J,LEX. liB. RUTGERS._ NEW 0~ -~ {l(~he JUN 3 1985 nD • I rnV'T PUBLaS : c~~\i£ Jne an er Ne~le_tter of th:e New Jersey Pinelands Commission

Vol. V, No. 1 ., JANUARY-MARCH 1985

! C'.· . . • u..; __ "f,., .... · . , The Commission's report represents the consensus often · ·· ~ scientists on a technical advisory committee and concludes that exporting Pinelands water in large amounts would degrade the near,-pristine quality of Pinelands water and significantly reduce the amount of water available for local industries such as cranberry and blueberry farming. The removal of substantial amounts of ground water would also lower Pinelands river flows which would significantly harm marine life inNew Jersey's largest bay. "The hydrologic relationship between the Mullica River and the Great Bay estuary is especially critical. Changes in the quality and quantity of freshwater flowing to Great Bay can have profound effects on what is generally considered to be the most ecologically valuable estuary in New Jersey," the report states. Lower flows from Pine lands rivers may seriously harm the state's shellfishing industry. For example, a significant drop in the Pinelands water table would cause saltwater to intrude farther up the Mullica River, permitting oyster predators to CRANBERRY farming is one ofseveral traditional Pin~ reach and destroy oyster seed beds, the report notes. lands industries which depend upon enormous amounts of Ninety-eight percent of Camden County's estimated water clean water. demand of 97 million gallons per day is supplied by the Potomac-Raritan-Magothy aquifers. However, over­ pumping of these aquifers has caused saltwater and landfill Parker Cites Water Export Dangers contamination of this water source, resulting in a 15 million Pinelands aquifers should not be used to supply metro­ gallon per day projected shortfall in metropolitan Camden. politan Camden's water needs, according to Pinelands The report concludes that "because of the potentially Commission chairman Franklin Parker. adverse cumulative effects of removing water from the Parker has asked Governor Thomas Kean and Department Cohansey, exportation of water from the aquifer is not a of Environmental Protection Commissioner Robert Hughey viable alternative for meeting the water supply needs of the to help end a DEP study that is examining the feasibility of metropolitan Camden area." pumping water from Pine lands aquifers to supply the Camden In January the Pinelands Commission adopted a resolution area. opposing a recommendation by American Water Works The exportation of significant amounts ofPinelands water Service Company for a 10 year study of the environmental would deplete water supplies for area farmers, seriously effects of sustained ground water withdrawal from a Cohansey harm the Pinelands ecology, and endanger marine life inNew well field. Several municipal and county governments in the Jersey's bays, according to a technical report provided to Pinelands have adopted similar resolutions. Governor Kean and Hughey by Parker. "This report, in my opinion, further buttresses the Pine­ lands Commission's position that such an action would have devastating and long term effects on the Pinelands and our efforts to protect it," Parker stated in his letter to the Pinelands Development Update Governor. The report, "The Ecological Implications of Exporting Since the Comprehensive Management Plan took effect in Water from the Cohansey Aquifer," was based upon infor­ January 1981, 12,443 new homes have been approved for mation provided to the Pinelands Commission by a panel of construction in the Pinelands. scientists. The report was prepared by the Commission in Nearly all ofthese approvals (12,345) were fornew homes response to the Department of Environmental Protection in the outer Protection Area of the Pines. The Commission study which identifies the Cohansey and Kirkwood aquifers has also approved 602 commercial and industrial projects as one of several potential water sources for the Camden and has approved waivers from Plan regulations that would area. The Commission's report states that even a slight drop allow for the eventual construction of 12,485 new homes. in the Pinelands water table caused by large-scale pumpage Waivers have been denied for the construction of 6,646 new r.;ould destroy native plant and animal habitats, particularly homes. All215 public development projects proposed for the w-etland habitats wpich support rare plant and animal species. Pinelands Area have been approved. Hogan Named to Commission East Plains Use Plan Endorsed Burlington County solicitor Michael J. Hogan_ witS rec;:~l}tlY selected as the county's new representative on the Pinelands The Pinelands Commission has endorsed a land manage­ Commission. Hogan will replace Commission vice chairman ment plan for the 8,500 acre East Plains pigmy forest leased Robert Shinn who resigned after his election to the State by the New Jersey Air National Guard at Warren Grove in Assembly on February 19. Ocean County. Shinn had been the county's representative on the Com­ The plan, prepared by the National Park Service, mission and its vice chairman since its inception in 1979. recommends the establishment of a scientific advisory com­ Shinn, a Burlington County freeholder since 1976, sponsored mittee to help the National Guard manage this area which the county's 1977 Pinelands conservation bond issue and contains the Guard's practice bombing range. The plan also initiated the county's Conservation Easement and Pinelands recommends the revegetation of disturbed areas in the Development Credit Exchange Board. Plains, development of a fire management program that Hogan has served as an attorney for the freeholder board would help maintain the pigmy forest, control of vehicular since 1977 and helped set up and administer the county's access, and the permitting of compatible public recreation. Pinelands credit exchange program. A lifelong resident of The East Plains is part of the 12,000 acre Pinelands pigmy Burlington County, Hogan currently resides with his family forest where full grown trees range between four and six feet in Medford Lakes. He is a member of the state and county high. This pigmy pine forest is the largest of its kind in the bar associations and a graduate of Montclair State College United States and forms part of the Oswego River watershed. and Stetson University College of Law. Hogan has law The Air National Guard has agreed to implement the land offices in Burlington City and Medford. He is a member of use plan in cooperation with the Pinelands Commission, the the Mt. Holly Rotary Club and a trustee of the Drenk Department of Environmental Protection, and the National Memorial Guidance Center. Park Service. Under the agreement endorsed by the Pine lands Commission at its March 8 meeting, the Commission will be responsible for convening the technical advisory committee that will help the National Guard manage the area's natural Hamilton, Hammonton Master resources. The Commission will also help the Guard prepare and distribute information on public use of the area and work Plans Ok'd with the Department of Environmental Protection in the acquisition of that portion ofthe East Plains which is located Two Atlantic County municipalities-- Hamilton Township outside of the Warren Grove weapons range. and the Town of Hammonton-- have had their revised master plans and zoning ordinances certified as being in compliance with the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan. The Commission's recent approval of the plans and ordinances for these two towns means that 39 of the 52 Pinelands Area municipalities have completed the plan and Pentagon Cancels Toxic Storage ordinance revisions required by the Pinelands Protection Plan Act. The Pentagon has cancelled preliminary plans to use Hamilton, the largest municipality in New Jersey, is one of Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Center for the temporary three towns in Atlantic County with Pinelands Regional storage of toxic wastes. Growth Areas. It is in these areas where the bulk of new Pinelands Commission staff members had advised Pen­ residential and commercial growth in Atlantic County's tagon officials that the storage oftoxic chemicals would have Pinelands will take place. The Commission's approval of violated the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan Hamilton's master plan and ordinance on March 8 was which forbids the acceptance or disposal of toxic, chemical, preceded by more than a year of intense discussions between petroleum, and nuclear wastes in the Pinelands. Toxic the Commission and local officials over the extent and wastes generated by area military installations would have density of new residential development in the township. The peen stored temporarily at the Lakehurst base before being township's approved plan and ordinance allows for phased shipped to a permanent storage site elsewhere. The air base residential growth so that local officials can better plan for encompasses 7,400 acres of Pine lands in the Ocean County municipal services such as sewers and schools. In addition to municipalities of Jackson, Manchester, and Lakehurst. Hamilton's Regional Growth Area ( 11,6 21 acres), the Commission executive director Terrence Moore, in a . township also contains a Rur:al Development Area (15,580 letter to the base's commanding officer, Captain F. B. Boice, acres), a large Forest Area ( 40,270 acres), an Agricultural noted that a regional toxic storage facility in the Pinelands Production Area ( 1,040 acres), a Federal Installation Area "would serve to further increase the threat of accidental (780 acres), and the Pinelands Village of Mizpah. spillage, etc. which in turn, places the 1 7 trillion gallon Hammonton, a longtime farming community in the western aquifer at greater risk." part of the county, has a large portion of its land area designated for agricultural uses by the Comprehensive Management Plan. However, the Commission agreed to a request by Hammonton officials to expand the size of the town's residential and commercial zones in areas where no large farming operations existed.

