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Around the world Diamonds in the Alanna Deeken of Keyport will Garden State spend her junior year in high Minor league baseball has come ZiXil - Search our Classified school circumnavigating the globe into New Jersey in a big way for weekly / Garage Sales Page 16__________________ Page 45 Serving Aberdeen, Hazlet, Holmdel, Keyport, Matawan and Middletown AUGUST 4,1999 40 cents VOLUME 29, NUMBER 31 W ater restrictions ignored, official sa y s M onday’s state drought uled to run through October, according to Walsh. warning a low er priority The county also declared a county- than local restrictions wide drought emergency July 19. Both actions require county residents BY MARY DEMPSEY to restrict outdoor water use to odd-even Staff W rite r days, depending on their street addresses. For example, residents of odd-numbered A t least two local residents have had houses can only water their lawns or gar their water service shut off as dens on odd-numbered days. Shorelands Water Co. responds to New Jersey-American Water Co., violators of the company’s local water which supplies water to much of the area, emergency declaration made on July 6. is still waiting for state approval to use “We are on a mandatory odd-even sys three emergency wells at the Swimming tem and we have found little or no compli River Reservoir in Shrewsbury which ance,” Shorelands President Mike Walsh were last used in the late 1980s, Lendel said on Monday. Jones, director of government affairs at the Shorelands, located in Hazlet, supplies company’s Haddon Heights headquarters, water to residents and businesses in Hazlet said Monday. and the northern section of Holmdel. “There’s a good chance that more strin “My biggest concern is that people gent restrictions will occur in Monmouth who violate the restrictions raise the County,” Jones said. potential for fire,” Walsh explained. Unlike Shorelands, which is aggres “As we deplete the (Manasquan) sively enforcing its restrictions with the Reservoir to water grass, we are also low help of police, New Jersey-American is ering the water needed to extinguish fires,” relying on towns to enforce the county’s he said. “We are not yet at that point, but restrictions. the potential is there.” Continued dry weather prompted Gov. A lack of rain over the last two months Whitman to issue a statewide drought forced Shorelands to issue emergency water restrictions to customers in early warning Monday, but Walsh said, “The July. governor’s warning is a lower priority Shorelands’ restrictions are enforced through local ordinances and are sched Continued on page 43 AUGUSTO F. MENEZES Underwater debris is exposed as drought conditions continue to lower the water level at the Swimming River Reservoir, viewed here from Phalanx Road in Middletown. M id'town open space plan hearing tonight BY LINDA P eNICOLA public hearing on the township’s Open Staff W rite r Space Preservation Plan for 7 p.m. tonight in the main meeting room at Town Hall. M iddletown officials are not The plan, which identifies parcels in the dawdling in their quest to have township suitable for preservation or recre an open space plan firmly in ation, is being considered by the board as place, a plan that will make it more likely an amendment to the master plan, the that they will receive county and state township’s long-range development plan, AUGUSTO F. MENEZES open space funds. 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