Council Delays Water Study Bye
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·--·'C-'-r.&;lll~'""'IQ.I•A& ~w&,a. • THIS WEEK IN SPORTS •:• Serving Greater Newark Since 191 0 •:• Published every Friday April 16, 1993 35¢ Council delays water study ByE. Fine mended by a city subcommittee Jiving near Del. 896 still report director, said another firm would E. Fine photo/The Post Post Staff Writer after monitoring showed high lev occasional di scoloring in th ei r be hired to design the new plant Glasgow's Fran Kulas slides into home with the win els of iron and manganese in the water. sometime after the DGS study is ning run In the Dragons' 8-7 win over William Penn The Newark City Council put eight wells across from the Castle The goal of the study by the completed. But city officials would last Thursday afternoon at Glasgow High. Article 1 B off a decision on a two-year Mall on Del. 72. University of Delaware Geologic receive information throughout the $143,000 water study to determine Since 1989, city officials have Survey (DGS) is to provide guide study rather than receiving it all at the source of the contamination worked around the problem by pur lines for building a water treatment one time, he said. IN THE NEWS occurring in the city's south well chasing water from the Wilmington plant to service the south well field Council member Irene Zych field. Suburban Water Company and aquifer. questioned why another consultant Newark police are on the look-out for the City officials also disclosed closing two of the Del. 72 wells. The study also will analyze the on top of the DGS staff was neces persons who vandalized or stole vehicles 2A Monday that plans for a new water Though the water treatment chemicals in the aquifer and at sary for designing the new plant. here last week. Details in Police Beat. treatment plant on Del. 72 could be plant on Paper Mill Road that was what rate the contamination is trav Further, she questioned whether all delayed by as much as two years. activated last fall also has helped eling. See WATER/2A: Flooding has increased along the banks of The water study was recom- minimize the problem, residents Joe Dombrowski, city water the Christiana Creek in Ritenhouse Park, 3A residents tell the city. Kids beware: Your local volunteer fire department has acquired the ultimate 'super 3A No roof soaker.' Bragging If light depravation gets you down, you are not alone. Life without sun can be SA work at depressing. A complete report. rights Looking for a diversion? Newark has CHS much to offer. See our calendar listing of 11A Andrea Shupe's grand local events, concerts, nightlife, exhibits and mother, left, tells the ByE. Fine class at McVey Post Staff Writer AROUND THE FIELDS Elementary School why she believes Andrea Is No roof work at Christiana special during Adrianne Maloney pitched the St. Mark's High will be done during school hours when students return from Grandparent's Day softball team to a 3-1 win over Caravel 18 observance on April 8. Academy last Wednesday. 1B spring vacation next week, a school official promised Christina Grandparents had the board of education members. chance to spend the Newark High School's always-tough Dr. Capes Riley, director of day, eat lunch and girls' tennis team is off to an undefeated 18 planning and development, said watch a performance at start this spring. Tuesday at the board's monthly the school. Below, stu meeting that everything but the dents In Aline Wright's Newark Parks and Recreation Softball roof's final layer, or slagging, first grade class at Leagues get underway this week with East 38 would be completed by Friday. McVey lleten aa atu-- Since Monday, crews have been End Cafe looking to continue its dominance dents Introduce their of local action. working 10-hour days to finish the final phase of the $900,000 job, grandparents. $50 WINNER! which Riley said would take I 0 days, "weather permitting." Tonja Castaneda photos/The Post Andrew Bohatiuk of Christiana Meadows in Bear is But those words have followed students, teachers and other staff this week's winner of The Post Basketball Contest. around Christiana High like a bad He receives a $50 gift certificate. Look inside this odor. In fact, a bad odor is what week's Postfor your entry blank. the roof work had created through out the building since last fall. How bad? INDEX "We're fed up," said Karen Bell, a 15-year-old Christiana High freshman. "What are we supposed NEWS 1-12A RELIGION 9A to do, go to school and hold our POLICE 2A EVENTS 11A breath for six-and-a-half hours?" Bell, whose