2 Pinelands Education Council Formed Nine distinguished New Jersey educators have been named to a panel that will help the Commission develop educational programs about the Pinelands. The Pinelands Educational Advisory Council was created by a Commission resolution and will make specific recom­ mendations for the Commission's education program which is being funded by grants from the Geraldine R Dodge Foundation and the Victoria Foundation. The council, which held its first meeting on February 13, will also evaluate current New Jersey school programs about the Pinelands and recommend ways to improve and expand them. The council is being chaired by Janet Jackson, educational director at the Philadelphia Zoo and former president of the New Jersey Audubon Society. The council also includes Dr. Walter Brower, Dean of the School of Education at Rider College; Robert Elder, program planning director for Medford public schools; Walter Freas, education director for New Jersey Network; Dr. Sandra Hartzog, associate professor of biology and environmental studies at Stockton State College; Shaun O'Rourke, director of the Cooper Nature Center in Toms River; Terry Patton, environmental educational coor­ dinator at Cherry Hill schools; Dr. Eugene Vivian, former director of the Conservation and Environmental Studies BOTANICALLY diverse, the Makepeace Lake area is an Center; and Dr. Paul Winkler, the Department ofEducation's important link in the Pinelands wildlife corridor. curriculum director for southern New Jersey. State to Buy Makepeace Lake Pine Barrens Weekend Offered State and federal money will be used to buy 8,000 acres of The Audubon Society is again sponsoring a weekend of Pinelands in the vicinity of Makepeace Lake in Atlantic field trips and seminars to explore the wonders of the New County. Jersey Pinelands. The Makepeace Lake acquisition is an important part of The trips and seminars will be held at the Mt. Misery the state's efforts to link ecologically important areas of the Methodist Conference Center, Route 70, in Pemberton Pinelands by placing them under public ownership. The Township from May 31 to June 2. The cost is $85 for Mullica River and Great Egg Harbor watersheds are located Audubon Society members and $100 for non-members. This near Makepeace Lake, and the area contains an unusually fee includes housing, meals, and a choice ofover 20 field trips wide variety of both native and rare plant species. led by some of New Jersey's best field naturalists. People The federal government recently approved $4,874,000 for may also participate in Saturday's field trips for $25. the purchase of land near Makepeace Lake. The state's Additional information can be obtained by writing or calling Green Acres program will provide an additional $1 ,87 4,000. the Rancocas Nature Center, RD. 1, Rancocas Road, Since the Pine lands Comprehensive Management Plan took Mount Holly, New Jersey 08060, (609) 261-2495. effect, 32,000 acres have been added to state parks, forests, and wildlife management areas in the Pines. The Plan Public Comment Sought recommends that a total of 100,000 acres ofenvironmentally on Pines Plan important acreage in the Pinelands be placed under public ownership. The Commission will be seeking public testimony in June The federal government's recent acquisition grant means on specific changes that have been proposed to the Pinelands that it has provided $20,483,500 of the $26 million authorized Comprehensive Management Plan. for ~inelands planning and land acquisition by the 1978 A draft report which details these recommendations can be N ~t~onal Parks and Recreation Act. That act designated 1.1 obtained after April 15 by writing to the Pinelands Com­ rrnlhon acres of New Jersey's Pinelands as the nation's first mission office. A public hearing will be scheduled in early National Reserve. · June to gather comments on the proposed changes. Written testimony can also be submitted to the Commission. The Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan has governed land use in the million acre Pine lands since January 1981. The Pinelands Commission is currently conducting its Development Bulletin Available first formal review of the Plan. The Commission's Plan A biweekly bulletin which lists the status of Pinelands Review Subcommittee has held hearings and meetings on Area development applications is available from the Pine­ proposed changes to the Plan for more than a year. The lands Commission. The yearly subscription cost for this subcommittee is expected to recommend formal changes to the full15 member Commission by the summer of1985. Any compute~zed listing is $15. Checks should be made payable to the Pmelands Commission and sent to the attention of changes to the Comprehensive Management Plan will then D.onna Levesque, Pinelands Commission, P.O. Box 7, New be proposed as regulations and reviewed again by the public. Ltsbon, N.J. 08064. These changes would then have to be approved by the Commission, the Governor, and the Secretary of the Interior. 3 Upcoming Dates PINELANDS COMMISSION May 10- 9 a.m., Pinelands Commission meeting, South­ State Appointees ampton Township Municipal Building, Route 206 and Candace McKee Ashmun ...... Far Hills Retreat Road, Vincentown. B. Budd Chavooshian ...... Trenton June 7 - 9 a.m., Pinelands Commission meeting, South­ Thomas B. Darlington ...... New Lisbon ampton Township Municipal Building. James Hyres ...... Jackson (For information on subcommittee meeting dates, contact · Stephen V. Lee, III ...... Tabernacle Bob Bembridge at the Pinelands Commission office.) Franklin E. Parker, Chairman ...... Mendham John E. Vaughan ...... Ocean City County Appointees Joel Jacovitz ...... Atlantic Michael J. Hogan ...... Burlington Joan Batory ...... Camden William J. Brown ...... Cape May Brian McFadden ...... Cumberland Charles Newcomb ...... Gloucester Alan A very ...... Ocean Federal Appointee James W. Coleman, Jr...... Cherry Hill Executive Director...... Terrence D. Moore Assistant Director ...... William Harrison Assistant Director ...... John Stokes

