8 Herald - Lantern - Dispalch 30 October '85

Middle Gets DC A Grant

Water Lines Assured For Moratorium Area

lly Git EGG I.AWSON COl HIT llOl'SK Mid die Township has reeeived a $350.00 grant ni lederal money from the stale l>e|Kirtiuenl ot Community Al fairs 1DCA1 lor a water line to serve residents li\ ; inn w it hi ll a line mile radius o| the Williams Tux i e Waste I) u m p 1 11 Sw amino Mayor Mudiael I \ oil ■ failed a press eonlereiiee last Knda\ toannoiinee the

project, which he said will brink safe drinking waterto approximately 424 |mm> pie in 164 dwellings in the area lie promised it will lie completed by the end u! next summer, possibly by Memorial Day The water main will ex lend I mm the county park north up Route !i to a point just south ol Avalon Itoulcvard extensions will run down Sirgtuwii Road and Swain ton Goshen (load \' the request ol

Fire Chief Calvin Hack. 17 fire hydrants will be installed along the route The grant will pay part of the /•stimated total cost of $850,000 The township is. applying for grants and loans from Farmers Home Administration to make up the. SaOO.tHHi balance. "We should qualify lor additional funds because of the seriousness of the prm hlem. the $35n,ooo already, reeeived. and the fact we qualify under the low to moderate income level re quiremeiils, " said the township's grants coor dmalor. Kathy Meers. Vol I said the project will go ahead on the basis ol this grant, regardless of whet her, other grants come through Meers said the township will pay lor repavuig. any streets that are torn up to lay piping Hut. she added, some roads may not have to be excavated, saving time and money •"We might not have to tear up Uoute it. we could run the pqn* alongside the road and shiMil laterals underneath it." she said "Hight now we are trying to gel all our figures together to see what our costs will lie Since we are already planning to repave the roads, it may lie less." Voll said any apartments. hou s e s or

businesses along the route can hook into the main line, including the Kastern Shore Nursing Home and the proposed sub station at Swainton for the Cape May Court House Kire Company. "As a result of this project. we may see newdevelopment. " he said. Currently, the county is I refusing to issue permits lor new wells within one I mile of the Williams site It is. in effect, a building moratorium The township expects the moratorium to Ik* Idled upon completion of the project "Once piped water is available, there will Ik- no reason to drill wells." Moors said. Voll said the lonwship doesn't know at this time whether the New Jersey Water Company will require residents along the route to hook-in to the main. Regardless, he said. , there will be no tax increase to residents related to the construction of it. He added there will be no easing of pressure to clean up the dump where more than 200 drums containing (he toxic chemicals oxy I e n e . toluene and trichloroethane were found in 1979. They allegedly originated from Wheaton industries. "Since 1979 is too long for people to wait, here it is 1985. We don't want to wait (for the cleanup) and we shouldn't have to." Voll said "Hut we thought, even if we had to fund it ourselves, we would get the people up there good potable water " Voll acknowledged there is no conclusive proof the well water is contaminated. but said many residents buy bottled water to Ik* safe "They can't put their minds to rest with this Williams Dump so close." he said. The lack of conclusive proof of contamination has slowed cleanup of the site, as has litigation by Wheaton The dump is rated one of the most serious on the nation's Superfund cleanup lists The state Department of (environmental Protection (DKP> cleanup feasibility study, underway now. will determine if anv wells are polluted The DKP w ill drill a total of 14 wells to determine if the plume of toxic waste is spreading Voll said work on the pipeline can begin once DCA funds are released and a four- to six-week bidding process ensues. "We probably won't get the check and official go ahead until January." he said ' 1 But if we keep things going and get the rest of the funding in place. I think we can get it done byMemorial Day weather permitting."

"I can't believe we got it." the elated mayor said at the press conference. "We got a $110,788 grant for a drainage project at Main. Gibbs. Anna and Fishborn streets in Whitesboro last year." Kathy Meers said. "They don't like to give money to

the same area two years in a row." "We got it. I think, because of the seriousness of the toxic waste site, the fact that nothing was done about it since 1979, and a lot was probably based on lawsuits with Wheaton industries." she added.

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Doris Word GRANT (iETTKR — Kathy Meers in a familiar position, behind her desk with a pile of paperwork in front of her.

Meers' 1st Grant Effort a Success

CPURT HOUSE - Kathy Meers was widely praised as the driving force behind the DCA loan grant at the Middle Township press conference last Friday. Originally hired last January as a clerk/typist. Meers. 36. found herself coordinating the grant application although she had no previous experience in that area "The township had no grants coordinator and needed someone to take over, so I've been handling the job since I started." she said. "I never did anything like this before, but I have attended seminars and workshops to learn more about it " IIKR OFFICIAL civil service title still is clerk /typist, and she is paid accordingly. "Her pay will be adjusted on the first of the year." Mayor Michael J. Voll said with a sheepish grin. "I consider her my administrative assistant ." Meers said she also will receive a new title, but is not at liberty to name it. She worked with MIA Management Implementation Associates, a Pennsylvania-based consulting firm, to get the grant They held private meetings and public hearings. collected data, conducteB door-to-door and phone income surveys and met with officials of the water company They then collected the data, wrote it up. and took it to Trenton. "IT S NOT AS EASY as it sounds." she said with a laugh. "The paperwork alone is sometimes over-

powering with all the government information and forins you have to fill out " "But I'd like to work on other projects such as this." she added "There are a lot of other things in the township that raifcto be done We will other agencies to see what they have to offer." Besides her official duties. Meers serves as a liason between residents and groups and the township She is currently working with the Middle Township Traffic Commit tee and the Housing Authority, which are separate from the tow nship government SHE A I .SO WRITES for the township newsletter Two articles, one on Learn- 1 ings Run and one on ther' Police Explorers, appeared in the most recent . issue. "She has demonstrated her hard work in grants, and on the township newsletter. " Committeeman Charles M. Leusner said. "We are lucky to have her." A former Democratic committeewoman here. Meers was born in Philadelphia and raised in Secane. Delaware County Her parents ow ned a house in Villas, so she a parHime resident of the county before moving here eight years ago. She currently resides on Mechanic Street in Court House. Meers has three children. Billy. 10. Timm\ . 8. and Christie. 5. She is legally separated from her husband