East Brunswick High School To Remain Remote Until Friday Due To Water Main Break

EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ – Students from East Brunswick High School will continue with remote learning this week, after a water main break affected the building last week.

In a message to the school community, Superintendent Victor Valeski said that a water line supplying the high school burst underground beneath one of the corridors.

“Knowing that the water service to the entire building needed to be shut off while repairs commenced, I needed permission from our Executive County Superintendent and the Middlesex County Department of Health to move the high school students to remote learning and still get credit for those instructional days,” Valeski said.

According to the Superintendent, the water line repair involves excavating six to eight feet below the floor surface.

“We took immediate and proactive steps, guided by our contracted environmental consultants, to ensure we maintained an environmentally safe worksite and school,” Valeski said.

Due to the nature of the work involved, students at the high schol will be learning remotely until Friday, Nov. 3.

Students will follow the A and B schedules but in a single session format and all high school staff will hold virtual office hours from 1:35 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. during the week.

“The Child Nutrition Department will be offering Grab and Go breakfast and lunch meals for high school students only, beginning Monday, October 30th and continuing though our remote instruction days,” Valeski said.

Meals will be distributed at the high school in front of door 9, Monday through Friday at the following times:

• Morning - 7:00 a.m. – 7:45 a.m.
• Afternoon -12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m.

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