New Jersey Pinelands Commission BULK RATE P.O. Box 7 New Lisbon, New Jersey 08064 US POSTAGE (609) 894-9342 PAID NEW LISBON, N.J. PERMIT NO.- 1

Bob Bembridge ...... Editor Norma Campbell ...... Public Programs Assistant

4 The ALEX.UBRU1Pinelander jHL 8 i981" "' Newsletter of the New Jersey Pinelands Commission Of3tffrt'0Ng - · GOV'I.P ~ w ' Aprii·June1985

,!•' Moore noted that the county failed to demonstrate that no other landfill site or waste disposal technology was available. Camden County officials appealed the Commission statf decision and have requested a hearing before the state Office of Administrative Law. After taking testimony, an adminis­ trative law judge will issue a recommendation to the 15 member Pinelands Commission as to whether the statf waiver denial should be upheld or overturned. At an April 29 public hearing on the county's wai\er request about 350 area residents appeared to protest the county's landfill plans. Winslow Township mayor Dominic Maiese noted that he and other mayors of towns along the Great Egg Harbor River opposed Camden County's plans to expand the Winslow landfill. Other local officials and members of the state legislature also appeared at the hearin2 to protest the county's landfill plans. Winslow resident Barbara Rodio criticized county engi­ neering studies which recommended the landfill site and asked Commission representatives to "do your job" and turn down the county's request. Mullica resident Alison Fiocchi said the Commission should "lock the door" of the Pine lands to new landfills. Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan regulations TH/5 GREAT EGG Harbor River is the second largest river prohibit the construction or expansion of landfills in the in rfte Pinelands. Camden County's proposal to locate a Pinelands unless several conditions are met. Camden County reg;onallandfi/1 along this river was recently recommended would have had to demonstrate that there are no feasible for denial by Pinelands Commission executive director alternative solid waste disposal sites outside the Pinelands Terrence Moore. portion of the county, that there was a compelling public need for the expansion of the Winslow landfill, and that no Laf1dfill Near Great Egg Harbor substanial impairment of the resources of the Pinelands would occur. Moore stated that Camden County ot1icials River Rejected failed to meet any of these conditions. The Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan requires Pine lands Commission executive director Terrence Moore has rreliminarily denied a request by Camden County that all landfills in the Pinelands Area close by August 8. 1990. This is required because of the high water table and officials to locate a regional landfill along the Great Egg porous, sandy soil of the Pine lands which make the I 7 trillion · Harbor River. gallon Cohansey Aquifer particularly vulnerable to pollution. The Great Egg Harbor River is the second largest river in the rt1illion acre Pinelands region. It is one of 19 rivers desig11ated as ··wild and scenic" by the Pinelands Com­ Rutgers Model Aids Wetlands preh~nsive Management Plan. Camden County officials had requested waivers from Protection Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan regulations A model that is designed to estimate the distance needed to that rrohibited the expansion of the Winslow Township buffer Pine lands wetlands from development has been adopted municipal landfill into a county-wide landfill. Winslow Town­ for use by the Pinelands Commission. ship officials and area residents opposed the expansion of the The model will be used by the Commission staff as a existing landfill which is currently scheduled to close in guideline to help determine if an individual development can 1990, be safely built within 300 feet of a wetland. In !'lis April25 letter denying the county's request, Moore The Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan prohibits noted that the county's plan was "inconsistent with the building within 300 feet of a wetland unless the applicant can purposes, objectives, and the general spirit and intent" of the demonstrate that construction within a shorter distance will 1979 Pinelands Protection Act and the 1978 National Parks not harm the wetland The buffer delineation model adopted and R-ecreation Act which designated the Pinelands as the by the Commission in April utilizes a formula to determine countfis first National Reserve. when a buffer less than 300 feet is sufficient to protect the (continued on page 3! Pines Plan Changes Proposed at In addition to requesting the DEP study. the Commission also agreed at its May 10 meeting to order the immediate Hearing closure of approximately 20 miles of sand roads through Nearly 100 people packed the Southampton Township state-owned land in the Pines where unrestricted public Municipal Building recently to comment on specific changes access in the past has resulted in illegal garbage dumping and which are being proposed to the Pinelands Comprehensive vandalism. These roads are located at Atsion Lake, Batsto, Management Plan. Pakim Pond, Whitesbog, Lake Absegarni, Double Trouble, The June 3 public hearing was the latest stage of a two year and <;everal other state lands in the Pine1ands. The Com­ effort by the Pinelands Commisssion to review the Plan to miss,, ·n agreed to close these roads after holding several determine if any changes are warranted. This is the first meetings with sportsmen groups and DEP officials. formal review of the Pine lands Plan. The Commission· s Plan Review Subcommittee has re­ commended 192 regulatory changes or administrative actions to make the Plan more effective. The proposed changes Commission Selects McFadden include the adoption of more effective methods to prevent illegal or improper woodcutting, the prohibition of under­ Vice-Chairman ground natural gas storage facilities, and the encouragement Brian Mcfadden, Cumberland County's representative of clustered residential development to preserve open space. on the Pinelands Commission since 1980, was recently Former Pinelands Commissioner Gary Patterson, re­ selected to be the Commission's new vice-chairman. presenting the Sierra Club, called on the Commission to Mcfadden replaces Robert Shinn, Burlington County's evaluate the cumulative effect of new development on the representative to the Pinelands Commission since its in­ Pine lands ecosystem. William Haines, Jr. of the American ception in 197 9. Shinn resigned from the Commission after Cranberry Growers Association asked the Plan Review his election to the State Assembly on February 19. McFadden Subcommittee to review the forthcoming report by Governor >\as selected by the Commission to be its new vice-chairman Kean's study commission on Pinelands agriculture before at the Commission's April 12 meeting. issuing its final recommendations. Brad Thompson of South­ Mcfadden, a resident of Millville, has served as chairman ampton suggested that the Commission involve local residents of the Cumberland County Planning Board and president of more in its decision-making process. Michele Byers of the the New Jersey Federation of Planning Officials. He is a New Jersey Conservation Foundation asked the Commission member of Cumberland County's Agricultural Development to place stricter limitations on infill settlements in the Board. Mcfadden is chairman of the Pinelands Com­ Preservation Area and monitor the use and effectiveness of mission's Agriculture Subcommittee which advises the innovative septic systems which are required on undersized Commission on policies relating to the farming community in lots in the Pines. David Hoskins of the Environmental the seven county Pinelands region. Defense Fund recommended that the Commission place Mcfadden also serves on the Commission's Conformance greater emphasis on its enforcement of environmental stand­ Subcommittee which works with municipal officials on the ards. New Jersey Builders Association representative David revisions to their master plans and zoning ordinances required Fisher asked the Commission to consider revising the by the 1979 Pinelands Protection Act. Mcfadden is also a Pinelands Development Credit program to allow residential member of the Commission's Plan Review Subcommittee, construction bonus densities of over 50 percent. Personnel/Budget Subcommittee, and Intergovernmental The Plan Review Subcommittee will issue its final re­ Affairs Subcommittee. commendations this summer. After the full Commission acts on them, the recommendations will be written as formal regulatory changes to the Comprehensive Management Plan and will be subject to additional public comment. Any changes to the Plan would have to be approved by the full Commission, the Governor, and the Secretary of the Interior. Commission Proposes Wilderness Study The Pinelands Commission has asked the Department of Environmental Protection to consider whether portions of state land in the Preservation Area should be designated ··natural areas" which would be closed to motor vehicles. The Commission's request was in response to a .Sierra Club proposal that wilderness areas of approximately 70,000 acres be set aside in Wharton State Forest and the pigmy pine" Plains." The Sierra Club's proposal has been opposed by a coalition of sportsmen groups that use sand roads in these areas. The Commission has asked the Department of Environ­ mental Protection to study the feasibility of designating PINELANDS ESSAY contest winner Kaushik Dalla ofCherry Hill(th~rd from n'ght) receives his winner's plaque from Pinelands CommiSSIOn additional natural areas in state parks and forests in the executive director Terrence Moore. From the left: Terry Pallon, Cherry Pines. The Natural Area System Act of 1976 was set up to Hill environmental education coordinator: third place winner Brenda Koenig; Moore; Dalla; second place winner Michael Jarvi~: a'!d Stockton protect valuable natural resources throughout the state. To School principal John Morrow. More than 300 Cherry Hill s1xth graders date, 41 sites comprising 21 ,619 acres of state land have submilled essays. been designated as natural areas. 2 Maurice River Township in rural Cumberland County has responded to the garbage problem by adopting an anti-litter ordinance with a maximum $1,000 fine. Commissioner Hughey recently notified the Pinelands Commission that his agency is strengthening its waste law enforcement programs and that the DEP is urging counties to develop interagency enforcement agreements. Hughey noted in a recent letter to Moore that "coordinated efforts by our respective agencies and local and county governments and an aware public will do much to correct the problem. Your continued efforts in this regard are appreciated." The Pinelands Commission is interested in ideas that will help curtail illegal garbage dumping in the Pines. The best ideas submitted by three members of the public will entitle each of them to a $50 prize. Suggestions should be mailed to Terrence Moore at the Pinelands Commission office, P.O. Box 7, New Lisbon, New Jer.sey 08064.

