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(From Page H Burglary Spree WILDWOOD — Police are investigating a series of burglaries — four on the same day — that occurred on Eapt Montgomery Ave. here early last week. According to police reporU, access to all of the burglarized homes was made by breaking a window or kicking in the frdnt door. In one case, the home was occupied when the crime took place. Law enforcement officials are urging residents to form Town Watch organizations to keep an eye out for their neighborhoods. Hit & Run Victim MIDDLE TWP - A Green Creek man struck hear Rio Grande by a hit-run driver late last Thursday night was listed in fair condition Sunday in Burdette Tomlin Hospital The acciden* occurred as Dale Rehill of Norbury s landing Rd. walked along the shoulder of Rt. 47 just north of Fulling s Mill Rd . with a friend. He was hit frbm behind by a car that swerved into the shoulder and than continued eastbound on Rt 47. Rehill was admitted to the hospital with multiple injuries. I Diving in the Rain OCEAN CITY Divers *ho will begin salvage opeaturns of the shipwrecked Sindia here in the spring, took a dip in the j Ocean last Tuesday in recognition of Sin dia Day -r the yearly event marking the

ago by grounding off the 17th i Spectators gathered on the fa in the rain last week to watch

anniversary of the ship's demise 80 years

" off the 17th St. beach.

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Michaud and Michael Kenney pfaesent an exhibition dive. Hie two hope to recover the remainder of the cargo — primarily china — still on board the wreck. Estimates have put the value of the cargo between $200,000 and $2 million. No-Lights Concern UPPER TWP. — Local residents here are upset that lights leading off the -Garden State Pkwy at exit 25 southbound

are no longer lit.

Committeeman Daniel Beyel told the Township Committee Dec. 14 he has received a number of complaints concerning the lighting situation at the Marmora exit that runs along a townshipowned road. He also noted that the new commuter parking facility — recently built here by the N.J. Parking Authority — is also unlit and causing some of concern of potential vandalism. Victorian Replica CAPE MAY — Local firefighters have received a warm reception from City Council last week when they presented their plans for a replica of a Victorianera firehouse to be built by Memorial Day at Franklin and Washington Sts. Plans call for the 18x36 ft. building Id house a museum, a fire prevention center and the company’s 1923 American LaFrance pumper. Designs and plans for Iho structure are being donated by archilecl Hugh McCauley, who also planned the Viclorian replica under construction that will serve as a branch office for the Cape May County Savings and I^oan Assn- at Lafayette and Jackson Sts.

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(From Paget) the November 1981 edition of N.J. Hdzor dous Waste News, it stands unique among the 200 communities in the state with • recycling programs because of the comprehensive nature of its particular program. . ✓ SINCE LAST FEBRUARY the city has required mandatory recycling of paper, aluminum, mixed metals and glass. Revenue generated from the sale of these materials, comlined with lower overall dumping fees and gasoline consumption, has been saving "thir city about $3,000 a month. Materials have been collected using the city’s existing equipment — some garbage trucks having beer, piodified for • the task with simple plywood construction. ■ One of the important things we were told by the Woodbury officials is that there should be an education program put on a couple of months before recycling starts,” Clydesdale said. “In Woodbury they made the mistake of starting to collect recyclables and then try to educate the public.!’ WHILE THE MAYOR favors the township attempting the recycling effort on its own, x he acknowleges it is “something you can’t just jump into.” According to township planner Joe Zahora — who is coordinating the development of a recycling program 3- the biggest determinant of whether the township can make a go of it on its own is cost. "If we can break even or make money, we’ll probably go with it.” he said, noting there are grants municipalities can obtain from the state Office of Recycling to cover costs of administration and public education. ■MR ZAHORA EXPLAINED there are many factors that have to be considered in developing any program of this nature. —One additional employee will probably have to be hired for administrative duties’. —The township may not have aH the equipment to handle the job. (Currently, all trucks are used 1 'everyday U) collect trash, and it must' be determined how much one truck cjh handle at one timef. , -The feasibilAy of transporting recyclables to market must be weighed (The township has twice as far to travel to prospective markets than Woodbury). —A determination must be made concerning exactly what type of recycables the municipality is going to collect. —Storage facilities must be found to house materials until a large enough quantity is available for transport to market. ^f-The governing body must adopt a mandatory recycling and anti-scavenging ordinance and see that it is strictly enforc-

ed. (In Woodbury for instance, residents can be, fined up to $500 If* they don’t separate their trash. Those who are caught taking recyclables from the curbside before city sanitation crews pick thenl up can also be fined up to $500or more to work two weeks on trash trucks without pay). "AFTER ALL THESE things are taken into consideration, it may not be feasible to run our own recycling program," Zahora noted. Late last month, county MUA recycling coordinator Diane DeMeo expressed a similar assessment about the difficulty in developing a municipal recycling program that’s economicallyjeasiWie. *T can’t see Lower Township) creating a viable program," she said. “You have to remember Woodbury had 10 years of experience with a voluntary recycling program before it became mandatory. They also had the support from political officials that will never be found anywhere else. Woodbury is a unique case." SHE EMPHASIZED THAT fw the township to operate an entire program by itself would require, much of the administrative and educational emphasis the MUA has actively been engaged in for the past year. If Lower joins the county program, administrative educational tasks will be handled by the MUA. Accoring to the MUA coordinator, there are many other considerations that should be'Tnade before the township decides to or not to join the countywide program* —Cost of additional township administrative personnel. —Availability of storage facilities for collected materials. —Certainty that a large enough quantity of recyclable materials can be collected so money isn’t lost in the transfer to market. —Awareness of the kinds of contract to be negMiated with each market. THE SUCCESS OF ANY recycling program — whether MUA or municipal — hinges on the cooperation and participation of individual residents and public officials, Ms DeMeo emphasized: "Are the residents in Lower Township going to be willing to do what they have done in Woodbury?" Under the MUA program, residents separate and bundle newspapers, ^glass and aluminum. These materials are put at curbside for collection, or dropped off at a municipal collection center. Either the municipality or a private contractor then transports the materials to the MUA’s interim recycling center at the former Menhaden Plant on Rio Grande Blvd., midway between Rio Grande and Wildwood.