Colts Neck residents want Monmouth to shoot down sewer plan for 360 apartments

FREEHOLD – Colts Neck residents have asked the Monmouth County Commissioners to reject a proposed sewer plan for a controversial 360-unit apartment complex to be built on Route 537. More than 1,800 people have signed an online petition asking for a more in-depth review of the environmental impacts of Colts Neck Manor. Leaders of the petition drive also spoke to the commissioners at their meeting Tuesday. Their concern is Colts Neck Manor’s location near the Yellow Brook, which feeds into the Swimming River Reservoir. Failure of the sewer system proposed for the project “could create a major contamination event affecting…