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The Herald and The Lantern

Wednesday, April 9,19*0

Eye Delay In Septic Proposal

NEW LAB rquipmrnt will be purchased with a recent donation from the Greater Wildwood Jaycees to Burdette Tomlin Hospital. Here, Steven Wade of the Jaycees and chief lab technologist Michael Kin examine a centrifuge.

Early Bird Beach Tags On Sale Now

TRENTON Cape May* Cumberland legislator* launched identical bills in IN*'Assembly and Senate last Monday in an effort to put an end at least for a few months to the current upheaval over the septic tank waste disposal situation Senator James Cafiero and Assemblyman James Hurley said the Depart men! of Environmental Protection had agreed to the "selective post ponement" of the enforceineni of a new sanitation regulation which\ Hurley and Cafiero said, was "Obviously unworkable if applied to certain .sections of the state THE PROPOSED new stale regulation would require septic wastes to be disposed (4 in lined landfills. of which there are few if any in South Jersey, or at state approved sanitary waste treatment plants The higher costs of hauling the sepfac wastes greater distances ami paying extra charges to have the wastes treated would be passed on

to the consumer Dr Marwan Sadat, DEP s chief of Solid Waste Management, told Assemblyman Hurley his department would agree to selective postponement and enforcement taking mto account special problems related to distances, costs and other ’ factors involved if appropriate legislation was enacted "SENATOR Cafiero and I are very pleased tha_t the Assembly and Senate recognized the immediacy of the problem and the hardships about to be brought atainst the small homeowner," Mr. Hurley

said

In the meantime, seme business people have told the Herald they have been informed by their septic service contractor that pumpage costs could rise as much as 400 per cent or more by this summer. For some high volume businessas, such an increase in pumpage costs could amount to hundreds of dollars per daV. enough to put some merchants out of business

Come and get 'em while they’re cheapier), folks. So seems the official call issued by the Borough of Avalon, ind the cities of (’ape May and Ocean City for pre-season beach tags

May 31 is the deadline for their purchase in the three communities.'' After that date the price goes up. Avalon will be selling its beach tags at the Tag Sales Booth located in the rear

parking lot at the Borough Hall oh Saturday and Sunday. April 19 and 20. from 9 a m. to 4 p.m. The booth will be open seven days a week starting April 28, from 9 a m. to 4 p.m. continuously through Labor Dav. BEGINNING June 14 tags will also be sold at tag sales booths at 21st St; and the Beach and at the Community Hall at 30th St. and Avalon Ave. The cost to early birds is $3; after June 1. seasonal tags will be $5 Stone Harbor and Avalon will observe reciprocity of beach tags. Cape May is selling its beach tags at the Information Booth on the mall 10a.m. to4p.m. seven days a week; City Hall 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday; and at the Information Booth on the promenade in front of Convention Hall 10 to 4 Friday. Saturday and Sunday. THE PRE-SEASON price is $4. June 1 the cost of seasonal tags will be 16. Weekly tags will be on^ale beginning June 21 at $2 each and will be valid for nine days. Friday through the following Saturday. Cape May’s seasonal tags may also be purchased by mail by sending a check or money order, payable to City of Cape May. for the number of tags purchased. Mail to; Beach Tag Program, c/o City Hall, 643 Washington St.. Cape May, N.J. 08204. A stamped self-addressed envelope must be included. Receipt will be returned for the tags which may be picked up at the above locations. (KEAN CITY’S beach tags are now available through the mail and starting May 2 at numerous locations Individual seasonal tags are 13 until June 1 and $5 thereafter. Weekly tags will be $1.50 valid for nine days. Fridky through the following Saturday. A asonal. individual transterable tag is also available for $10.

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Ocean Dumping Suit Is On WASHINGTON - Emphasizing that the ocean "is not a bottomless 1 ' dump,*-’ the National ' * Wildlife Federation has. / filed suit against the U.S. Environmental Prdtection Agency to force it to phase out any of 131. unstudied ocean dumpsites which may be unsafe. The sites are located off the coasts of nearly every coastal state in the country. including Alabama, Alaska. California, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, and Washington; ACCORDING to the suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District, of Columbia, EPA issued regulations on Jan. 16 which ’authorized ocean dumping of "largely contaminated dredged material" at 131 unstudied ocean dumpsites for at leapt three years. The suit contends the regulations violate the London Ocean Dumping Convention, an international treaty, and the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972. Both the treaty and the act state that the EPA administrator is prohibited from approving ocean dumping sites that have not been studied. Kenneth Kamlet, attorney for the NWF, explained that the dredged materials being dumped at the sites are "spoils” from harbor and river bottoms which are highly contaminated with industrial pollutents and sewage. UNDREDGED harbors will eventually fill up, preventing the docking of large ships. "Obviously^ navigation channels -must be kept open," Kamlet said. "But the government has a responsibility to allow dredged materials to be dumped only in those ocean sites which can safely handle the spoils." Kamlet said the NWF wrote EPA administrator Douglas Cos tie last May urging him to "hold fiiin" on a previously-set 1980 deadline to completing the . study of ocean dumpsites. In July, Costle responded that "given current budget priorities and constraints, it will be necessary for EPA to continue the program as presently planned and « implemented." "WHILE WE recognize that there may be budget cutbacks,” Kamlet said, “we simply cannot continue to treat the ocean as a bottomless dump. Dumping of polluted dredged material can harm the fragile marine environment. And under certain circumstances, the toxic chemical contaminants may find their way into the human food chain through seafood. ” Kamlet noted that marine creatures exposed to ocean-dumped dredged material from the New York Harbor were found to be contaminated with PCBs, a toxic chemical. "Marine organisms near all ocean dumpsites should undergo similar bioaccumulation testing,” he emphasized.