# 10 ^ -v Herald & Lantern 27 February, 1*85 ■i ■«.

Restaurant Approved; Note Owner Has Doubts

By K J W KFY COURT HOUSE How can we make a decision if the figures are double1'" Vim v J DeVtco asked her colleagues on the Middle Township Sewerage

District No I commission last week Kaced with an overload ed sewage treatment plant, the new commissioners were deciding sewer plans for a It-seat restaurant at 113 S Main St 'Route 9i

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thai the prospective owner is now having second thoughts about opening Restaurateur Vincent Mustico told the commas sion last Tuesday that he expected 144 patrons a day But the officials unanimously granted conditional approval of restaurant sewer plans that only project half that number of diners and. con sequent i> half the amount of sewage "WHATEVER MR MISTH1I SAID didn't ac tually change his pro po&al. " Albert C Karaso. commission chairman said Thursday "And we had to act on his proposal " Despite Mustico's customer projection. Karaso noted, the restaurateur s engineer. Ed McGuire. didn't amend the sewer application to reflect any change One of the conditions for approval. Karaso added, provided that Mustico submit quarterly water bills so the commission could determine if the restaurant sewage exceeds 880 gallons a day If it did. both sides agreed, steps would be taken to reduce the discharge Mustico has been negotiating purchase of the five-bedroom house through Thomas Reptci of Avalon Real Estate s local office Repici represented Mustico before the commission last month He said Friday he stiU intends to buy the property but. Mustico added. "We're relisting it (for sale! because we don't know what's going to happen "They 'sewerage commissioners » passed the thing but with restrictions on it." he continued "We don't know how it's going to be resolved " McGlIRE TOLD THE COMMISSIONERS last Tuesday that his client wanted to convert the private home into the 38 seat restaurant with two seatings a day. for a total of 72 daily patrons They would generate 720 gallons of daily sewage, the engineer said, but half would be diverted to a proposed septic system for kitKnudsen AF Specialist VILLAS — Airman Eric W' Knudsen. son of Martin W Knudsen of 1619 Garfield Ave here has graduated from Ihe U S Air Force weather specialist course at fhanute Air Force Base. Ill Knudsen is scheduled to serve with the 7th Weather Squadron in Hanau. West Germany He is a 1984 graduate of l-ower Cape May Regional High School [«y JUUES BEAI U * ftnnarty of jPj Stop in no' K get that New Lc m 967-4727 Z/ OfM AM Ynr

chen waste, so the expected flow into the district's sewer lines would be 360 gallons daily, "which is less than present," McGuire added Presently, he said, actual water usage of 441 gallons a day indicates that somewhat less than that amount is discharged from the property as sewage Karaso wanted assurance that the restaurant would not ex, ceed 36 seats and, therefore. McGuire 's projected sewage flow •'Conceivably," he replied. "I guess you could push more seats in there." McGuire noted later, though, that the building's second floor would be used for storage, and that the restaurant's site plan was conditionally approved as a 36- seat facility # , Township planners approved the site plan on the condition that the com mis sion okay the sewerage plan, the engineer added During its January meeting. McGuire told commission that the plan ners also granted condi tional approval for conver ting the restaurant from a four not a five-bedroom bouse ••I NEVER WENT UPSTAIRS, •* McGuire ex plained last month "That's my error " The error, he said then, would alter gallonage comparisons He decided to return to the commission with last weeks revised figures Karaso asked McGuire how Mustico determined he would have two seatings a day "Experience." the engineer replied "Mr Mustico is an experienced restaurant owner and that figure is based on his <25 years' ) experience " Mustico told the commission he "expects to serve just lunch and dinner - no breakfast " But. contrary to McGuire. Mustico also told the commission he plans two customer seatings at lunch and another two seatings at dinner — a total of four instead of the two seatings cited in the restaurant application "That would be 144 (patrons* then." Karaso observed "That would be double < McGuire's figure)." "NATURALLY NOT ALL THE people that come into the restaurant are going to use the bathrooms, said Mustico His com pa rnon maintained that the restaurant would draw local customers who already use the district sewer system so they would not actually be adding to the overall flow While McGuire recalled that the planners conditionally approved the restaurant site plan based on the 36-seat-per meal lev el for occupancy and park ing. Mustico repeated his argument as a question: Am I going to get 100 peoUTY SALON ^J Ocm* Or. I A iw — and [V ook For 1985! />1 268 21st St., (fj Aval on A j

