Delaware River flooding at Washington Crossing
April 2005
Emergency Management
Hopewell Valley has a regional Office of Emergency Management (OEM) including Hopewell Township, Hopewell Borough and Pennington Borough.
Police Chief George Meyer serves as the Executive Director of this regional office. Lieutenant Lance Maloney serves as the Deputy Director for Hopewell Township. Both Hopewell Borough and Pennington Borough have Emergency Management Directors as well.
The Office of Emergency Management is responsible for planning for, responding to and coordinating efforts during major emergency events in the Valley. The office has developed and constantly updates a comprehensive emergency operations plan. Periodically the office conducts drills involving the police departments, fire departments, emergency medical units, communications centers, health department and other government agencies such as the public works departments.
The OEM utilizes an emergency operations center located in the Hopewell Township police headquarters. This center is activated several times a year for incidents such as floods, major snowstorms, and other large scale events.
The Hopewell Valley OEM which works closely with the Mercer County and New Jersey State Emergency Management Offices.
Hopewell Valley OEM utilizes several methods of alerting the public when there is an emergency event taking place. The office uses emergency telephone notifications (reverse 9-1-1), local cable television notices, updates to the Hopewell Township web site and a service called Nixle.
Nixle is a free service that alerts residents to public safety threats and important community information via e-mail, and cell phone text messages. To register go to
www.nixle.com.
