MUA: End To Odor Woes; Recycling Award, Payoffs

SWAINTON - The Cape May County Municipal Iftllities Authority's solution to the odor problem at the Ocean City Region Wastewater treatment facilities will be completed by May, 1983, according to information released recently by George Marinakis, MUA executive director. "The design of the odor control equipment is near-. ing completion,'' Marinakis reported. "We hope to go out to bid. in November and will require completion of the contract by May." THE EXECUTIVE director acknowledged the bidding process could delay the work effort somewhat, but the authority expects to save money by going out to bid. "It certainly will not prevent us from completing the job before next summer." Odor problems plagued the Ocean City Region facilities during the warm weather months in 1982. The primary causes of the odor were determined to be the buildup of sulfide producing bacteria in the force main that runs from Third to 32nd St. and the processing of sludge at the 46th St. Wastewater Treatment Plant. IN OTHER action the authority hired S.B. Ackerman Associates of New York as an Insurance Management Consultant for one year and agreed to retain Chelsea Title and Guaranty Co. to provide.title searches and title insurance services for property acquisitions related to the Wildwood/Lowcr and Seven Mile Beach/Middle Service Regions. The Jersey Cape Diagnostic, Training and Opportunity Center, Inc. was awarded the contract

to continue providing personnel and supervisory services,at the Phase I Recycling Facility in Rio Grande. MUA CHAIRMAN Charles B. Hathaway an- ' that the Authority rived word It has selected this year’s dent of the award for the best regional recycling program in the state. The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the New Jersey Recycling Forum Nov. 10 in New Brunswick. The forum is comprised of groups from labor, industry and government. * THE CHAIRMAN also • announced that Stone Harbor will receive the award for the best municipal program in the state. The borough collected and delivered 665,415 pounds of recycled newsprint and mixed contaminated glass in the last year. “Virtually the entire winter population in Stone Harbor participated in the program and nearly 50 percent of the summer visitors took part," Hathaway said. "It’s only through the encouragement and wholehearted support of municipal officials that Stone Harbor was able to earn this award. Borough hall employees set/an excellent example by recycling their office materials." H STONE HARBOR has a mandatory recycling program that makes compliance easy for residents by collecting the materials at their rear door, ajong with their regular trash Hathaway adso commended the Jersey Cape Daignostic Training and Opportunities Center Inc., a sheltered workshop for handicapped county residents, who participate in separation of the recyclables.

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THE AUTHORITY is establishing a "Waste Oil Recycling Market Clearinghouse" to assist communities in the safe disposal and recycling of used motor oil, it was announced by Diane DeMeo, Recycling Coordinator. DeMeo pointed out that state regulations currently prohibit burning, dumping, disposing of or storing used oil at an unlicensed facility. •AT PRESENT municipal, county and st^te motor vehicles generate between 55,000 and 100,000 gallons of waste oil annually,’’ DeMeo noted. She said private sources may double that amount. Recycling waste oil can make a municipality eligible for state recycling, rebates and Ucscnsed reprocessing facilities are now paying up to 25 cents a gallon for used oil picked up in the county. IN ADDITION, the MUA has applied for a State Recycling grant to initiate •a three-year demonstration program for the recycling of used tired in artificial reef construction. Solid Waste Manager Theodore F. O’Neill said the authority recently applied for $14,500 in grant funding with the Authority to provide $16,500 matching funds for the artificial reef project scheduled to begin next spring, •IN NEW JERSEY we haven't been recycling used tires in the past because there,.-hasn't been an economically or environmentally acceptable method." O’Neill explain ed. "Now we. may have one. The construction of an artificial reef using recycl ed tires could be par ticularly valuable to Cape May County since we rely so heavily on the sport fishing industry. "We've been, exploring the concept for some time with county residents and businessmen and it!s generating quite a lot of interest. Now we re ready to explore it further with a full-scale demonstration program to be jointly sponsored by the New Jersey Division of Marine Fisheries and the Ocean City Artificial Reef Association. THE INNOVATIVE recycling program will be implemented at the Authority’s Phase I Recycling Center on Route 47 in Middle Township. The proposed reef site is approximately four miles southeast of Corson’s Inlet. The proposed 70-acre reef site will be developed and maintained by the Ocean City Reef Association as a near shore sport fishing area. O'Neill said the Association has applied to the New Jersey Corps of Engineers for approval of the site.

SPONSORED BY the MUA, the Cape May County facility will be operated by the Jersey Cape Diagnostic Training and Opportunity Center, Inc. The New Jersey Division of Marine Fisheries will transport ana place the used tire reef units at the sites. The tires will be sliced and assembled into 1,200 to 1,500-pound artificial reef units. The 60-tire units will be bound with cable and stpred for semi annual transportation to the* reef site. THE MUA HAS approv ed recycling rebates for the first time ever because revenues generated from the sale of recyclables in the third quarter of this year exceeded the opperating cost limit set by the Authority for operating the recycling program. This limit, which is $4,750 per month or $14,250 per quarter, was established by a recycling joint resolution passed by both the Authority and participating communities in 1981-82. DURING THE third quarter, 680,245 pounds of recyclables were delivered to the Phase I Recycling Center and 859,240 pounds of mixed color con laminated glass and newsprint we^e sold. Revenues from the sale of recyclables totaled $14,748, leaving a net rebate of $4f>8 The amount being /cbated back to the par ticipating communities is based on the tons of material they delivered to the MUA Phase I Recycl-

ing Center in Rio Grande during the third quarter. STONE HARBOR will receive a rebate for 1266 and North Wildwood will receive $102. Checks will be sent to those communities and other participating municipalities including .Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Middle Township, Dennis Township and Wildwood will also receive rebates In addition to receiving

$498 in rebates from the Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority for the third quarter, participating communities will receive rebates! from the State Office of Recycling, which for the third quarter total $680 - $2000 for all municipalities. Furthermore. these communities have avinided almost $2,000 •in landfill tipping fees.

THE COOKIE 1VJONSTER and E.T. collaborate in passing out Munrhkins at Hallowe'en party At Maude Abrams School, l.ower Township. From the left are MorkYurkaly. Michelle Maslrlana and Sabrina McCullen.

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