pie walking Into the bathroom ?M •It's possible." replied Karaso "We have to allow for that " Based on McGuire's discharge estimates for 72 patrons a day . twice that number would mean 1, 440 gallons of daily sewage from the restaurant. 720 into the proposed kitchen septic system and another 720 into the district sanitary sewer lines Philip Heck, commission vice chairman, noted that McGuire "came in with an understanding of 72 per sons a day" while Mustico said the actual number of diners would be double that NEVERTHELESS. TIIE commission decided to vote on McGuire's original customer projection and limit daily sewage discharge to 880 gallons a day — twice the current level — with half treated in the kitchen septic system McGuire said Mustico "can live*' with the 880 gal-lon-a-day limit and, if it's exceeded, the engineer ad ded. "steps will be taken" to reduce the discharge "We'll do whatever we can to cut down." Mustico said

The sewer commission based its approval on the following conditions use of the second floor apartment would be banned the per mit would not take effect until the Health Department certifies installation of the kitchen septic system quarterly water bills would be submitted to the commission with remedial action taken if sewage discharge exceeded 880 gallons a day. Mustico must buy the property. all sewer rents now owed the commission must be paid prior to settlement of the property purchase, and the township plumbing official must certify that the split sewer system was installed Mustico said Friday he's reconsidering the restaurant plan because he isn't sure the septic system wouldn't interfere with a neighbor's ground water supply Trying to stay under the 880-gallon daily limit could also cause headaches, he said, by restricting water use in the restaurant He said he didn't want restric tion interfering with food preparation or service to cbstomers

It s Not Easy Being On Sewage Board

Rv JOE ZKI.NIK COURT HOUSE - It in hen ted a mess It lacks an office It has no telephone Its secretary quit after two weeks Its budget is unrealistic and will have to be revised, probably at a special meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Its rates are equally unrealistic and presuWiably will have to be raised AND RIGHT ABOUT now. the five new members Analysis of the Middle Township Sewage Commission can be forgiven if they're wonder ing why the heck they ever ran for the no-pay jobs last month. They may feel even worse after reading this article.) A majority — probably all — of the new members campaigned on a platform of "continuing the hookup moratorium " But last week they condi tionally approved additional sewer capacity for restaurateur Vincent Mustico (see related story). A majority — probably all — of the new members echoed a grand jury presentment last fall that said the commission had to be M more responsible to the public " They issued a statement saying "such elementary procedures as proper announcements prior to commission meetings must be the H/yMM norm BUT THF.V HELD a special meeting Feb 13 which was announced with an undated notice on the township bulletin board and with telephoned public notices to news media apparently too late to appear in print before the meeting And in their meeting of Feb 19. they resorted to a

closed session to interview two persons interested in being their engineer: Ed McGuire and Charles Kona of Kona of Kona-Thomas & Associates. They hired the latter at his "normal rate" of $40 per hour, according to Nancy DeVico, com mis sion member and clerk DeVico took the clerk job formerly held by commission member LeRoy Westcott. He sought reelection but was defeated. DeVico is taking the same pay. $440 a month SHE'S ALSO PUTTING the commission office in her home - rent-free — because Middle Township Committee turned down a request for space in the township building. They reportedly said they'd have to give space to other sewage and water commissions if they did that The commission also hired Court House attorney Carmen Alvarez as solicitor for Jhe same amount of money the previous commission spent on legal fees - $1,600 a year Alvarez agreed to ac cept that on the assumption it will take her about 10 hours a month But if the district gets involved in litigation, she said, that would be extra And she makes from $85 to $120 an hour, she said Still to be found is a replacement for Lea trice J. Westcott, hired as secretary at the Jan 30 organization meeting, resigned "effective im mediately" in a letter Feb 16 Westcott is the daughter of Helen and Leroy Westcott, the former commission's secretary and clerk, respectively, and had been hired ' for transi tional continuity from the old board to the new board." according to Commission Chairman Al Karaso That's apparently gone