1 Concrete Leveling Contractors in Waretown, New Jersey

Waretown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within Ocean Township in central Ocean County, southern New Jersey, on the Jersey Shore along the western shore of Barnegat Bay along Route 9 and Route 532 in the Pine-Barrens-and-Cohansey-Sand-and-Barnegat-Bay-western-shore country of central Ocean County. European settlement in Waretown began in the mid-18th century, with the arrival of Abraham Waier, a member of the Rogerene religious sect (a dissident Baptist group often called Quaker Baptists) who migrated to the region around 1737; over its first one hundred years Waretown had several spellings, from Waier Creek and Waier Mills in 1762, to Wiretown in 1802, to Waretown in 1809, and eventually Waretown P.O. in 1872 (the documented 1737 Abraham-Waier-Rogerene-Quaker-Baptist-settlement and Waier-Creek-to-Wiretown-to-Waretown namesake-evolution legacy). In the 1700s and 1800s, Waretown was a shipbuilding center where vessels such as barques, barkentines, sloops, schooners, whaleboats, and sneakboxes were constructed of white cedar native to the area (the documented 1700s-and-1800s Waretown-white-cedar-barque-barkentine-sloop-schooner-whaleboat-and-sneakbox-shipbuilding-center legacy). Around the turn of the twentieth century, Waretown fishermen sold oysters, clams, and scallops to dealers such as the Fulton Fish Market in New York City (the documented turn-of-the-twentieth-century oyster-clam-and-scallop-Fulton-Fish-Market legacy). Ocean Township was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 13, 1876, from portions of both Lacey Township and Union Township (now Barnegat Township) (the documented 1876-onward Ocean-Township-era legacy). Henry Hudson reported a large lake or "drowned land" which of course was Barnegat Bay, and the bay has been central to Waretown's economy and identity throughout its history (the documented Henry-Hudson-Barnegat-Bay-drowned-land and Barnegat-Bay-economy-and-identity legacy). Today Waretown (CDP population 1,483 at the 2020 Census) is a central-Ocean-County Pine-Barrens-and-Cohansey-Sand-and-Barnegat-Bay-western-shore-and-Jersey-Shore-Bay CDP with significant documented 1737 Abraham-Waier-Rogerene-Quaker-Baptist-settlement legacy, 1700s-and-1800s Waretown-white-cedar-shipbuilding-center legacy, turn-of-the-twentieth-century oyster-clam-and-scallop-Fulton-Fish-Market legacy, 1876-onward Ocean-Township-era legacy, Henry-Hudson-Barnegat-Bay-drowned-land legacy, Route 9 corridor character, and dispersed mid-twentieth-century-through-twenty-first-century Pine-Barrens-and-Jersey-Shore-Bay residential character. Waretown sits on the Pine-Barrens-and-Cohansey-Sand-and-Barnegat-Bay-western-shore terrain of southern New Jersey, directly on Barnegat Bay (with back-bay and tidal-salt-marsh frontage on the eastern parcels). Bedrock beneath Waretown 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 Beacon Hill Formation and Bridgeton Formation terrace sand-and-gravel on the upland parcels, Holocene Barnegat Bay back-bay tidal-salt-marsh organic peat-and-muck on the Barnegat-Bay-frontage parcels (with documented acid-sulfate hazard and very poor slab-bearing conditions), Holocene Pine-Barrens stream alluvium on the stream-valley flats, Holocene Pine-Barrens cedar-swamp (Atlantic-white-cedar) organic peat and muck on the cedar-swamp parcels, and historic Pine-Barrens-and-Jersey-Shore-Bay-fill on the dispersed-developed parcels. Local soils run Downer sandy loam on the Cohansey-Sand upland parcels (the documented Downer type series), Sassafras sandy loam on the terrace upland parcels, Lakewood sand on the droughty 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, Hammonton loamy sand on the moister Pine-Barrens parcels, Fallsington sandy loam on the poorly-drained parcels, Sulfaquent and Sulfihemist very-poorly-drained tidal-marsh soils on the Barnegat Bay back-bay tidal-salt-marsh parcels (with documented acid-sulfate hazard), Carlisle and Adrian muck on the extensive cedar-swamp parcels (with very poor slab-bearing conditions), and historic Pine-Barrens-and-Jersey-Shore-Bay-fill on the dispersed-developed parcels. That Pine-Barrens-and-Cohansey-Sand-and-Barnegat-Bay-western-shore mantle with Downer-Sassafras-Lakewood-Atsion-Berryland-Hammonton-Fallsington-Sulfaquent-Sulfihemist-Carlisle-Adrian Cohansey-Sand-and-Pinelands-and-back-bay-tidal-marsh-and-cedar-swamp-derived subgrades, documented Pine-Barrens ortstein-hardpan and iron-cemented-hardpan Cohansey-Sand Pinelands parcels with documented hardpan-perched-water hazard, Atsion-and-Berryland wet-Pinelands parcels with documented wetness and ortstein-hardpan hazard, Sulfaquent-and-Sulfihemist Barnegat Bay back-bay tidal-salt-marsh parcels with documented acid-sulfate hazard and very poor slab-bearing conditions, Carlisle-and-Adrian-muck cedar-swamp parcels with very poor slab-bearing conditions, the historic 1737 Abraham-Waier-Rogerene-Quaker-Baptist-settlement, 1700s-and-1800s Waretown-white-cedar-shipbuilding-center, and 1876-onward Ocean-Township-era foundations, dispersed mid-twentieth-century-through-twenty-first-century Pine-Barrens-and-Jersey-Shore-Bay foundations, Barnegat Bay tidal stage cycling on the bottomland parcels, and steady Route 9 corridor cut-and-fill on the recent corridor parcels is the primary driver of slab movement here.