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Herald & Lantern 14 March «84

Tjsts Confirm Salt Problem

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' • . Doris Word SORE POINTS — John Weingard. acting director of the state Department of Environmental, center, returned to Trenton last week with local petititions for better shore protection, including a county resolution jo fortify South Cape Meadows in Lower Township. Here, Avalon Mayor Rachel Sloan points out her erosion headaches to Weingard and state coastal engineer Barnard Moore during a meeting in the county court house last Wednesdav.

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Digest (From Page 1) Friday because lift MUA never obtained the required township permits. McElweeCourbis Construction Co. of Camden continued work on the plant, however. The. stop work order was not enforced because ^ the burden on the MUA contractor. MUA officials said they planned to file the proper paperwork Monday

Expecting Nod COURT HOUSE - Sheriff Beech N. Fox told reporters last week that he expects Republican Party support in his bid for a sixth three-year term. During a press conference at the Bellevue Tavern. Fox’s administrative secretary Edward Reeves bowed out of the sheriff's race in favor of his boss. Party officials are slated to decide this month if Fox or Ocean City Patrolman James Plousis will carry the GOP standard

Seeking Hot Sestt SWAINTON — At least five people are interested in being.appointed to a vacancy on the county Municipalities Authority, Kathryn A. Willis, county-clerk-administrator. told the freeholders last week, including former Wildwood x Commissioner Wilbur Ostrander, Wildwood Councijman Edward Herman and union representative Sam Kelly. Candidate interviews are scheduled March 22 and full financial disclosures required.

‘Not One Cent

VILLAS -v Lower Towmship Committee introduced a $5,132,200 budget Mondaynight, down from the original $5,792,278 version which projected a 12 cent local purpose tax increase. The revised 1984 budget shows “not one penny increase to the local purpose tax at all,” noted Mayor Peggie Bieberbach. Some expenditures were cut, others bonded. Final budget action is scheduled for April 23.

Pleads Innocent V OCEAN CITY - Mario Shockley, 23, pleaded innocent in Superior Court last week to the fatal Dec. 22 stabbing of his estranged wife, Charlene, in the As bury Avenue apartment she shared with her five children. Questioning Shockley’s competency, Judge James A. O’Neill planned to sign orders allowing psychiatric test for the defendant .’He is charged with one count of aggravated manslaughter.

Paid Drivers?

Second Challenge

OCEAN CITY - Incumbent Councilman William Woods will face local businessman Mark A. Videtto in the May 8 election for the First Ward seat. The Seacrest*Road resident is the founder of Spinning WTieel Florist on Asbury Avenue. So far, only he and Herbert Smith, owner of Herb's BodyShop. have filed as challengers. Smith filed in January for the Second Ward seat filled by incumbent William MAs who defeated Smith in 1982..

$50 Cheaper STRATHMERE — Newark lawyer Richard B. McGlynn will get a $150-an-hour negotiated fee ($50 less than his regular hourly rate) from Upper Township to help it solve the Aramingo Water Co. problems. The ailing utility, which serves the Strathmere section of Upper, is looking for a rate hike from the state Board of Public Utilities to improve its semceto 280 summer and 30 year- round homes McGlynn specializes • in BPU matters.

License Lifted VILLAS — “The (Township) Committee has decided that there will be a suspension of the license for one year,” Lower Mayor Peggie Bieberbach said Monday of action against the Whale House Tavern, Bayshore Road, whose owners pleaded guilty to township charges last month of lewd and/or immoral activity at the bar. The state fined the establishment $6,000, Bieberbach noted. She said a new owner might move the tavern’s license out of the area.

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\ serious problem

S*me of the new data raises more ques

lions than it answers

FOR EXAMPLE. Wildwood's wells average 38. but its distribution system . 117 47That would seem to be completely in consistent and Health Department representatives admitted they had no

explanation '

Similarly, Avalon had an average reading of 85 in its wells, but 104.1 in its distribution system samples. The Health Department reports pointed out that there was no effort made to adjust the average well readings according to the amount of water used from each well. That is, a well could test high, but not put much

water into the system.

Health Department officials pointed out that, in manv cases, not all wells are pumping now, when the county’s population is down: The effect of more water usage during the summer tourist season apparently cannot be determined until then. But county sources previously speculated that the sodium reading would

Nanavati EKG’d?

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ATLANTIC CITY - Interpreting electrocardiograms reportedly was a $75,000 business for Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital chief of cardiology Dr. Robert Sorensen who would not permit cardiologist Dr. Suketu Nanavati a piece of the EKG action. That dispute eventually led to the hospital dismissal Nanavati is contesting in Superior Court here, according to testimony last week from former hospital governor Vincent Lamanna Jr. a Sea Isle City lawyer.

Made $26 Million

SWAINTON — Superior Court Judge Philip Gruccio approved a consent agreement between the county Municipal Utilities Authority and its indicted engineering firm, PQA Engineering Co. last week, canceling their contracts with $1,044,812 to PQA as a settlement — $800,000 less than its outstanding MUA invoices. CH2M Hill, a Virginia engineering outfit, stands to replace PQA and take over $5 million in expected MUA contracts. PQA was paid more than *26 million by the MUA since 1973.