Legislature OKs PDC Bank --....; The State Senate and Assembly have approved a bill that --- ....._ would create a state bank to aid the sale and use of Pine lands rARBAGE dumping in the Pines mars the beauty of the Development Credits. The legislation now requires the mdscape and threatens water quality. signature of Governor Kean before it can take effect. The bill, S-1945, sponsored by Senator Raymond Lesniak Commission Seeks Halt and Assemblywoman Barbara Kalik, was unanimously to Illegal Dumping approved by the Assembly on May 6. The bill was also The Pinelands Commission has asked for help from state unanimously approved by the State Senate on June 17. The and local officials to halt illegal garbage dumping in the legislation is an amended version of a bill which was Pines. approved by the State Legislature in 198 3 but vetoed by Commission executive director Terrence Moore has asked Governor Kean in January 1984. At that time Kean said the Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner bill did not provide enough South Jersey representation on Robert Hughey, county health and waste management the bank's board of directors or allocate sufficient funds. The officials, and Pine lands Area mayors to cooperate in an effort current version of the bill contains several of the amendments to prosecute illegal dumpers and raise public awareness of requested by the Governor. the dumping problem in the Pines. A total of$6.5 million would be appropriated for the bank ··The Pinelands Commission believes that a watchful and to purchase credits from Pinelands landowners. The credits involved public, combined with a cooperative enforcement would be resold later at auction. The state bank would also effort by government agencies, will prevent or sharply curtail guarantee operating loans to Pinelands Area farmers. llegal dumping activities," Moore wrote to county and The Pine lands Comprehensive Management Plan provides nunicipal officials. landowners in the Preservation Area and Agricultural Pro­ . Moore no~ed that Pine lands area residents could help halt duction Areas transferable development rights (credits) tllegal dumpmg by promptly reporting possible violations to which can be sold to developers and used to increase building ocal police departments or county health boards. Moore densities in Pinelands Regional Growth Areas. There have also recommended that state, county, and local governments been several purchases of Pinelands Development Credits join in the prosecution of illegal dumpers. by developers during the past three years. Burlington County . Illegal garbage dumping has always been a problem in the has also purchased 41.5 credits from county landowners . Pmelands because of its large, unpatrolled wooded areas. However, Moore noted that the problem is likely to increase With t~e recent closing of landfills throughout the state and the fa1lure of many counties and towns to come up with Rutgers Model (continued from page 1) a.lt~rnatlve plans for disposing garbage. Moore added that wetland. The model, developed and tested by Rutgers :1sm~ disposal fees at those landfills remaining open could scientists Ralph Good and Charles Roman, can determine also mcrease illegal garbage dumping in the Pinelands. , The 197 5 Solid Waste Management Act requires every the required buffer length by predicting the effect of an county m New Jersey to devise a county-wide waste disposal individual development on wetland water quality, animal plan. The Department of Environmental Protection has habitats, vegetation, scenery, and cultural values. The Com­ closed 194 unsafe landfills throughout the state. Of the 194 mission's Work Plan Subcommittee will monitor the use of landfills ordered closed, 24 are in the Pinelands Area. the wetlands model over the next year to determine its effectiveness. The Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan requires Wetlands comprise about one-quarter of the Pinelands tha~ ~II landfills in the Pines be closed by August 8, 1990. and serve as habitats for native plants and animals, maintain Th1s 1s r~quired because of the high water table and porous, water quality, and protect traditional industries such as sandy so1l of the Pinelands which make the 17 trillion gallon Cohansey Aquifer particularly vulnerable to pollution. blueberry and cranberry farming and shellfishing. 3 Upcoming Dates PINELANDS COMMISSION August 6 - 7:30 p.m., - public hearing on proposed State Appointees regulatory changes to Article 4 of the Pinelands Compre­ Candace McKee Ashmun ...... Far Hills hensive Management Plan. Winslow Township Municipal B. Budd Chavooshian ...... Trenton Building, Route 73. Braddock Thomas B. Darlington ...... New Lisbon August 9 - 9 a.m., - Pinelands Commission meeting, James Hyres ...... Jackson Southampton Township Municipal Building, Route 206 and Stephen V. Lee, III ...... Tabernacle Retreat Road, Vincentown Franklin E. Parker, Chairman ...... Mendham John E. Vaughan ...... Ocean City September 6 - 9 a.m.,- Pinelands Commission meeting, Southampton Township Municipal Building County Appointees Joel Jacovitz ...... Atlantic (For information on subcommittee meeting dates, contact Michael J. Hogan ...... Burlington Bob Bembridge at the Pinelands Commission office.) Joan Batory ...... Camden William J. Brown ...... Cape May Pinelands Development Update Brian McFadden ...... Cumberland Charles Newcomb ...... Gloucester Since the Comprehensive Management Plan took effect in Alan Avery ...... Ocean January 1981, 13,034 new homes have been approved for Federal Appointee construction in the Pinelands. Nearly all of these approvals ( 12.936) were for new homes James W. Coleman, Jr...... Cherry Hill in the outer Protection Area of the Pines. The Commission Executive Director ...... Terrence D. Moore has also approved 646 commercial and industrial projects Assistant Director ...... William Harrison and has approved waivers from Plan regulations that would Assistant Director ...... John Stokes allow for the eventual construction of 12,513 new homes. Waivers have been denied for the construction of6,657 new homes. A total of249 public development projects proposed for the Pinelands Area have been approved.

