Herald/ Lantern/Dispatch 17 April '85

Lower Gets Incinerator Study, But

SWAINTON — Lower Township will get the study it wants to determine the feasibility of operating a resource recovery plant there along with a larger facility elsewhere in the county. Time, however, may doom the project, which has not drawn much support outside Lower almost before the study is completed, however. SELECTION of a resource recovery plant site by the county Municipal Utilities Authority, which approved the new study last week, is expected within the next month, Ted O'Neill, solid waste manager, said. "There is limited time to obtain the necessary financial commitments, environmental permits, and design and build the facility." The new study, to determine the feasibility of operating a 300-ton-per-day resource recovery plant in conjunction with a 100-ton facility in Lower Township, is expected to be completed within about four weeks. Preliminary results of another study, conducted during the past eight months by Roy F. Weston Co. and Sanders and Thomas

Inc., consultants for waste-to-energy projects, dicate that a single, ton-per-day resource recovery station built on the MUA's new landfill site in Woodbine would be the least expensive alternative for the authority, THE LOWER Township Incinerator Authority, however, had a study conducted for its own construction of a 100-ton-per-day waste-to-energy station to service its residents and those of Cape May City, Cape May Point and West Cape May, and has been urging the authority to consider building a 300-ton facility in Woodbine and operating it in conjunction with a 100-ton station in Lower Township. "I can tell you right now that it is almost certain further study will still support the single-site concept," said William May, of Sanders and Thomas Inc. James Busha, MUA commissioner, said, "We should go ahead and perform the study on the 100and 300-ton alternative but the fact of the matter is we should have told Lower Township officials, 'no' in the very beginning. "IT IS NOT going to be feasible or practical for them to operate a plant. The lone dissenting vote against conducting the additional study was by MUA chairman William F.X. Band, who said he couldn't support spending any more money on studies involving the Lower Township alternative. Sanders and Thomas has already determined that building and operating two 200-ton facilities in Cape May County would cost considerably more than the one - site concept. Estimated construction costs alone ranged from $38 million for a single facility to $52 million for the twoplant strategy. MAJOR FACTORS favoring one plant at the landfill Site included: near-

by existing potential steam market, nearby access to Atlantic City electric transmission lines, adequate, and available land already owned by the MUA, existing and compatible land use/zoning, adequate water supply, and compatability with existing solid waste transportation system. George Marinakis, MUA executive director, said the Woodbine State Developmental Center has been identified as a potential user of approximately 100 million pounds of steam per year and could generate revenue of over $650,000 annually. MAJOR disadvantages to locating the proposed resource recovery operations in the far southern areas include limited accessibility to water,

utilities, and energy markets as well as traffic disruptions, conflicts with the county airport clear zone and the requirement to construct a transfer station in the northern part of the county to ease costs of transporting solid waste, according to the Sanders and Thomas study. The New Jersey Pinelands Commission and the Cape May County Board of Chosen Freeholders have directed the authority to have a resource recovery plant operating before 1989. "IT USUALLY takes 3 1/2 to 4 years to site, design, and build a facility," O'Neill said, "and that includes six to nine months to obtain the required environmental permits. We could spend the next 10 years searching for the

perfect system, but the plan presented here is a workable, efficient, reliable, and environmentally safe solution. " The solid waste manager pointed out the projected development costs of $40 million to $50 million for the single resource recovery plant that will serve the entire county

compare favorably with the cost of the new wastewater treatment system for the Ocean City region completed in 1982. O'Neill also pointed out that limited landfill space will continue to be required to dispose of the residue from the incineration process and for unprocessable wastes.

$3.4M To Raze Plant SWAINTON - A $3.4 million contract to demolish the present structures at the former Menhaden plant on Route 47 and to prepare the site for construction of a new Wildwood/Lower wastewater treatment plant was awarded last week by the Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority. "'The low bid came in $1 .5 million under the engineer's estimate," Charles Norkis, MUA chief engineer, said. "We're always encouraged when that happens because it means we are saving the users from paying those extra costs." THE CUYAHOGA Wrecking Corp. of Eddystone. Pa. submitted the low bid and was awarded the contract. The bids of the two other companies vying for the contract were $3.7 million and $4.2 million. The demolition and site preparation work will get underway later in the spring and is scheduled to be completed late this year. Construction of the Wildwood/Lower Region wastewater plant is expected to begin in late fall and is scheduled to be completed by July 1988. Installation of force mains and the construction of pumping stations has been ongoing in the region for several months. Construction activity on the ocean outfall project to be built off Jefferson Street in Wildwood Crest will begin this fall. A Gift to the American cancer society MEMORIAL PROGRAM means so much in cancer control.

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