PETERSBURG — Upper Township Committee adopted a $6.1 million 1984 .budget last week Despite a $55,790 increase over last year’s total, township residents will escape local purpose taxes due to anticipated gross receipts from the state, and franchise levies. A $25,000 appropriation for two Upper Township Rescue Squad drivers drew fire from squad volunteers, but Mayor Daniel Beyel said there is no immediate plan to hire the drivers. ^

Circle the Wagons? VILLAS — Owners of manufactured homes in the half-dozen mobile home parks of LowerTownship will be paying a lot more for the privilege of living there. Currently, the owners are billed $4 a month inJieu of local taxes. That’s going to change next month if township committee adopts as expected a municipal service fee ordinance (84-10) March 26 that projects a fee increase of more than $20 a month based on a newstate law-.

5200,000 Bail ? WEST CAPE MAY - Anthony C. Shelton, 22, of Learning Avenue was arraigned last week for sexual assaults July 25 in the Chalfonte Hotel, Cape May; at 21st and Atlantic Avenues, Sept. 10; and Nov. 26 here, besides changes that he attempted to assault two other women in Cape May on Sept. 29 and Oct. 13. Judge James A. O’Neill ordered Shelton to jail in lieu of $200,000 bail.

State Steps In : NORTH WILDWOOD - CityConstruction Official Anthony Profeta has lost his code enforcement licenses. They were revoked, according to the state Bureau of Construction Code Enforcement because of his “improper, negligent and careless" performance of duties. The BCCE faulted Profeta for alleged violations on five resort construction projects. Profeta. who has j been on leave since early Januan. has I ' until tod£y to appeal the Feb. 28 ’ revocation order.

go higher in the summer when water con sumption more than triples. Heavy use of water brings down the pressure and the salt water is thought more likely to flow into wells from the ocean and the Delaware

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following are the health department's findings from samples taken Feb 28 and analyzed by the Stockton State College

Chemical Laboratory:

* Avalon

Well No. 7,-50.8; well No. 6,87.1; well No. 8. 48.4; well No. 3. 153.7 for an unadjusted average of 85. Distribution system samples: 7200 Ocean Drive, 139.2; -list Street and 4th Avenue, 79.9; 1400 Ocean Drive. 60.5; 200 block of 29th Street, 136.7 for an unadjusted average of 104.1.

Cape May-

Well No. 1, 75; Well No. 2, 87.7 for an unadjusted average of 81.4. Distribution syfctem samples: Wilson Drive, 159.7; Jackson Street and Beach Drive, 79.9; 300 block of Queen Street, 76.8; and 1300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, 79.9 for an unadjusted average of'OB.l.

Ocean City

Well at 35th Street, 43.3; well at North and Atlantic, 180.3 for Distribution system samples: 3200 Asbury Ave., 118; 1400 Asbury Ave., 49.6; 400 44th St., 61.7; and 2nd and Asbury, 54.5 for an unadjusted average of 71. Sea Isle City Well No. 2,55.7*, well No. 3,49.6; well No. 4,92; and^ell No. 5,47.8 for an unadjusted average of 61.3. Distribution system samples: 100 block of 29th Street, 51.4; 3700 block of Central Avenue, 42.4; 100 block of 73rd Street, 49.6; and 9100 block of Landis Avenue, 46 for an unadjusted average of

47.4.

Stone Harbor Well No. 5, 163.4; well No. 3, 58.7; well No. 6,71.4; and well No. 4,71.4 for an unadjusted average of 91.2. Distribution system samples: 116th Street and Paradise Drive, 75; 90th and Second Avenue, 32.7 ? ; 94th and Bay, 64.4; and 83rd Street, 118.6 for an unadjusted average of 72.7. The Wild woods Well No, 37, 32.7; well No. 29, 25.4; well No. 31, 96; well No. 28, 25.4; well No. 15, 35.4; well No. 14, 32.7; well No. 42, 44.8; well No. 33,44.2; well No. 34,32.7; well No. 32, 27.8, and well No. 2, 29 for an unadjusted average of 38. Distribution system samples: North Wildwood, 134.3 and 131.9; Wildwood, 117.4; and Wildwood Crest, 78.7.

Sewerage Pollutes (From Page 1) of Stone Harbor Boulevard and the Garden State Parkway uses three-fourths of the available area and cannot be “expanded.” ‘ But, said Jeanne Gorman, environmental council secretary, (he regional sewage treatment plant which the Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA) intends to serve 7-Mile Island and Middle Township, will be built in two segments with the Court House area last, possibly four years away. The current plan discharges its waste water into Crooked Creek which, the council said, “is tidal in nature and flows into Great Sound that has been closed since 1970 for shellfishing by the New JerseyDepartment of Health." The county Health Department took several samples in Crooked Creek last summer and found “some very high fecal coliform (bacteria from human waste! counts.” ' Two of four readings last year were “greater than 2,400 MPN (most probable . number) the highest that can be measured.” The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) sets a maximum fecal coliform level of 250 MPN. The proposed nursing home, to be called Court House Convalescent Center, would be located on 2'« of 8 acres owned by Magnolia Associates behind the Cape May County Savings & Loan Building on Route 9 in Court House. - .Sale of the land to Hospicomm Inc. of Philadelphia, which operates Eastern Shore Nursing Home in Swain ton, is contingent on approval of necessary permits including the sewage treatment plant connection. Magnolia Associates is a partnership that includes former Municipal utilities Authority chairman John Vinci; three Avalon Real instate Agency Realtors, William H. Tozour Jr., David J. Kerr, and Thomas Repici, the broker in the proposed sale; and Court House attorney Frederick W. Schmidt Jr.