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Nursing Home Offer Fails to Materialize

COURT HOUSE - An expected offer to the Middle Township Sewerage Commission failed to materialize at its meeting last Wednesday. Eugene Mayer, president of the firm that wants to build a 120-bed nursing home on Magnolia Drive, was expected to propose paying up to $30,000 for the cost of a 30,000-gallon holding tank for the sewage treatment plant, operating at capacity. His hope was that this would permit the proposed nursing home to connect to the plant. But neither Mayer nor

his Court House attorney, Frederick W. Schmidt Jr. " one of five members of Holly Associates, which proposes to sell Mayer the Land for the home, showed at the meeting. Mayer, of Philadelphia, was on vacation and could not be reached. Schmidt was in his office, but did not return the HeraldLantern's phone calls. THE COMMISSION had no business to transact last week and was missing one of its members, LeRoy Westcott, and its clerk, Wesicott's wife, Helen. They were on vacation.

- Present was commission members John M. Ludlam and Michael Vistenzo, Solicitor John L. Ludlam, consulting engineer A1 herman and sewage treatment plant operator Walt Turnier. \ Turnier reported the flow at the plant has been averaging 100,000 to 150,000 gallons a day. Its capacity is 100,000 gallons. Vistenzo said 4 that, despite the high flow, "we're not getting bad numbers as far as our elimination is concerned." RICHARD HAEFNER, owner of Mister Donut on Dennisviile Road, an unsuccessful applicant for sewage service, asked if I the commission intends I any more hookups, t "No, only what's already r committed," said Vistenzo. / Haefner asked if the r commission would conL sider accepting money [ from Mayer to "upgrade I its system." I Vistenzo said that would | be "impractical," very difj ficult," and "impossible" I because the county Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA), due to take over all sewage discharge service in the county, "will not assume our debts." "The theory is, they want to do away with these small plants," said Solicitor Ludlam. "WE RE BEING treated like second-class citizens," said Haefner. "There are people with $150,000 to $200,000 homes who can't flush their toilets. "What do we get for our taxes?" asked Haefner "No sewer, no water, just police. Can't we push the MUA to do something?" "Two hundred thousand dollar homes that can't flush?" asked Mrs Betty Deeny "Why were they permitted to build?" "They met minimum standards," said Solicitor Ludlam. "It doesn't have anything to do with us." "They were legally built," said Haefner, "but at certain times of the year the water levels get high." "Why were they allowed to build9" persisted Mrs Deeny. "THEY PASSED the perc test," said Haefner. referring to percolation tests that measure'i&ow long it takes for water to disappear into the ground "But the rules have been changed," said Herman "Today," said Vistenzo, "they put fill on the ground to get enough for septic systems." Herman explained after the meeting that current state requirement is for at least four feet of earth from the bottom of the septic bed to the seasonal high ground water point. "The seashore people took our top soil and gave us back their trash." commented commission member Ludlam. "This is a tourist-oriented county. They've been catered to all these years and it probably will never change. See Co# pen For 5Q$off A_ Pluerfflnil ** UH vkMUWB rmf/B •v.. MM ~J i i

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