Herald & Lantern 3 October '84 ; ! 2

Avalon Chamber Vows Strong Voice

AVALON - The local Chamber of Commerce will work this year to "become a strong voice in the comX'ty," members were Jast Thursday by public' affairs committee chairman James •McStravick. He said the chamber will attend all borough council and planning board meetings. Mayor Rachel Sloan reported that the borough will attempt to get the county Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA) or the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to share in the $800,000 cost of renovations to the sewage treatment plant.

Because of that project, she said, bay waters tested "the best in several years" in terms of fecal coliform bacteria. "We were forced to do this," she said of the project. "We were penalized for having a better plant." The mayor discussed the sewage treatment outfall line whose construction will start soon and reported that the MUA has a "temporary waiver to mix primary and secondary treated (sewage) until December, 1987." Treatment plants in stone Harbor and Sea Isle City only do primary treatment and, until a regional sewage treatment plant is

built, all three will send effluent out the ocean outfall line. They currently pump it into the bay. That situation, an MUA spokesman told the Herald * and Lantern, should exist for only about a year. The contractor is slated to start laying the ocean outfall line at 30th Street in Avalon this fall, and complete it before next Memorial Day. Pumping stations for Avalon, Stone Harbor and Sea Isle City will have to be completed, approximately by the fall of 1986, before the line is used. That mix of primary and secondary treated sewage, then, will be pumped somewhat more than a mile into the ocean until a regional sewage treatment plant is completed, hopefully in late 1987 or early 1988, the spokesman said. The regional plant will use secondary treatment and ta$ over the operations of the plants in Avalon, Sea Isle City, Stone Harbor, Crest Haven and Middle Township. To several complaints of "why Avalon?" Mayor Sloan responded that she has opposed the MUA for years. "That was the design," she said. "The person who, designed it must have been selling pipe." The mayor also reported that a traffic study for the Dune Drive business district project should be completed by the end of October. During a brief discussion of an off-street parking or-

dinance introduced by borough council earlier that day, Councilman Richard Light reported the borough has had $9 million in construction so far this , year, compared to $3 million all of 1983. The chamber unanimously gave its support to a council antipornographv ordinance aimed at establishing strict community standards on the issue. County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Robert C. Patterson Jr. installed the Avalon chamber's' officers: Danial Keen, president; Miriam Kauterman, first vice president; Jim McStravick, second vice president ; Irene Matthews, secretary -treasurer; and Tom Millar, Carmen Scarpa and Richard Kurian, trustees. Patterson reported the chamber was dissatisfied with the response of the Atlantic City Press to complaints about a "Cape Views" column that knocked tourism. Realtor William Leahy told Patterson the chamber should sue the Press. Patterson said an economic boycott had been con-' sidered, but was discarded when it was found that "only three" county firms advertise regularly in the Press. Itealtor Wayne Dill charged the Herald and Lantern also were hurting the community's image by publishing results of the county Health Department's monthly report on sodium in drinking water.

Doris Ward STAMP EXHIBIT — This is National Stamp Collecting Month and the Cape Stamp Club has set up a display at the county library in Court House. Looking over their contributions are Phil Heck of Court House, left, club secretary, and Keith Seager of Cape May, public relations director.

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