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S'WAINTON - Construelion is scheduled to begin next week in the Cape May Region tor the installation of forceCmains for the hew wastewater treatment system, Kenneth A. Holmstrup construction coordinator of the County Municipal Utilities Authority, has announced. The .crews from the A.V.A. Construction Co. of Newark will start laying 20,000 lineal’ feet of ductile iron pipe to provide a new sewage! transmission system in the region. Work will stop on thfr Friday before Memorial Day and begin agaih the Friday

after Labor Day.

••BECAUSE CAPE May is a resort area, we have a cessation period specified in the contract which requires that work is to stop during the summer,” Holmstrup explained. Meanwhile, it’ was revealed that the low bid submitted to construct the wasteWater treatment plants and pumping stations for the Cape May Region is 24 percent less than the original engineers’ estimate, saving MUA

$3,719,000.

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PAUL A. LAWRENCE Inc., Minneapolis, Minn., a subsidiary of S.J. Groves and Sons Cd. a New Jersey corporation, was the low bidder at $11,700,000. + The preliminary work to begin next Week will in--elude laying pipe along a ', route from the pumping station at Madison, and Michigan Avenues fo * Layfa j|Ie SL, to St. Jon St. to Rroad end from Broad to West Pe*ry St. THERE THE PIPE size will be increased ffom 16 inches to 20 inches and continue to Myrtle Ave., and along Sunset Blvd. to the treatment plant near Cape

May Point.

From the pumping station, at Park Blvd. aqd Perry St., which serves the/ West Cape May collection' system, an 18-inch gravity* sewer line will be installed on Congress St. to the noi^th end of Claghom PI. . A NEW 8-INCH fort*

main will run from the pumping station at'Coral and Yale Aves. in Cape May Point to Lighthouse Ave., thence to the new 20-inch force main beings constructed on Sunset!

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Holmstrup said a new 24-inch effluent line will be installed from the wastewater treatment plant bn Sunset. Blvd. to connect to the existing underwater outfall now extehding into the bay off Sunset Beach. The -new 3 million gallon . a day. treatment facility wil) be built on the site of the existing Sunset Blvd. treatment plant. New pumping stations will be constructed at Madison and . Michigan Aves. and ■ Claghom Pl.'iji Cape May City, and at Coral and Yale Aves. in Cape May Point, the site of the existing out- . moded facilities/

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SWAINTOb . y - Segmented funding, pro-* posed by the state Department of Environmental Protection to stretch federal and staie grant funds, has drawn Fire from John Vinci,/^chairman of the County Municipal Utilities Authority. The ’ authority recently submitted a required plan for funding and segments ' ovrtr the hext four to. five years for the Seven Mile Beach/ Middle and Wildwood/Uwvef Regions •‘THIS /LATEST .directive fro/m the state's regulatory agency is putting this authority through a wrenching experience," Vinci said, "People in the county made plans based on our representations and we ' made them based on the ■•tate bureaucracy’s representations," he continued “I’m totally frustrated. ’ The bureaucrats keep turning this projecLon and off. How are we supposed to keep it going?”

VINCI RAID fci had sug-' gested years ago that the authority reject federaland .state agency assistance and build the

project locally.

‘^If we l\ad followed that suggestion, all the. new,, plants would be built, by . now," Vinci commented. .The MUA staff was authorized to advertise for bids to demolish the abandoned Third and 46th St. plants in Ocean City. A ne# $26,272 grant for the first phase of the countywide composting facilities was received from the sta^e. It supplements design fdnds

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