPA
17
Emergency Response Planning Area 17 consists
of the portion of Long Beach Island north of
Surf City.
- ERPA
18
Emergency Response Planning Area 18 is that
portion of Barnegat Bay south of an imaginary
line drawn from the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating
Station stack to the Barnegat Lighthouse. It
consist of all the water and uninhabited islands
of the Bay between this line and the Long Beach
Island Causeway (Manahawkin Bay Bridge).
- ERPA
19
Emergency Response Planning
Area 19 is that portion of Barnegat Bay north
of an imaginary line drawn from the Oyster Creek
Nuclear Generating Station stack to the Barnegat
Lighthouse. It contains all the water and uninhabited
islands of the Bay between this line and the
Seaside Causeway - Route 37 (the Tunney and
Mathis Bridge).
- ERPA
20
Emergency Response Planning Area 20 is that
portion of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to Island
Beach State Park and the part of Long Beach
Island north of Surf City and off shore for
a distance of three miles.
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