Herald A lantern 21 April '82

Funding Crunch Forcing Priority Approach to MCA Projects

TftENTQp - Cape May county Municipal Utilities Autbdrity officials Thursday urged N.J Dept of Environmental Protection Commissioner Robert F. Hughey to keep Cape May County wastewater treatment projects high on the priority funding list "Because of the cutbacks in federal grants and with a concern that the program will- only be in existence four mol-e years, we felt it was imperative to explain

to the commissioner where our project is now and where we need to be,"* Mil A executive director George Marinakis reported He was accompanied by MUA vice chairman William F.X Band and Frank Pandullo, P<M Engineering Co., consultants to the authority •*l KNOW YOU have a good project," Hughey told the group, "because I toured the new Ocean City

Region treatment plant Wednesday and I was impressed. T also con-^ gratulated you on getting that plant and the Cape May Region facilities funded before the federal funding cutbacks in the grants program came into sharp focus." Hughey explained that New Jersey had $1.2 billion in fundable projects and only $385 million coming from the federal government in the next four years.

"That’s the reason we have asked authorities all over the state to submit alternative plans for segmenting their projects for the sake of making the limited funds go as far as possible." Marinakis said the commissioner promised to review and consider the MUA plans for funding prior to releasing the 1982 DEP priority list. "THE STATE has not as yet finalized exactly how

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they will distribute the limited funds available although it is apparent that none of the current projects will receive the amount of funding that was available in earlier years, the MUA director said. "We were encouraged to note Commissioner Hughey was quite familiar with the Cape May County project and assured us that this county’s water quality needs will be considered in the final priority system." At the request of DEP, the MUA had previously submitted a plan for segmenting the construction of the authority’s two remaining regional systems in the Seven Mill Beach/Middle and Wildwood/Lower Regions over a period of four years. After consultation with the authority’s financial advisors, its bond counsel, and solicitor, recommendations were made at the April MUA meeting to revise the originally proposed segmented funding plan. The revised plan, adopted by the authority members at the meeting, recommends that the outfall, pumping stations, force mains, and primary treatment plant for a service region be combined into one segment for each region. "OUR FINANCIAL advisors and bond counsel felt that this approach would be more consistent with our

service agreements with the municipalities and will provide us with a more marketable revenue bond issue," Mr. Marinakis explained. "They further recommended that the authority attempt to provide service to as many people as soon as possible in order to keep the authority’s user rates at a

minimum."

Based upon these recommendations, the MUA directed its staff and consultants to expedite the design of the facilities required for the Wildwood/Lower Region and to prepare a revised segmented funding plan for submission to DEP which calls for the Wildwood/Lower Regions, to be funded in fiscal year 1982 with a complete operable system providing new primary treatment facilities with an ocean discharge. This would be followed in Fiscal Year 1983 with similar facilities for the Seven Mile Beach/Middle Region. Later year funding would be utilized to upgrade the treatment level at each of these facilities and to connect currently less developed areas proposed for sewer service. The 7 MUA expects to review the revised funding plan at today’s meeting (April 21) prior to submission to the DEP.

OK Study Of Inlet Crossing

SWAINTON - A $20,500 first-phase study was authorized by the County Municipal Utilities Authority to determine the route of the Townsend’s Inlet crossing. "The initial analysis indicated the interceptor line could cross the inlet adjacent to the bridge," Daniel Kelly, project director, stated. "However, over the past year data collected has revealed the current velocity to be seven feet per second and the channel under the bridge to have deepened from 40 to 52 feet." KELLY SAID it is not advisable to cross adjacent to the bridge. "A more exten-

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