New Jersey Pinelands Commission P.O. Box 7 BULK RATE New Lisbon, New Jersey 08064 US POSTAGE (609) 894-9342 PAID NEW LISBON, N.J. P ERMtT NO.- 1

Bob Bembridge ...... Editor Norma Campbell ...... Public Programs Assistant

4 The MAR 201986 ;;g; ~~F.c~~.£ inez ande r Newsletter of the New Jersey Pinelands Commission

Vol. VI, No. 1 January-March 1986

The bank will be governed by a nine member board of directors chaired by the State CommissionerofBanking. The board also includes the following members or their represent­ atives: the Secretary of Agriculture, the chairman of the Pinelands Commission, the Commissioner ofthe Department of Environmental Protection, and four members of the public who are residents of Pinelands counties. The board's public members will be appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of the Senate President and Assembly Speaker. The Pinelands Development Credit program is the first regional transferable development rights program in the country. Landowners in the Preservation Area and Agricul­ tural Production Areas of the Pinelands receive credits which can be sold to developers and used to increase the number of new homes that can be built in Pine lands Regional Growth Areas. The Pinelands Development Credit program received an added boost this November when state voters approved a ballot question authorizing $30 million for capital projects to support development in growth areas. (See related story.)

FORESTRY officials from around the world visited the Pines Plan Changes Get Initial OK Pinelands in October as part ofa tour of important natural After two and a half years of soliciting extensive testimony, areas in the United States. The tour is conducted each year the Pine lands Commission gave preliminary approval to 27 2 by the State Department and the University ofMichigan to regulatory changes, administrative actions, and studies teach internationalforesters about land use management in designed to make the Pine lands Comprehensive Management the US. Here Issac Ero of Nigeria speaks with William Plan more effective. Supernaugh of the National Park Service. Although most of the proposed regulatory changes are merely refinements of existing Comprehensive Management State PDC Bank Created Plan regulations or programs, some of the recommendations are more substantive--the prohibition of underground natural One of the key recommendations of the Pine lands Compre­ gas storage in the Pines, the protection of open space by hensive Management Plan became a reality recently when allowing residential clustering in Forest and Rural Develop­ Governor Kean signed into law a bill establishing a state ment Areas, additional forestry standards, and the setting of Pinelands Development Credit Bank. a l 0 year expiration date on Commission development The bank will buy and sell credits from landowners, approvals granted prior to January 14, 1981, the day the maintain a public registry of credit sellers and buyers, and Comprehensive Management Plan took effect. guarantee loans to Pinelands Area landowners, including These and other recommendations were adopted by the operating loans to farmers. Pine lands Commission in a special meeting on January 3 and The Pinelands Development Credit Bank Act was spon­ were the latest step in the Commission's first comprehensive sored by State Senator Raymond Lesniak and Assembly­ review of the Pinelands Plan. That review began in the fall of woman Barbara Kalik. The bill was originally introduced by 198 3 and has involved numerous meetings with environ­ Senator Lesniak in May 1982 but underwent several revisions mentalists, builders, farmers, local officials, and members of before it was finally signed by the Governor on August 28, the public. The Comprehensive Management Plan currently 1985. The bill authorizes $6.5 million for the operation of the requires the Commission to review the plan every three years bank. to determine if any changes should be made. Commission executive director Terrence Moore called Many of the recommendations approved by the Commission the creation of the credit bank one of the Commission's on January 3 must still be written as specific regulatory "biggest priorities" since the Comprehensive Management changes which will be presented at a public hearing. After Plan took effect in January 1981. Moore predicted that the additional public testimony is taken, the Pine lands Commission bank would increase the number of credit sales, thereby must vote whether to adopt the proposed regulatory changes. aiding property owners where Pine lands development restric­ tions are most stringent. If the Commission approves the regulatory changes, they (continued on page 2) Voters OK $30 Million for Growth The study commission recommended that the relationshi~ between the Pinelands Development Credit program and th~ Area Sewers, Water State Agricultural Retention and Development Program he! New Jersey voters overwhelmingly approved $30 million clarified so Pinelands farmers can participate in both pro-4 in grants and loans for Pinelands municipalities which are grams. The study commission report also stated its oppositio~ slated to receive most of the new development that will be to proposals to withdraw Pinelands water for use outside the allowed in the Pinelands. area except in cases of severe drought. The Pine lands Infrastructure Trust Bond Act approved by The study commission was chaired by New Jersey Secre­ voters on November 5 will fund public sewerage systems, tary of Agriculture Arthur Brown and included Assembly­ water supplies, and other capital improvement projects in woman Maureen Ogden of Essex County; area farmers Regional Growth Areas of the Pinelands. These areas William Haines and Edward Lipman; David Moore, execu­ comprise about 10 percent of the 933,000 acre Pinelands tive director of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation Area. real estate appraiser Alan Black; Rutgers economist Mad The grants and loans will ensure that these growth zones Killingworth; George Nieswand, former acting dean of Cool can develop without the environmental problems that fre­ College; and Hammonton Mayor George Mortellite.- quently plague areas solely dependent upon individual Copies of the report can be obtained by writing to the New septic systems and private wells, according to Commission Jersey Department of Agriculture, CN 330, Trenton, New executive director Terrence Moore. Jersey 08625. Increased development in Pine lands growth areas will also improve the market for Pinelands Development Credits, a Atlantic County Seeks transferable development right allotted to landowners in Landfill Approval growth-restricted areas of the Pinelands. These credits are sold by the landowners to developers who use them to Atlantic County officials are seeking Pinelands Com increase the number of new homes they can build in the mission approval for the construction of a new landfill at th• growth areas. Twenty-three of the 52 Pinelands Area Pancoast tract in Buena Vista Township and HamiltOJ municipalities contain Regional Growth Areas. Township. The Pinelands bond issue received widespread support Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan regulation: from both environmentalists and builders organizations. only allow new landfills in the Pine lands Area if a county ca1 Groups which supported the bond issue included the New demonstrate that there are no feasible sites outside thE Jersey Alliance for Action, the New Jersey Conservation Pinelands Area, that a new landfill is preferable to the Foundation, and the State League of Women Voters. continuation of an existing landfill, and that there are no The bond act, sponsored by State Senator William Gorm­ alternative disposal techniques. The Plan also requires that ley and Assemblyman Anthony Marsella, requires the at least half of the county be located within the Pinelands Pinelands Commission to develop an infrastructure master Area, that the new landfill will comply with all Department of plan that will identify those capital improvement projects Environmental Protection standards, that the landfill comply which are needed most. The grant and loan program will be with Pinelands Plan standards, and that the landfill will cease administered by the New Jersey Department of Environ­ operation by August 8, 1990. mental Protection. The program is voluntary, and municipal­ The Atlantic County freeholder board is seeking waivers ities and counties must apply to the Department of Environ­ from several Plan standards, claiming that there are nc mental Protection for the grants and loans and to the feasible alternative sites or disposal technologies and that Commission for approval of the project. there is a compelling public need for the location of a new The bond act legislation also requires that municipalities landfill at the Pancoast tract. The county wants to use the and counties have their master plans and land use ordinances Pancoast site to discard incinerated solid waste from a certified as being in compliance with the Pinelands Compre­ resource recovery plant. hensive Management Plan in order to receive infrastructure Last April the Pine lands Commission staff recommended grants or loans. the denial of a similar request by Camden County officials to place a regional landfill in Winslow Township, along the Great Egg Harbor River. In 1983 the Commission approved Report: Strengthen PDC Program a new landfill in Upper Township and Woodbine Borough after Cape May County officials demonstrated that no feasible A special task force appointed by Governor Kean to study alternative sites or technologies existed, that no environ­ the effect of Pinelands development regulations on area mental degradation would occur, and that after 1990 the farmers has recommended the strengtheningofthe Pinelands landfill would accept only residual waste from a resource Development Credit program. recovery plant · This and several other recommendations are contained in Commission executive director Terrence Moore will hold a report issued recently by the Pinelands Agricultural Study a public hearing on Atlantic County"s landfill application Commission which was created by the Governor in June before submitting his recommendation on the project to the 1984. Other recommendations in the report include sug­ full Commission. gestions for improving the method used to evaluate the etfect of Pinelands Plan regulations on land values, a recom­ mendation that the Pinelands Commission take stronger PINES PLAN CHANGES (continued.from page 1) action to bring all 52 Pinelands Area muncipalities into conformance with the Pine lands Plan, a proposed revision of must be reviewed and approved by the GoYernor and the the Plan's PDC allocation formula, and a recommendation U.S. Secretary of Interior. that the Pinelands Commission consider allowing cluster Copies of the proposed regulatory changes can be obtained housing in Pinelands Agricultural Production Areas. by writing to John Stokes, Assistant Director, Pinelands Commission, P.O. Box 7, New Lisbon, New Jersey08064. 2 This means that 42 of the 52 Pine lands Area municipalities have had their plan and ordinance revisions approved by the Pine lands Commission. In addition, Ocean County, Atlantic County, and Lacey Township officials recently expressed an interest in discussing conformance issues with the Com­ mission. The Commission's certification of Tabernacle's master plan and ordinance in September leaves only one Burlington County municipality, Shamong Township, not yet cenified by the Commission.

