Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 23 October '85 53

/lli^NEWS ll^// DIGEST I // III / ^he Week's jj 1/ / 1 Top Stories (From Page 1) for the Hurricane Gloria-canceled session of Sept. 26. Probation Settlement COURT HOUSE — County freeholders have accepted a two-year contract for 16 probation officers represented by the UAW (United Auto Workers) that provides for a 6 percent wage increase each year and leaves longevity intact. Freeholders in August turned down the identical courts-negotiated contract because the settlement with county employes gave them 5 percent wage hikes for three years and took away longevity for future hires. Freeholder James S. Kilpatrick Jr. said he was assured by the courts that "the direction of future contracts will be toward uniformity." Another Group Home ? SEAVILLE — State officials and representatives from The Society for Retarded Children (SRC1 are scheduled at an Upper Township Committee meeting Monday to unveil plans for a group home on Prosit Lane. The SRC is applying for state funds to buy a threebedroom house there for six men, 25-55, from Woodbine Development Center. Earlier this year, SRC attempts to purchase a group home for eight men on E. Katherine Avenue here met with residents' protests and township zoning restrictions.

Blue Review OCEAN CITY — New Jersey's Supreme Court has agreed to review an unanimous appellate court ruling that county governments enact blue laws. Based on a request from this resort. Paramus and Midland Park boroughs, the high court will only interpret the state's Code of Criminal Justice as it applies to blue laws against Sunday sales. The appellate court divided this report into hostile camps with its May decision that municipalities don't have automatic rights to impose blue laws. Ssssshhhhh AVALON — Superior Court Judge Anthony Gibson ruled last Friday that the borough's noise ordinance is valid, halting three Pennsylvania men's attempt to have it deemed unconstitutional. The three, who were cited for noise violations. brought suit against the borough on grounds the ordinance is vague, overbroad and can be arbitrarily enforced. Gibson ruled that some portions could be read as being "reasonable." while others should be stricken for being unclear or unnecessary. ' Watchdog ' Slept NORTH WILDWOOD - City officials meet tomorrow with the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) about resort plans for improvements and repairs to the city sewage system. It helped contaminate backbavs and beaches in the Wildwoods that were closed for six days last month. James Hamilton, southern region DEP chief of Water Resources, conceded last week that the DEP notified city officials in August 1984 that the sewage plant was polluting local waters even then. Somehow, though, the DEP didn't keep track of the problem or demand corrections, Hamilton said. Hauler Faces Fine WHITESBORO — S. Johnson Rubbish Removal Service of Wildwood faces a $500 fine for allegedloy dumping about 100 tons of debris off Fishborn Street. Middle Township Police report that company owner, Elwood Johnson, told them he had to dump at the property he uses for parking trach trusks because the county MUA trash transfer station, . Burleigh, has been closed when he finishes his daily collection. Township Committeeman James Alexis argues.

however, that Johnson hasn't used the station or county landfill since Oct. 8. Dunes Done AVALON — Several million dollars the state plans to pay into a Sio-million beachfill project is at stake unless the borough complies with state policies regarding bulkheads and development in the dunes, according to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The DEP said the borough must prohibit the subdivision of developable and developed land within the beach and dune area and change its beach protection ordinance to state that bulkheads won't be allowed to supplement dunes. The borough has 90 days to agree with the prospect and nine months to implement these changes. Free on Bail — Again OCEAN CITY — Police arrested six city men during a drug raid Saturday. Two of the suspects were free on bail after August sweeps when 28 people were arrested while the other four arrested Saturday were free after a drug raid earlier this month. Arrested Saturday were: Robert C. Cappolina. 22, of Palen Avenue; Donald J. Dickinson, 18 of Central Road; and Ronald Poirer. 22 of Wesley Avenue; Matthew Murray of Atlantic Avenue; Kevin J. King. 19 of 3rd Street, and George Kilenbach, 23 of Central Avenue. All but King have been released on bail again. Beached Whale NORTH WILDWOOD - Fishermen found a pygmy sperm whale baby trapped in a beach depression between 15th and 16th streets early Sunday. Injured, sluggish and unable to swim, the whale was taken to an indoor seawater pool at the marine Mammal Stranding Center, Brigantine. where it was given medication and roundthe-clock attention. At least 5-10 whales beach on New Jersey shores each year, according to a center spokesman. e

