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by BobShile* Last week Lower Township Committeewoman . Peggie Bieberbach suggested a moratorium on all new construction in the township until a study can be made to determine the quality and quantity of the existing water supply. Now* she wants a moratorium on all construction in the county. The moratorium idea comes in the wake of a recent water quality study by county planners indicating that unchecked increases in water use will create a situation where water is being used faster than underground reserves are replenished. According to county planner Ed Filipski care must be given to how the county’s water supply is u^ed. "WE ARE APPROACHING the time in which we are going to have to be careful in

how we use and allocte our water,’’ he said. "The only way to solve the water problem is by putting a (building) moratorium on the whole county,” Ms. Bieberbach said Saturday, eiqphasizirtg the view that it’s getting closer to the time local water supplies will run out “Cooperation from everyone is needed" to handle the situation, she said during an interview. Concern over Lower’s water situation has also been voiced in response to recent indications that Cape May may seek lo find a suitable site in the neighboring,' township to sink a new potable well. That the city is again eying the township as a well source was broached by the Cape May fire chief. 'Page 16 Please)

May be Decertified

Dorlt Word A LOAF OF BREAD (with sneakers, no doubt) hands out lollipops to children along Saturday's parade route in Sea Isle City. The event kicked off an entire season of celebrations 1 marking the resort’s 100th anniversary.

Unless Upper Township ahd Woodbine decide by June 4, to show the Pinelands Commission some evidence they are attempting to bring local zoning and land use ordinances into compliance with the regulations of the Pinelands Management Plan, the two communities will become the first municipalities in Cape May County to have their comprehensive plans decertified by the Commission. At least decertification would be the recommendation of Pinelands Commission executive director Terrence

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June 2,1982

News- The . Week's DlgeSf Top Stories Maritime Drama CAPE MAY|— The 890 ft. Liberian tanker Yapapanti, with 290,000 barrels of crude, continued riding at anchor near the entrance to Delaware Bay 23 miles southeast of here Monday, under the watchful eye of the Coast Guard, more than two weeks after it was denied entry to the Port of Philadelphia and its international crew staged a work stoppage in demand for pay. U.S. authorities this week could not confirm or deny that the crew had threatened the captain’s life and to blow up the ship if demands for pay weren’t met. At one point three Coast Guard cutters were standing by. By this weekend, the cutter Alert had relieved the Hornbeam which returned tohomeport here. THE LIBERIAN government, U.S. State Department, owners of the vessel, the 38-member complement of crew and officers aboard the tanker and the Coast Guard out of Cape May were all involved in the maritime drama. The tanker was denied port entry because it lacks safety equipment required by U.S. law. Negotiations between the Liberian government and crew were conUnuing as of earlier this week. The Coast Guard was standing by 3,000 yards from the tanker. ^ Maps Stake Claim TRENTON - The first 713 maps designating state-owned riparian lands released last week reportedly show claims against bayfront homeowners along the South Jersey coastline, in- , (Page 16Please)

New Trash Depot Eyed

SWAINTON — Solid waste haulers and municipal officials have agreed that a transfer station located in the southern p^rt of Cape May County is essential, Charles B. Hathaway, chairman of the County Municipal Utilities Authority, revealed today. At a recent meeting called to gain input from the haulers and officials and to discuss alternatives available, the MUS gained support for its decision to abandon the construction of a solid waste transfer

station at the Middle Township Route 47 site of the Wildwood/Lower Region Wastewater Treatment Blant, Hathaway said. “THERE WAS unanimous agreement to seek less costly ways of hauling the refuse from the lower parf of the county than the originally proposed site presented,” Hathaway reported. "When we examined in detail the building of both a treatment plant and a (Page 17 Please)

More Democrats Signing Up

COURT HOUSE — Twice as many voters have registered as Democrats than Republicans since last year’s primary

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- School-to-Work -| Law Speeded Up COURT- HOUSE - A state law enacted early this ybar may ease some of the hassle facidg young workers and summer employers, notes Robert Patterson. executive secretary of the County Chamber of Commerce. . The law provides that during school vacations minors 16 and older may work in food services, restaurant or retail operations for up to 14 days without obtaining a work permit. Patterson pointed out that local school systems, which issue the work permits, are flooded by the yearly influx of requests from youthful • job seekers The new law will permit them to begin work immediately, instead of waiting until thier work papers are processed.

Moore. He explained to the newspaper in a May 26 interview that if decertified, every application for development in the com munities — even if for only one dwelling - will have to have Pinelands approval before they can proceed. MR MOORE EXPRESSED hope that both Upper and Woodbine would take some action by tomorrow’s deadline — evenj if only to submit a formal request for an exteasion to bring the ordinances into compliance. As of last week, both communities had declined to submit anything to the com mission*-- even zoning ordinances as they currently exist. County planner Elwood Jarmer had been expected to meet with representatives from both communities last Friday, but the session was canceled. Mr Jarmer told the paper that no matter what would have resulted from the meeting,) it would be 'impossible for the two communities to completely comply with state regulations by the June 4 deadline. He said that while he couldn’t specify what course of actidn , Upper and Woodbine would choose to follow, Indications are some options are available. THE CAPE MAY County freeholders opted last month to join Atlantic County in . a suit filed against the state Pinelands Compiissicm i Charging that the. Cofrnmission overstepped its legal authority when it agreed to grant conformartce extensions- to those communities whjch submitted incomplete plans to the Com mission by the January 14 deadline. Those initiating the the litigaton — five Atlantic County communities and the county iUelf — didn’t receive the extension, according to the director, because they submitted plans at kll. Continuing, the director noted dismay that Cape May County would eVen bother to join the suit. He pointed out that should the Pinelands Commission lose! — something he doesn’t think will happen — the Commission, will have to handle all development applications in communities that have not yet totally brought th« plans into conformance — includii (Page 17 Please;'

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election, hut registered Republicans still outnumber Democrats in Cape May County 2Mj to 1. And if next Tuesday’s primary is anything like preX/iouk^ine balloting, no more than a qukrterru the registered Democrats and Republicans can be expected at the polls. A recent count by the County Election Board shows approximately 47,000 voters registered and eligible to vote June 8 — an increase of some 230 from the same time last year, and up more than 1,500 from the last presidential primary in 1980 IN TOTAL NUMBER of voters. Republicans picked up 284 new registrants since this time last year, GOP voters now totaling 21,984 Democrats, since the last primary, have signed 549 new voters; they now have a countywide registration of 8,709. Independents and voters declaring no party affiliation.have decreased over the past year, dropping from 16,601 to 16,000. According to County Clerk Angela Pulvino, herself a candidate in Tuesday’s Republican voting, participation of 25 per cent of the registered voters is a good turnout for a primary on the Jersey Cape (Page 17 Please)^ 2 M

DURING THE FIRST Memorial Day ?• vice Sunday at the new Veterans Park 4 Cemetery at the Crest Haven Complex. Court House, Lillian Taylor and son Ka4dy of C.'npe May visit the graves'ite of her fate husband. PFC lliriam W. Taylor.