1 Concrete Leveling Contractors in Southampton Township, New Jersey

Southampton Township is a township in central Burlington County, southern New Jersey, sitting along Route 206 and the Rancocas Creek tributary drainage in the Pine-Barrens-and-Cohansey-Sand-and-Rancocas-Creek country of central Burlington County. Southampton is one of the fourteen townships in Burlington County, and large sections of the area are covered with portions of the Pine Barrens, which extends across several counties of southern New Jersey (the documented Pine-Barrens-extending-across-southern-New-Jersey legacy). Southampton Township was formed on March 10, 1757, by an act of the New Jersey Colonial Legislature, from portions of Northampton Township (the documented 1757-onward Southampton-Township-era legacy). Burlington County is one of the counties affected by the Pinelands National Reserve designation, along with Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Ocean (the documented Pinelands-National-Reserve-designation legacy). The Atlantic Coastal Plain began to form 170 to 200 million years ago, and about 100 million years ago, the Atlantic Ocean repeatedly covered the coastal plain and then withdrew, depositing layers of geologic material now beneath the Pinelands (the documented Atlantic-Coastal-Plain-170-to-200-million-year formation legacy). The geology of the Pinelands on the coastal plain is rooted in the last ice age that caused sand deposition and erosion plus freeze-thaw cycles (the documented last-ice-age sand-deposition-erosion-freeze-thaw legacy). Beneath the Pine Barrens lies the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer, an underground freshwater system estimated to hold over 17 trillion gallons of water, which feeds thousands of acres of wetlands, cranberry bogs, and rare habitat types such as vernal pools and Atlantic white cedar swamps (the documented Kirkwood-Cohansey-aquifer-17-trillion-gallon-freshwater-system and Atlantic-white-cedar-swamp-and-cranberry-bog-and-vernal-pool legacy). First iron furnaces were built in the Pinelands in 1765, and despite rapid urbanization of surrounding areas, the Pine Barrens remained largely untouched because its sandy soil was unsuitable for growing most crops, and its iron and charcoal deposits did not compete with more readily accessible deposits elsewhere (the documented 1765-onward Pinelands-iron-furnace legacy). Today Southampton Township (population 10,196 at the 2020 census) is a central-Burlington-County Pine-Barrens-and-Cohansey-Sand-and-Rancocas-Creek-and-Pinelands-National-Reserve township with significant documented 1757-onward Southampton-Township-era legacy, Pine-Barrens-extending-across-southern-New-Jersey legacy, Pinelands-National-Reserve-designation legacy, Atlantic-Coastal-Plain-170-to-200-million-year formation legacy, Kirkwood-Cohansey-aquifer-17-trillion-gallon-freshwater-system legacy, 1765-onward Pinelands-iron-furnace legacy, Atlantic-white-cedar-swamp-and-cranberry-bog-and-vernal-pool legacy, and dense Pinelands-rural-and-farmstead residential character. Southampton Township sits on the Pine-Barrens-and-Cohansey-Sand-and-Rancocas-Creek terrain of southern New Jersey, in the Rancocas Creek drainage within the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve. Bedrock beneath Southampton Township is Outer Coastal Plain Cohansey Sand (a dominant Pine-Barrens aquifer and surficial feature of the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system). Above bedrock, surficial materials include extensive Cohansey-Sand-derived siliceous sand (with documented Pine-Barrens ortstein-hardpan and iron-cemented-hardpan character), Pleistocene Bridgeton Formation terrace sand-and-gravel on the upland parcels (with documented iron-cemented-hardpan character), Holocene Rancocas Creek tributary alluvium on the stream-valley flats, Holocene Pine-Barrens cedar-swamp organic peat and muck on the cedar-swamp-and-cranberry-bog parcels (with very poor slab-bearing conditions), and historic Pinelands-farmstead-fill on the rural-developed parcels. Local soils run Downer sandy loam on the Cohansey-Sand upland parcels (the documented Downer type series), Sassafras sandy loam on the Bridgeton-terrace upland parcels, Woodstown sandy loam on the moister terrace parcels, Hammonton loamy sand on the Cohansey-and-Bridgeton-derived moister upland parcels, Fallsington sandy loam on the poorly-drained Pinelands parcels, Atsion sandy loam on the wet Pinelands parcels (with documented ortstein-hardpan and wetness hazard), Berryland sandy loam on the very-wet Pinelands parcels, Lakewood sand on the droughty Pinelands parcels, Carlisle and Adrian muck on the Pine-Barrens cedar-swamp-and-cranberry-bog parcels (with very poor slab-bearing conditions), and historic Pinelands-farmstead-fill on the rural-developed parcels. That Pine-Barrens-and-Cohansey-Sand-and-Rancocas-Creek mantle with Downer-Sassafras-Woodstown-Hammonton-Fallsington-Atsion-Berryland-Lakewood-Carlisle-Adrian Cohansey-Sand-and-Pinelands-and-cedar-swamp-derived subgrades, documented Pine-Barrens ortstein-hardpan and iron-cemented-hardpan parcels on the Cohansey-Sand and Bridgeton Pinelands parcels with documented hardpan-perched-water hazard, Atsion-and-Berryland wet-Pinelands parcels with documented wetness and ortstein-hardpan hazard, Carlisle-and-Adrian-muck cedar-swamp-and-cranberry-bog parcels with very poor slab-bearing conditions, the historic 1757-onward Southampton-Township-era and 1765-onward Pinelands-iron-furnace foundations, dense Pinelands-rural-and-farmstead foundations, Rancocas Creek tributary stage cycling on the stream-valley parcels, and steady Route 206 corridor cut-and-fill on the recent corridor parcels is the primary driver of slab movement here.