Full Notification

 

REPORT DATA AND TIME: Sunday, January 19, 2025, at 0800 hrs.

Advisories/Watches/Warnings:

• Winter Weather Advisory will be in effect from January 19, 10:00 am until January 20, 1:00 am.
• Governor Phil Murphy has declared a State of Emergency. Please see attached.

Hazards: The county will experience widespread snowfall on Sunday, January 19, and throughout the week of January 19 until Wednesday, January 22.

Locations Affected:

• Snow: Within Burlington County, the northern half of the county is predicted to get 4-6 inches, with some rain mixing in along the Delaware River municipalities. The southern half is estimated to receive anywhere up to 4” inches.
• Everyone will be experiencing dangerously cold temperatures.

Timing: The snow will be starting late Sunday morning through the evening. The cold will start Sunday night and continue through Wednesday night (Jan 22).

Impacts:

• Snow: Widespread snowfall accumulations with snowfall rates potentially exceeding 1” per hour leading to snow covered roads and difficult travel.
• Dangerous Cold: Minimum Wind Chills below 0. Impacts to people, animals, and infrastructure are possible, including increased risk of hypothermia and frostbite, and potential for frozen pipes and increased heating demands.
  • Temperatures will fall well below freezing Sunday night and remain below freezing until at least Friday.
  • The coldest period will be Monday night through Thursday morning.
  • High temperatures mainly in the teens, lows in the single digits to below 0.
  • At night, the wind chills below 0, and it only recovers into the single digits during the day.

Code Blue Declarations:

• Burlington County has issued a Code Blue until Thursday, January 23 at 7:00 am. For assistance, please contact NJ 2-1-1.

A Message from the City:

With snow season here, we want to remind everyone about our snow removal ordinances to ensure our streets and sidewalks stay safe and accessible for all:

Sidewalks: The owners, tenants or occupants of any premises abutting any street, or any person working for or on behalf of any owner, tenant or occupant, shall remove all snow and ice from the entire length of the sidewalk within 24 hours after any snowfall or accumulation of ice occurs.

Street Parking: Avoid parking on designated snow emergency routes or streets during plowing. This helps our crews work efficiently and keeps roads safer.

Don't Block Fire Hydrants: Ensure fire hydrants near your property are kept visible and accessible for emergencies.

Casting of Snow and Ice: No person, including any property owner, shall place, deposit, or allow, or cause to place, snow or ice upon any street, road, sidewalk or municipal right-of-way nor, without the owner's permission, upon the lands of any property near, adjoining or across the street from the property from which the snow and ice has been removed. No such person shall place such snow or ice in a manner that will obstruct or impede vehicular or pedestrian traffic or block access to any street, road, sidewalk or driveway. No person shall place any snow or ice upon or near any fire hydrant. In the event that the plowing of snow or ice in a driveway cannot reasonably be accomplished without moving some snow or ice onto a street, road or right-of-way, such snow or ice shall be immediately plowed back onto the property from which it was removed.

Removal by City Authorized; Payment of Costs: 
A. In the event of a violation of this article, the City may undertake the removal of all snow and ice from any sidewalk on a City street.
B. In such event, the cost of such removal shall be certified to the City Commission by the Superintendent of Public Works in the Department of Public Works. The Commission shall examine such costs to be billed to the owner of such abutting premises on which snow or ice removal work has been performed by the City. If the cost is not promptly paid by the owner within 15 days, the charge shall be charged against such premises and be added to and be part of the taxes next to be levied and collected, with interest, by the same officers and in the same manner as other taxes.
C. The provisions of this section shall not relieve any owner, tenant or occupant of the penalty provided in § 240-33.

Violations and Penalties: Any such owner or occupant or other person having care of any such property as aforesaid shall be fined a sum of not less than $50 and not more than $250, besides costs of conviction, and a like amount for each and every day that the snow shall remain on such sidewalk after the 24 hours.

We appreciate your cooperation in keeping our community safe and accessible during winter weather!