sinus problems COMMUNITY 3A ARTS 12A have been aggravated by the odors, OPINION 4A SPORTS 1-48 was among 22 students who took LIFESTYLE BA CLASSIFIEDS 5-88 the day off after staging a protest. Recently, the odor has spread outside into the courtyard, where students at one time could go to escape it during lunchtime, she said. Jason McDonald, 18, said there No closings of also have been incidents of debris falling down from the ceiling that Rt. 896 expected See STINK/3A ByE. Fine Jamison, a review engineer with Post Staff Writer the Delaware Department of Something really is fishy this year Department of Transportation Road improvements on Del. 896 (De!DOT). between Welsh Tract Road and ByE. Fine Country Store." and live bait for fi shing fresh old Bear native. He said fishing Chestnut Hill Road were begun Work has been done during Post Staff Writer Brennan, in his words, sells any water. presents an opportunity to be alone earlier this month, which are what has been identified as the off thing that catches fish, offering a "Everybody out there has a par expected to make traffic conditions peak hours by DelDOT staff: 9 It's 3:30a.m. and the parking lot large selection of rods, reels, lures ticular feeling," said the 46-year- See TROUT/6A safer in what is considered a high a.m. to 3 p.m. in front of the old store on accident area. "As of right now, we don't Cleveland Avenue in Newark slow By 1995, the road will be anticipate having to close down Rt. ly fills up. It's miserable outside. widened on both sides, and a medi 896," said Andy Bowman, a Rain falls, the temperature is in the an strip will be built. Work also DeiDOT engineer. To compensate 30s. will be done on a small piece of for the occasional need to close Four guys sit in an old car; the Del. 4 leading to the University of down a given lane, DeiDOT offi driver eats peanuts and throws the Delaware on Rt. 896. cials want contractors to work at shells out the window. A guy seat Though traffic capacity along night between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., he ed behind him smokes, occasional the two-thirds of a mile strip won't said. Bowman said officials will ly opening his window to let his be significantly increased, " it's have to get Newark officials to ashes drop among the mess of going to flow smoother because grant them a waiver from the city's peanut shells scattered below. there will be no turns," said David noise ordinance. It's still two hours until trout season begins, but these guys know half the battle is finding a spot away from traffic, away from peo Owner, vendor talk, ple, away from noise of any kind. Around 4 a.m., they all get out of the car to go inside "This given another week Country Store" for some last minute shopping. The store opened in 1980 and may be the only full B~' E. Fine before Triboletti. service tackle shop north of Post Staf(Wr1ter Stapleford, who owns 90 East Middletown and south of New Main Cafe, applied for a permit to Castle. A hotdog vendor and a restau sell hotdogs, sandwiches, fruit and Years ago, it was customary to rant owner have another week to drinks on March I . pitch tents along the creek before settle their di spute over a spot in 'Triboletti and lawyer Richard first day of the season. Old friends front of the Wilmington Trust McCann testified on April 5 the who'd lost touch would use the building on Main Street. city's 1986 vendor's regulations night to catch up on Lhe happenings Vendor Tony Triboletti did not specify licensing was done of each other's lives. appealed City Secretary Susan on a first come, first served basis, "We'd spend the night talking E. Fine photo/The POif Lamblack' s ruling to award the the provision Lamblack used as a about boxing and football, girls Brennan shows off a selection of the artificial lures he sells at "This Country Store" on spot to Fred Stapleford who sub and divorces, births and deaths," Cleveland Avenue. · mitted hi s paperwork and fee See DISPUTE/SA said Bob Brennan, who owns "This Page 2a • The Post, April16, 1993 For News Call (302) 737-0724 • Classified 1-800-220-1230 fOR THE POLICE BEAT . Attempted burglary: ing on the unit block of Church their passenger-side windows April II, a vehicle drove onto the Sometime between Saturday, April Road heard his car alarm go off. smashed and had damage to the front lawn of a home on the unit 10, and Monday, April 12, 15 When he went out to his driveway, dashboards in an attempt to steal block of Townsend Road, Newark RECORD doors at the Comfort fnn on South he saw about 15 men run from his the radios.