New Development Procedures Take Effect The Pinelands Commission has made several modifica­ tions to its process for reviewing development applications. These revisions to Article 4 of the Pine lands Comprehensive Management Plan particularly affect development applica­ VISITUR:S to the September Wings and Water Festival in tions in those 10 towns which have not yet had their lllaster Stone Harbor watch the Pinelands Commission's audio­ plans and land use ordinances certified as being in con­ visual program on the Pine Barrens which is available at formance with the Plan. libraries and schools throughout the state. For information Applicants in uncertified municipalities will no longer on where to borrow a copy of the slide show, contact the receive a direct development approval from the Pinelands Commission's Public Programs office, (609) 894-9342. Commission but will instead need to obtain a Commission Certificate of Compliance before applying for township building or subdivision approval. Another key revision is that people applying for waivers of strict compliance, certain Batory Resigns; letters of interpretation, major development approvals (five or more homes and most commercial development) in Snyder, Sawhill, and Auerbach uncertified towns, and public development approvals must Appointed to Commission now notify all landowners within 200 feet of the property to be developed. Joan Batory, Camden County"s representative on the Copies of the revisions to Article 4 can be obtained by Pinelands Commission since its inception in 1979, has writing to the Pinelands Commission office, P.O. Box 7 resigned from the Commission. Batory, former director ofthe New Lisbon, New Jersey 08064. ' Camden County Environmental Agency, is currently em­ ployed by the National Park Service in Philadelphia. Batory was chairman of the Commission· s Work Plan Subcommittee and served on the Public Ir,volvement, Conformance. Plan New Computer Program Review, and Acquisition Subcommittees. Ann Auerbach, vice-president of the New Jersey League of Women Voters Helps Applicants and the League's former natural resources director, has been A computer program recently developed by the Pine lands named as her replacement. Commission can now be used to help determine whether the Vicki Snyder, an environmental specialist for the Gloucester septic system of a proposed development project can meet County Planning Department, has been appointed as that Pinelands Plan water quality standards. county's representative on the Pinelands Commission. Sny­ The program. adapted for use with IBM microcomputers. der replaced former county representative Charles New­ can help engineers and builders determine the minimum comb who resigned from the Commission in order to work for acreage needed for new development, the average ground the Governor's Office of Policy and Planning. Environ­ water concentration of nitrate-nitrogen pollutants, and the mental consultant Gary Sawhill has replaced Joel Jacovitz maximum allowable floor area for commercial structures. as Atlantic County's representative on the Pinelands Com­ The program also prints a standardized report for these mission. Jacovitz resigned from the Commission to pursue a calculations. seat in the State Assembly. Sawhill, a resident of Galloway The Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan prohibits Township, owns his own environmental consulting firm. any new development that would raise the nitrate-nitrogen concentration in the ground water to more than two parts per million. The federal drinking water standard allows ten parts Three Towns per million, making the Pine lands Plan water quality standard Get Master Plan Approval one of the toughest in the nation. This standard is necessary to protect the area's aquifer, one of the largest east of the ~hree more Pinelands Area municipalities have brought Mississippi River. ~~elr local ~aster p!ans and zoning ordinances into con- Program disks and users manuals are :wailable from the rmance w1th the Pmelands Comprehensive Management Pine lands Commission office for $75 wh1ch covers the cost ~Ian-- Berkeley Township in Ocean County, Buena Borough of programming. reproduction, and technical support. For m Atlantic County, and Tabernacle Township in Burlington eounty. further information. contact Bob Nicholson at the Pinelands Commission office, (609) 894-9342. 3 Upcoming Dates Pinelands Commission March 7 - 9 a.m. - Pinelands Commission meeting, State Appointees Southampton Township Municipal Building, Route 206 and Candace McKee Ashmun ...... Far Hills Retreat Road, Vincentown B. Budd Chavooshian ...... Trenton April4- 9 a.m.- Pinelands Commission meeting, South­ Thomas B. Darlington ...... New Lisbon ampton Township Municipal Building James Hyres ...... Jackson Stephen V. Lee, III ...... Tabernacle April 19 - Pinelands photography workshop, Pleasant Franklin E. Parker, Chairman ...... Mendham Mills Foundation, (609) 567-1418 John E. Vaughan ...... Ocean City May 2- 9 a.m. - Pinelands Commission meeting, South­ County Appointees ampton Township Municipal Building Gary Sawhill ...... Atlantic (For information on subcommittee meeting dates, contact Michael J. Hogan ...... Burlington Bob Bembridge at the Pinelands Commission office.) Ann Auerbach ...... Camden William J. Brown ...... Cape May Brian McFadden, Vice-Chairman ...... Cumberland Pinelands Development Update Vicki Snyder ...... Gloucester Since the Comprehensive Management Plan took effect in Alan A very ...... Ocean January 1981, 13,425 new homes have been approved for Federal Appointee construction in the Pinelands. The Commission has denied the construction of 7,268 homes since that time. James W. Coleman, Jr...... Cherry Hill Nearly all of these approvals( 13,291) were for new homes Executive Director ...... Terrence D. Moore in the outer Protection Area of the Pines. Only 134 new Assistant Director ...... William Harrison homes have been approved in the environmentally sensitive Assistant Director ...... John Stokes Preservation Area. The Commission has also approved 687 commercial and industrial projects including the recent approval of a $100 million shopping mall in the Regional Growth Area of Hamilton Township. A total of 283 public development projects proposed for the Pinelands Area have been approved.