Fire Code Hassle WILDWOOD — Louis Luibel, state Bureau of Fire Safety chief, has notified City Council President Edward Herman that the resort is "in violation of the law" if council doesn't adopt the ordinance. Councilmen were expected to debate the subject Monday with fire bureau attorney Edward Hannaman. Cop Cleared SEA ISLE CITY - Patrolmann Charles La Rosa was found innocent in Municipal Court last week of assaulting two men this summer. Pleading guilty to assaulting the officer were: Leonard McAvoy, 19, of 42 Street and Pleasure Avenue, and Rob Robson. 20. of the 500 block of Avendale Avenue in Haddonfield. Robson also pleaded guilty to a charge of resisting arrest. McAvoy received a $250 fine and a 60-day suspendedjail sentence; Robson received a $150 fine and one year's probation. Why Not a Year? AVALON — John Anderson. 28. of 64th Street pleaded guilty in Superior Court on Friday for trying to lure two school girls. 9 and 11. into his car in April, exposing himself to a neighbor in June and entering her home while she slept in September. He was free on bail for the first offense when he exposed himself Scheduled for sentencing Nov 1. he faced a 364-day term in the county jail Two charges will be dropped at sentencing, however, according to Anderson's plea bargain with the County Prosecutor's office. 27-year Sentence WOODBINE — Borough resident Jose Viera. 22, was sentenced Friday in Bridgeton to 27 years in prison for the suffocation-murder of Alice Riendeau. 65. during a July 1984 robbery of her Westwood Terrace home. Millville. Facing the death penalty. Viera pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter, robbery and burglary in August. Two other Suspects have been charged in connection with the crime while a third. Randolph

Mason. 23. of Belleplain. faces retrial next Monday. His first trial ended in a hung jury Oct. 3. Guilty of Sex Crime NORTH WILDWOOD - Charles L. Schuster, 37. of Glendora. Camden County, faces five years in prison for sexually i assaulting a city boy, 12, in a resort bar July 15. Schuster pleaded guilty to one e count of sexual assault in Superior Court on Friday He's slated for sentencing i Dec. 6 after physical and mental testing I required at the Adult Diagnostic and ' Treatment Center, Avenel 7 Escapes in 4 Mos. DENNISVILLE - State Trooper Ronald Farabella arrested Robert L. Spack, 24, of Bayville at a marina here Saturday for escaping 3 p.m. Friday from Leesburg State Prison in 0 Cumberland County. The arrest followed a report of a suspicious person. Spack was collared while allegedly trying to commandeer a boat. He is one of seven inmates to escape Leesburg in the past four months. Inmate Thomas Campbell. 33. of Camden was arrested in North Wildwood last month but fellow escapee and convicted murderer Richard DuBois. 33. of Salisburg, Md., hasn't been * reported captured yet. Wanted RIO GRANDE - Middle Township police have been looking for Jon Dunkley, 24. of 1 Holly Dr., who allegedly slashed and beat Peter Baron. 45. in his room at Polly's Motel on Route 47 last week because he didn't give Dunkley money Baron was admitted to Shore Memorial Hospital. Somers Point, with multiple stab wounds and facial fractures. Dunkley is described as white, five-foot. 10 inches tall; 170-180 pounds; with dark

blond hair; a mustache; bue eyes, and tatoos on his left arm. Shorter Numbers VILLAS — Property owners in Lower Township will have to number their homes or businesses, according to an ordinance unanimously adopted Monday night by councilmen. But the measure's been modified slightly and significantly since it was introduced. Property numbers must be "clearly identifiable from the street" but they can be displayed on buildings or mailboxes and needn't be four-inches high as originally proposed. Old Hall Saved COLD SPRING — Lower Township councilmen voted 3-1 Monday night, with Joseph Lonergan dissenting, to allocate $5,000 toward moving the former municipal hall from Seashore Road here to Route 9. Erma, for a second entrance to the county's Historic Cold Spring Village. The county wants to renovate the 1897 landmark into a maritime museum but balked at the $l,000-$3,000 council voted last year to contribute for anyone willing to save the two-story frame building from demolition by moving it $590,000 for Inlet SCHELLENGER'S LANDING - U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg. D-NJ, announced last week that his colleagues have authorized $590,000 to dredge Cold Spring (Cape May) Inlet as part of a $20 million flood control and port improvement bill Among the other authorizations were $2.86 million for maintenance dredging of the Intercoastal Waterway and $4.05 million to dredge the Delaware River, the Appropriations Committee member reported. The U.S. House of Representatives approved a similar measure Thursday.

