Last Day of Classes Bumped Due to Water Main Break

After a closed the campus for portions of Monday, canceled classes are rescheduled for the same time and place today at Ocean County College.

Monday was the scheduled last day of classes, until a water main break due to the ongoing campus construction forced an emergency alert on the Toms River campus.

Day classes originally scheduled for May 16 are rescheduled to May 17. Makeup classes on May 17 will be held at the same time and in the same location as the originally scheduled class.

At 10:30 a.m. May 16, the college announced it would close to address the water main break for the remainder of the day. At about 12:30 p.m., an email from the college’s Campus Cruiser email service was circulated saying the campus would reopen for evening classes at 5 p.m.

Throughout the closure, security personnel were on hand at the entrances of the College Drive parking lots to alert visitors, staff and students to the closure. Electronic signs at the campus entrance blinked with ongoing messages about the closure.

Online, the college’s website also posted updates, and students posted questions and comments to the college’s facebook about what to do next. Several posts from students expressed frustration at the rescheduling, in both that the original message was an all-day closure and that the semester would now end Tuesday on the Toms River campus.

The Manahawkin campus was unaffected by the alert and the nearby roadways of College Drive, Buckwald Bridge and Hooper Avenue were also unaffected.