New Jersey Pinelands Commission P.O. Box 7 BULK RATE New Lisbon, New Jersey 08064 US POSTAGE (609) 894-9342 PAID NEW LISBON, N.J. PERMIT NO.- 1

Bob Bembridge ...... Editor Norma Campbell ...... Public Programs Assistant

4 XL .ulutK~ The ;Einelandji!r Newsletter of the New Jersev Pinelands Commission

VOL. -?{f, No. 2 JULY-SEPTEMBER 1986

LetKe will replace environmental consultant Gary Sawhill. LetKe is deputy head of the county's Department of Regional Planning and Development. He has worked for the county since 1978 and was appointed acting director of the Atlantic County Transportation Authority, a post he held for seven months before returning to his planning post on June 2. LetKe, a resident of Somers Point, graduated from Stockton State College where he majored in environmental science.

Faster Toxic Cleanups Urged for U.S. Bases

Officials at military bases and other federal installations in the Pinelands should recognize the region's ecological im­ portance and accelerate cleanups of toxic waste sites on the bases, according to a report issued by the Pinelands Com­ mission. The report contains various findings and 11 recommend­ ations for improving the monitoring and cleaning up of toxic ENFORCEMENT TEAM members Rick Brown, Bob waste sites at the four federal installations in the Pinelands -­ Howell, and Alice D'Arcy are responsibleforensuring that Fort Dix, McGuire Air Force Base, Lakehurst Naval Air Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan standards Engineering Center, and the Federal Aviation Administration are adhered to. Technical Center in Galloway. The report's findings and recommendations resulted from a Commission public hearing Staff Reorganization last October where testimony was offered by representatives of the federal installations, the Environmental Protection Will Bolster Enforcement Agency, the New Jersey Department of Environmental The Pinelands Commission staff has been reorganized to Protection, elected officials, environmental groups, and improve its ability to enforce Pine lands Plan regulations and several citizens. more efficiently review development applications. The report urges officials of the military bases to serve as The staff reorganization will establish clearer lines of "role models" for other government agencies with responsi­ responsibility and authority, place greater emphasis on bility for toxic waste cleanups. The report also recommends enforcement activities, and centralize secretarial and clerical that federal installations in the Pinelands receive special services, according to Commission executive director Terrence priority when Defense Department funds are allocated for Moore. In order to accomplish this, five staff members have toxic cleanup measures. been selected as managers with responsibility for various The Commission's hearing was initiated because of its Commission functions. The new managers for the various concerns over reports about spills and environmental con­ departments are: Lisa Rosenberger, planning and research; tamination at the federal facilities within the Pinelands, Michael Fletcher, administration; Bob Bembridge, public particularly fuel spills at Lakehurst air base, plutonium programs; Michael Bolan, development review; and Alice contamination at McGuire, and volatile chemicals emanating D' Arcy, intergovernmental coordination and enforcement. from the Ft. Dix landfill. The staff reorganization was spurred, in part, by the fact The report states that in some cases the sampling of that 42 of the 52 Pinelands Area municipalities have had suspected toxic sites is inadequate since "confirmation their master plans and zoning ordinances revised to incorpo­ studies often consist of only one sample per monitoring well rate Pinelands Plan standards, allowing the Commission to per suspected site." The report says that this sampling is devote staff time to other areas, according to Moore. often inadequate because contaminants can move quickly through the sandy, porous soil and high water table in the Lefke Named to Pinelands. The report recommends that the federal install­ ations cooperate in the monitoring and cleanup oftoxic sites Pinelands Commission whenever possible since "joint investigative approaches may Atlantic County planner Brian LetKe has been selected as produce a more comprehensive, efficient and economical ·that county's representative on the Pinelands Commission. study." Atlantic County Pinelands Curriculum Landfill Plan Rejected Available to Teachers '! The Pinelands Commission has denied Atlantic County's Curriculum materials on the Pinelands are now available' request for regulatory waivers that the county needed to to elementary school teachers through New Jersey Networ place a landfill in Hamilton and Buena Vista Townships. and the Pinelands Commission. The Commission voted at its April 4 meeting to deny the A curriculum guide containing lessons on Pineland county freeholder board's application for waivers of strict history and culture, soils, water resources, and fire ecolog compliance from two Pinelands Comprehensive Manage­ for grades four through six and a video-cassette program ment Plan landfill regulations. The county needed the about the Pinelands is available at cost from New Jersey waivers to construct a new regional landfill at the 541 acre Network. Pancoast tract. The county planned to use the site to discard Orders for the complete video tape/ curriculum guide incinerated solid waste from a resource recovery plant. package should be sent to New Jersey Network, Educationat The Commission denied the waiver request on the basis Services, 1573 Parkside Avenue, Trenton, New Jerseyl that the county failed to meet four out of five Comprehensive 08638, (609) 530-5216. Free copies of the curriculumguidej Management Plan criteria for the granting of waivers based only may be ordered from the Pinelands Commission, P.O.· on compelling public need. Box 7, New Lisbon, New Jersey 08064, (609) 894-9342.1 The Commission, acting upon the recommendation of The teaching aids were developed by the Pinelands, executive director Terrence Moore, found that the proposed Commission with grants from the Geraldine R. Dodge landfill would substantially impair the natural resources of Foundation and the Victoria Foundation. the Pinelands and that the county's own waiver application demonstrated that the Pancoast site was less desirable from Pinelands Billboard Ban Upheld 1 ·an environmental perspective than an alternative site located outside the Pinelands boundaries in Egg Harbor Township. The New Jersey Pinelands Commission's ban on newi Moore's report had concluded that this latter site, Betsy billboards in the Pinelands has been upheld by the State Scull, could serve the needs of Atlantic County and that a Superior Court, Appellate Division. · landfill in the Pinelands was not required to meet the public On January 15 the three judge appellate panel upheld the need. Pinelands Commission's denial ofR. C. Maxwell Company• to place two new billboards in wetlands along the Atlantic~ City Expressway in Hammonton. The judges rejected arguJ Research Plan Adopted ments by the company's attorney that the