Trash Train Posed (From Page 1) according to the county engineer's office. Weiner suggested the train as an alternative to the truck traffic now going to the landfill on heavily traveled roads. "REFUSE TRUCKS leave the transfer station in Burleigh and travel up the Garden State Parkway, turning across traffic onto Sea Isle Boulevard. Dennis ' Township. They turn right onto Route 9 and then left onto Woodbine-Ocean View Road — all heavily traveled highways." Weiner said. "The train doesn't come anywhere near any homes in the county and. therefore, no residents would get the noise, the smell or the pollution from the trucks," he added "This would help eliminate the health, safety and pollution problems in Dennis Township." "Making a quantum leap to a new transportation system at greater cost is not practical." MUA Solid Waste Manager Theodore F. O'Neill replied "Do you think people will find a garbage train more attractive than the trucks that come by your house9 " I THINK THERE IS a regional ques tion to be addressed: what role, if any. does rail transportation play in this county9 Should we have it and for what reason9 And then who would own it, and operate it, and what should it do9 But the chances of it being used exclusively for garbage are slim and none." O'Neill told this newspaper "We are in the wastewater treatment business, not the railroad business " O'Neill added that a "cursory" study of the train idea found it too costly to operate and maintain. He was unable to produce details or findings of the study before this newspapers Monday deadline According to a resource recovery feasibility study by consulting engineers STV/Sanders and Thomas Inc and Roy F. Weston Inc.. traffic at peak operation wpuld be 90 trucks a day. roughly one every six minutes. Traffic in winter would be 60 per day. O'Neill said the MUA is trying to determine the current level of truck traffic and any additional volume the plant would generate. THE PROPOSED 400 tons-per day facility will require 350,000 gallons of water per day for cooling, 100,000 of which will be wastewater. Options for wastewater disposal include: on-site treatment followed by land

application of the effluent, on-site treat ment followed by deep-well injection of the effluent, or a combination of the two A fourth option discussed at the meeting was the construction of a pipeline from the incinerator to the Seven Mile BeachMiddle Region treatment plant in Crest Haven, which is expected to be completed by June 1987 The cost of the 10-mile pipeline was estimated at $4 million. MUA Special Projects Administrator Donald 3 Hutchinson said The State Department of Environmental Protection will impose limitations on the amount of waste materials per volume of water. The MUA must then determine the method of treatment and weigh the cost of the pipeline against the other choices. O'Neill said the pipeline is the "most conservative and much more supportable" option. BESIDES WASTEWATER, the plant will produce furnace bottom ash and fly ash from the pollution control system. Depending on what is burned, the ash could contain poisons such as arsenic, mercury, copper, nickel and tin, Julia Jenkins of Upper Township said. "Clearly there is the potential (for harm i if the level of those poisons is high enough to impact on the human population." Raymond Bogardus of R.F. Weston said "Most problems of this kind involved the old kind of incinerator with the belching smokestack." Bogardus said that incinerators have been operating in Europe for 20-25 years and the industry has learned a great deal about pollution control from them. But there is the potential that household hazardous wastes like chlorine could enter the furnace. The furnace would be fed by a crane and apparently it would be the crane operator s duty to screen the waste by sight "ANY" HOUSEHOLD hazardous wastes that make their way into the (refuse . storage) pit, and are not removed, will be burned." said William May of STV/Sanders and Thomas. One member of the public warned of the danger that high costs could lead the MUA to cut corners. "Every time you build a plant, com promise is there. You can buy a good valve to manage the fly ash, or you can buy a cheap one," May said. "We are trying to build the safest and most efficient plant we can to lessen dependence on the landfill and lessen the chance of polluting our water supply." O'Neill said.