Sewaren, New Jersey
census-designated place in New Jersey, United States
Sewaren (pronounced SEE-waren) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) within Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 census, the CDP's population was 2,885.
PSE&G's Sewaren Generating Station is a 538-megawatt facility on 152 acres (62 ha) along the Arthur Kill. The facility had five steam generators and one combustion turbine. Four of the steam units were installed during and just after World War II, from 1942 to 1951. Generator 5, which included a gas/oil-fired boiler and two turbine generators, came down in 2002. Seawaren Unit #7 was installed in 2018, 538 MW, combined cycle combustion turbine, with one combustion turbine, one heat recovery steam generator, HRSG, and one steam turbine.
Geography
Sewaren is in northeastern Middlesex County, in southeastern Woodbridge Township. It is bordered to the south by the city of Perth Amboy, to the west by Woodbridge proper, to the north by Port Reading, also within Woodbridge Township, and to the east by the Arthur Kill waterway, separating Sewaren from Staten Island, New York. The borough of Carteret is 2 miles (3 km) to the north, and the Outerbridge Crossing leading to New York is the same distance to the south.
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