billboard ban violated the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. Th for Pinelands appellate panel concluded that the Pine lands Comprehensiv .. A long term strategy to increase scientific knowledge Management Plan regulation prohibiting new billboards in .about the Pinelands was recently adopted by the Council on the Pinelands Area "does not run afoul of the First Amend­ Pinelands Research and Management. ment and is not violative of due process or equal protection." The plan will be used to guide government and private In November 1983 R. C. Maxwell's request to place th~ research on the Pinelands by identifying important research two billboards was denied on the basis of Pinelands Com pre-. priorities and preventing the duplication of research efforts. hensive Management Plan regulations which prohibit bot The research council is comprised of representatives from new billboards and most forms of development in wetlands. the Pinelands Commission, the Department of Environ­ This decision was upheld by a state administrative law judgef mental Protection, the Governor's Office of Policy and in October 1984 and subsequently affirmed by the 15f Planning, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Rutgers member Pinelands Commission. The Commission's decisio~ University's Division of Pinelands Research, and Stockton was appealed to the Appellate Division by attorneys for the,, State College. The council's goals are to develop a better company who challenged the constitutional basis of the,) understanding of the Pinelands ecosystem, develop land Commission's prohibition against new billboards. management strategies consistent with state and federal The appellate panel found that the Commission's billboard legislation for the protection of the region, evaluate the · regulation promoted "substantial government interests." implications of land uses and land management strategies, The judges' decision stated that "historically, our cases have and formulate ways to secure funds and staffing for carrying considered aesthetics to be relevant when they bear upo out these objectives. land utilization in a substantial way .... Decisions of the The council's March 1986 report focuses on the need for United States Supreme Court lend support to the thesis tha studies that will help protect Pinelands water resources, promotion of aesthetics constitutes a substantial govern­ native landscapes, and plant and animal communities. Areas mental objective." identified in the report for further study include an examina­ tion of the relationships between various types of land uses and water quality, a study of current technologies for Items Wanted For Events Calendar preventing water pollution, an examination of the effect of Does your organization have an upcoming event you, water withdrawal from Pinelands aquifers, and a study of would like to see listed in the Pinelander? how Pinelands landscapes change over time. Other areas If so, mail information on the date, time, place, and a brief targeted for study include an examination of the effects of description of the event to the Pinelander Events Calendar, development on water quality and wetlands and a study of the Pinelands Commission,· P.O. Box 7, New Lisbon, Ne~ specific habitat requirements of certain Pinelands animals Jersey, 08064. Timely items about events related to th~ species. Pinelands will be printed as space permits. i Copies of the research report can be obtained by writing to Because of the Pinelander's quarterly printing schedulel the Pinelands Commission, P.O. Box 7, New Lisbon, New up to three months lead time may be required for publicatio~ Jersey 08064. so please· mail us news items as soon as possible. · 2 Mr. Karasinski's prize winning entry included a suggestion that sportsmen be provided with stamped, addressed post­ cards with fishing and hunting permits so that vehicle license numbers of garbage dumpers can be written down and mailed to law enforcement agencies. Mr. Karasinski wrote that "your problem is more one of detection than enforcement," and he suggests that hunters and fishermen be enlisted to help protect the beauty of the woods they love. Anne Roos suggests tougher anti-dumping legislation combined with extensive educational efforts and community cleanup pro­ jects by area service clubs like the Boy Scouts. Dr. Van !stendal recommends a "town watch" type program con- . cemed with the environment as a good idea to help apprehend and prosecute illegal garbage dumpers. "There are many, many individuals who would like to help in these worthwhile projects. They only need to be made aware of the problem and be given an opportunity to help," wrote Dr. Van !stendal.

Public Hearing List Available Persons who wish to be notified of all Pinelands Commis­ sion public hearings can obtain written notice of these hearings for a modest subscription fee. PINELANDS ESSAY contest winners,from left, are Daniel Anyone who wishes to be notified about Commission Morrison (third prize), Rita Louh (first prize), and Joyce hearings should send a $10 check, payable to the Pine lands Commission, to Hearing Registry, Pine lands Commission, A~os (second prize). P.O. Box 7, New Lisbon, New Jersey 08064. The renewable subscription fee, which covers reproduction and mailing costs, entitles the subscriber to written notices about all Sixth Graders Win Pines Commission hearings for one year. - Essay Contest The Pinelands Commission and its staff conduct four types of public hearings - hearings regarding local develop­ Three_ s_outhem New J~y si~th gr!!_Q~rs each won a ment actions which may contravene Pinelands Comprehen­ saviny bond and plaque for their entries in the Pinelands sive Management Plan standards, hearings on revisions to Commission's second annual essay contest. master plans and land use ordinances of Pinelands munici­ First and third prize winners, respectively, were Rita Louh palities and counties, changes to Pinelands Comprehensive . and Daniel Morrison of J. F. Cooper School in Cherry Hill. Management Plan regulations, and special hearings on Joyce Amos of J. Mason Tomlin School in Mantua won issues of importance to the Pinelands. second prize for her essay on this year's theme- "What I think is most important about New Jersey's Pinelands." The Commission received over I 00 outstanding essays Pinelands Speakers from I 0 southern New Jersey school districts. The essays were evaluated by five judges for originality, technical Directory Available soundness, organization, and content. The judges included The Pinelands Commission is offering a free directory of Dot Bauer, education director for the Burlington County speakers who are available to give slide presentations and Times; Michele lsyers, project director for the New Jersey talks on the Pinelands to schools, civic clubs, and service Conservation Foundation; Shaun O'Rourke, chief naturalist organizations. for the Ocean County Department of Parks and Recreation; Thirty-three speakers are listed in the directory and Thomas Pogranicy, staff superintendent for the New Jersey address topics including rare plants and animals, Indian Divisi~n of Parks and Forestry; and Dr. