Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 31 |uly '85 1Z

MUA Seeks Input On Recovery Plans

SWAINTON - The Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority has received its final report on its resource recovery feasibility study and is now launching a major campaign to encourage comment by local and county officials as well as members of the public. "We are seeking the broadest possible public review and comment on this important project," said CMCMUA chairman William F X. Band, "and we are doing everything possible to achieve that goal." THE COMPLETE report prepared by Sanders and Thomas, Inc., and Roy F. Weston. Inc., has been distributed by the authority to the members of the Cape May County Board of Freeholders, to the governing officials of the county's 16 municipalities and to various state and local regulatory agencies. To encourage participation by the public in the review process, the authority is also currently preparing a more condensed executive summary of this report for reproduction and distribution to community leaders and representatives of citizen groups throughout the county. THIS SUMMARY will be completed and available to interested citizens at the authority's Swainton offices next Wednesday, Aug. 7. "In the months ahead," Band said, "the authority will be conducting a series of town meetings or regional round tables to encourage discussion and understanding of future solid waste management and resources recovery plans for Cape May County." In addition, he said, the MUA and the board of freeholders will conduct a countywide public hearing to receive further comments and recommendations from all interested citizens and organizations prior to implementing any specific amendment to the county's Solid Waste Management Plan. "THE RESULTS of the feasibility study," Band said, "provide a realistic and cost-effective basis for implementing a long-term resource recovery system for Cape May County by 1990. We also believe that this study will serve as an important "benchmark" for evaluating other regional or multi-county approaches to meeting this need." Some of the key findings and conclusions derived from the study are: Converting Cape May County's solid waste to energy in the form of electric power and steam by incineration represents the most reliable and costeffective means of meeting the county's long-term solid waste disposal needs. THE DEVELOPMENT of a resource recovery system by 1990 or sooner can divert about 50 percent by weight, or 60 percent by volume, of the county's solid waste away from landfilling. This diverted waste flow will significantly extend the remaining life of the sanitary landfill. Countywide source separation and recycling programs can further reduce the total solid waste

stream by 5 to 15 percent. Vigorously pursued and supported by adequate markets, such programs can also help reduce the overall size and cost for development of a resource recovery system. BECAUSE THE county's solid waste stream contains many noncombustible materials and because the residue from any resource recovery process must still be disposed of, approximately 30 percent of the total solid waste will continue to require landfill disposal. Developing a single countywide resource recovery

plant is substantially less expensive to build and operate than building two smaller plants. Capital cost savings would be approximately $8 6 million and operating cost savings would be approximately $1.25 million annually. BUILDING a single resource recovery plant adjacent to the county -wide sanitary landfill site would provide access to the county's largest existing steam user, provide for safe and efficient residue disposal and minimize local community impacts associated with the proper long-term disposal of solid-

waste. Four to five years may be required to complete necessary environmental studies and engineering designs, to obtain energy market agreements and arrange necessary project financing and to construct the resource recovery facility itself. "Anyone with any questions on the study or the role resource recovery will play in the management of solid waste in Cape May County," Band said, "can contact Solid Waste Manager Theodore F. O'Neill at the Swainton office at 465-9026."

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