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Old Tires To Form Ocean City's Reef

OCEAN CITY — Given a decisive push by a state grant for $30,850, a 1980 reef-building project off the shores of this city, will be constructed next year, according to the county Municipal Utilities Authority, which obtau|gd the funds. "The reef will definitely be built off the coast of Ocean City," said Diane Leonik, MUA recycling coordinator. Plans call for slicing and binding used tires in bundles weighing 1,500 pounds which will then be dropped onto a site about 4.5 miles southeast of Corson's Inlet at the southern end of Ocean City. THE TIRE bundles will promote plant growth and provide secure areas for fish to spawn, which should be a boon to both sport and commercial fishing. The grant funds will pay for tire-slicing equipment, a storage building for the tires, binding equipment, maintenance and utilities. On Unsung Heroines JAMESBURG - On Armed Forces Day, Saturday, state members of The Society of Mayflower Descendants will hear a speaker pay tribute to unsung heroines at its semi-annual luncheon at the Foragate Country Club here. The unsung heroines are not the women who came over on the Mayflower in 1620. Instead Mrs. John Stone of Edison will speak on "The Unsung Heroines: Flight Nurses of World War II", and Veterans of Foreign Wars will be honored. Junior member of the Mayflower Society are being given the opportunity to win a $50 prize by participating in a contest. Ages under 10 may send a drawing or essay about their ancestor's journey on the Mayflower; those 10 through 18 may send a 500-word essay on "What my Pilgrim heritage means to me". Prospective junior members may contact Mrs. Willard N. Woodward, 201 Tuttle Pkwy., Westfield.

"The grant was approv- i ed by the state Office of ' Recycling," Leonik said, "and we expect to receive the funds in January 1986." She said the authority expects to slice and bind about 160,000 tires in the three-year period beginning next year and ending in 1988. The Jersey Cape Diagnostic Training and Opportunity Center, which finds employment for handicapped people, provides labor services for the tire slicing and assembling operation. IN ORDER to cover the $107,000 local cost of the program, Leonik said; the MUA will impose a disposal charge of 40 cents a tire the first year, 76 cents the second year and 70 cents during the th«rd ' year of operation. , "We may get additional grants during the second and third years," Leonik said, "and if we do this will enable us to keep the pertire cost lower than currently expected." The Ocean City Artificial Reef Committee in 1980 sited the proposed reef area and obtained the necessary U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit for construction. "THIS PERMIT Is no longer .active," Leonik said, "but the New Jersey Divisiop bf Fish, Game and Wildlife said it would reactivate the permit itself if the Ocean "City Artificial Reef Committee chooses not to." The program is sponsored jointly by the MUA. the reef committee and the wildlife division. Leonik said the tire units will be trucked to the waterfront and then carried to the reef site on a stae-provided barge. Proposed locations for the loading facility include Corsons Inlet beach, the MUA treatment plant site in Rio Grande, the 34th Street bridge in Ocean City, or any of several marinas and fishing docks. THE GRANT will pay 76 percent of first-year costs, Leonik said, and the reef program will be selfsupporting after that. She said the MUA has also received state grants totaling $16,417 to hire a half-time recycling coordinator and conduct recycling education.

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