Herald & Lantern 26 September '84 ^

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SWAINTON - The cipe May County MUA has won its battle with the NJ. Department of Environmental Protection by securing a commitment of funding for construction of secondary treatment facilities for the Seven Mile Beach/Middle and Wildwood/Lower Regions during fiscal year 1965. Without grant funding the Cape May County Wastewater system users would have been required to pay the full $41.4 million of project costs to provide secondary treatment, according to William F.X. Band, authority chairman. ••WE HAVE been notified

by the NJ. DEP that these two regional projects will now be certified for funding in fiscal year 1985," Executive Director George Marinakis said. "We pressed for this type of commitment prior to withdrawing our 301 (h) Ocean Discharge Waiver Applications. "We had to go after the funding in fiscal year 1965 since the available grant funds in previous years was not sufficient to fund the entire CMCMUA projects and Congress has not appropriated additional funds beyond 1965. "Once we were assured that the state would certify

Doru Ward

NOT FORGOTTEN — Missing servicemen and prisoners of the Vietnam War we remembered when Col John Dramesi and Marine Sgt. Erwin Cernoch raised a POW-MIA flag for their comrades during a tribute at the old court house in the county seat Thursday.

the projects for funding, we agreed W withdraw the waivers." BECAUSE funding for secondary Wastewater Treatment Facilities would not be available, in 1982 the MUA reluctantly filed Marine Discharge Waiver applications which requested approval to discharge primary treated effluent one mile offshore in the ocean. ''Based on our understanding that the N.J.D.E.P. now agreed to certify these two projects in FY-1985 for secondary treatment, the MUA withdrew its Marine Discharge Waiver Applications Wednesday and obtained a letter of commitment from the N.J. DEP," Marinakis said.Band pointed put that the Authority hrfd sought secondary trtiatment from the outset and had agreed to pursue waivers for primary treatment only because of a reduction in the amount of federal funding available. "OUR EFFORTS all along have been to get the DEP to come around to our position, and now it has," Band said. "I'm pleased that the DEP has seen it our way. "In 1982 we objected to the DEP's segmented funding plan which forced us to construct primary and secondary systems one segment at a time. And we also objected to the agency's priorty list." He amed, "The authoriI I

ty has always sought to build secondary treatment facilities for Cape May County as demonstrated by the fact that we planned and have had our engineers design the systems for all four regions for secondary treatment. •WE HAVE never promoted primary treatment. However, the lack of federal grants to provide secondary treatment would have meant that the local users, of Cape May County Wastewater system would have been required to pay the full $41.4 million of project costs required to provide secondary treatment facilities," Band continued. "In discharging it's . responsibilities to protect the interests of the people of Cape May County this MUA Board simply could not accept passing along such a burden to the county users." Hie grant commitment made by the N.J. DEP will provide 55 percent of the total eligible costs. Although the state DEP has now listed the two . regional projects for funding certification during FY-1985 the NJ. DEP's priority list must receive the approval of the Federal E.P.A. "Knowing of Congressman William Hughes' vigorous interest in this matter, we hope he will utilize his office, without delay, to go to work on the E.P.A. and get early approval for the FY-1985 priorty list for grant funding," Band said.

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