11 Herald - Lantern Pispalch 26 March '86 •

County Planners Ride To Wastewater Rescue

By JOE ZELNIK COURT HOUSE - The county Planning Department will attempt to free six communities whose commercial growth has been frozen by the state because they have neither municipal sewers nor waste water management plans.' The county will prepare a wastewater management plan, a "significant and important undertaking." according to county Planning Director Elwood Jarmer. Most in jeopardy currently are Upper and Dennis townships, considered the county's prime growth area, where large shopping centers and a campground cannot go ahead without DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) approval. BUT WOODBINE, and portions of West Cape May. Lower and Middle Townships also are unsewered and planless, according to Jarmer. J L . Lomax & Associates. Swainton environmental consultants, reportedly is planning to prepare a plan for Upper to expedite Cedar Square Shopping Center in Seaville. where an additional 35 retail stores are intended. Jarmer told the planning board last week that the county would need six mon ths to prepare a draft and have a final plan to DEP "within a year." "I'd like to have it sooner," he said, "but there has to be a public hearing, feedback, etc. So this is a timetable to shoot for." ONE OF THE BIG questions a wastewater management plan must answer, said Jarmer: "Who will regulate the black boxes (septi^ systems)?" DEP wants a "copermittee" on its pollution discharge elimination permits so that if a private concern has problems some "responsible party" can be held liable. Developers went to the county MUA < Municipal Utilities Authority) last week to ask it to take on the job. but got a chilly reception. "I CAN UNDERSTAND

your dilemma,"' MUA chairman William F. X. ; Band told the developers. - according to an MUA news ? release, "but it there any ? reason why the township. > which will be gaining the i ratables. shouldn't also r take on the liability of ber ing a co-permittee? t "We don't nfeed this added liability." agreed Comt missioner John Pantalone, I according to the release. The MUA agreed to set

up a meeting that would include the DEP. MUA. local officials and developers. The pf-oblem arose last fall when DEP lowered the amount of effluent requiring a discharge permit to 2.000 gallons a day from 8.000 gallons a day. Immediately affected were Cedar Square. Plaza 9. a shopping center in Marmora. and Coastal Shores Resort, a proposed 580-site campground in Dennis.

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