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It is difficult to believe that the publication date for this week's column is Oct. 2. It seems as though j just yesterday we were discussing the plastic palm trees beginning to sprout along the oceanfront motel properties. Unquestionably, this past summer passed with a degree of rapidity unfamiliar to me! It is a puzzling scenario. Two plausible explanations come to mind. The first, and perhaps most accurate explanation for the seemingly increasing speed with which time passes before me has to do with my age. I am now 25 plus: Plus 12 more years, to be exact. The three months comprised in this past season represent only one-half of one percent of the time I have spent on this fragile globe. However, my youngest son, who is 6, has seen this past summer as fully 4 percent of his existence. DOES HE perceive the summer months as lasting eight times longer than I? Perhaps he does, because when I issue my usual daily query as to where the summer went, he just looks at me with that all too familiar look that is beginning to get on my nerves. By the same token, does one much older than I perceive the passing season with an ever increasing degree of "shortness"? I'll have to quiz the erudite editor of this splendid publication. Now, don't think that I have strayed from the intent of this weekly column. There is a Wildwood's tiein. The other possible explanation has to do with the summer season. For many, many years, I have looked to each season with a degree of anticipation. I WAS NOT born in this area, and each season's influx of tourists was exciting and festive. Locals, true locals, always seemed a bit suspicious of my enthusiasm. I always wondered why they sequestered themselves behind fencing on their 60' Dentna lencing un uich w s

x 80' lots and completely ignored the season's impact. | They deliberately wished the season to pass quickly. This leads me to two conclusions. One, after 16 years of seashore life, I am finally becoming a local, or two, collectively all of the locals have amassed such a psychic force that their determination to have the season pass quickly is now working and time is responding. In any event, the summer did go quickly for whatever reason, and perhaps it is time to discuss other matters weekly. How about sewage? I JUST FINISHED reading an excellent book. "Sewers for Growing America" by Dr. M.M. Cohn. I never said I didn't have strange reading habits, but nonetheless this volume should be required reading for every community activist and local politician. I understand that engineers do all of the planning and design, but the book does afford one a unique insight into the magnitude of our present / problems along the barrier

islands. For instance, it is i stated that a sewage system in the condition prevalent throughout the Wildwoods can "leak" 25,000 gallons of water into the system through infiltration (last week's sewage subject). Now, that is not just 25,000 gallons, but 25,000 gallons per mile of pipe per day! Do you know how many miles of sewage lines lie under our Island streets? I don't either, but a random guess would indicate a rather serious infiltration problem. It is no wonder that our local treatment plants have such a difficult time handling the inflow. I WAS ALSO amazed at the per capita usage statistics for an area such as the Wildwoods. The average single family home produces an average of 75 - 125 gallons of sewage flow per day per person! Restaurants produce an average of 10 gallons of waste water for every person who dines. Motels average 75 gallons of sewage per person per unit per day. The average size for an Island motel is 29 units, with an average occupancy of 3.3 people per unit in season. According to Dr. Cohn's figures that would amount to over 7,000 gallons of sewage per day, per motel, and we have over 400 of them on Five Mile Beach. THE AVERAGE movie theater accounts for three gallons of sewage per day per seat occupied, whereas the average drive-in accounts for 5 gallons of sewage per day per patron. (It must be the beer that I makes the difference), i Self-service laundry machines account for a » whopping 400 gallons of waste water per day as an 5 average. ; High schools account for t 3.9 gallons of sewage per pupil per day. If you are s blessed with children in elementary school, I am

certain that you'll understand why elementary schools account for six gallons of sewage per pupil per day. Obviously the impact is tremendous, as this brief summation of figures would seem to indicate. All the more reason to hope for a speedy construction and rapid hook-up of the regional plant at the old menhaden factory along Rio Grande Boulevard. WHILE WE ARE talking about sewage treatment plants, it is probably a good time to compliment the Borough of Wildwood Crest, the Wildwood Crest Tourism Commission, and the Diamond Jubilee Committee for a spectacular fireworks display last weekend along Sunset Lake. From speaking with many spectators, it was obvious that the Crest fireworks display was one of the best ever. Good show! In fact, it was an excellent weekend put on by all three Island communities. The antique auto show was superb and the model airplane show and fly-in on North Wildwood's beaches drew its usual large crowd. People everywhere seemed to enjoy the Indian Summer Weekend all along Five Mile Beach. MAYBE NEXT year, when each community hosts its grand finale weekend, communicatiqn will increase and it can be an Island-wide festival of festivals. It would seem like a natural for Wildwood's Department of Tourism, as funding for the department's programs comes from Wildwood Crest and North Wildwood. BACK TO THE tie-in between sewage treatment plants and the fireworks If you were there, I am certain that you noted the large glow out in the lake at the end of the fireworks display. It seems that a few (Page 19 Please)

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