Clinton Township radon testing and mitigation

Part of Clinton Township, Clinton Township is a large township wrapped around Spruce Run and reaching to Round Valley, surrounding the town of Clinton on three sides.

Housing stock. Rural farmsteads and older houses on the original roads, with substantial subdivision development along and off Route 31.

Water supply. Supply varies sharply across this township. A well draws from whichever of Clinton Township's three bedrock settings the property sits over, which is also what decides its soil-gas behaviour.

The ground under Clinton Township

Clinton Township is where three of Hunterdon's geological settings meet within one municipality: Highlands rock in the north, carbonate valley through the middle, and the shale-and-diabase country of the Newark Basin toward Round Valley. Depth to bedrock and the character of the fill under a slab vary accordingly, and that is the variable that decides whether one suction point can service a whole floor. The housing is equally mixed — 18th and 19th century farm properties on stone foundations, and thirty years of subdivision building on poured basements. Both the well-water question and the multi-point suction question come up here regularly, and which one applies depends on where in the township the property sits.

Read that as the character of the ground rather than a claim about any one lot — geological boundaries cut across town lines, and the NJ Geological Survey's bedrock mapping is what settles which formation a given address sits on.

Around Clinton Township. The requests come from the Route 31 corridor and the Beaver Brook area; the Spruce Run Reservoir shoreline neighbourhoods; the Round Valley and Cushetunk Mountain edge; the Hamden and Allerton corners; the Lansdowne and Grayrock roads country.

Working here

Generally open, with room around most houses.

What moves the cost here

There is no single typical Clinton Township job. Newer subdivision houses install at the ordinary end; older farm properties with irregular foundations and separate additions can need more than one suction point and considerably more sealing. A quote that has not looked at the actual foundation is guessing.

Clinton Township wraps around both Spruce Run and part of Round Valley and takes in Highlands, carbonate and Newark Basin ground within one municipality, which makes it the most geologically varied town in the county.

Because the township surrounds Clinton Town on three sides and shares its postal address, a great many properties described as being in Clinton are actually under a different construction office and often a different water supply.

Permits and paperwork

Permits run through the Clinton Township construction office, which is separate from the Clinton Town office. Properties on private wells sit over the same fractured rock that supplies the soil gas, so gross alpha screening at the point of sale often surfaces the water side first.

Because postal addresses and municipal boundaries diverge across this county — and because construction-code services are sometimes shared between towns — the first thing to establish is which office actually has jurisdiction.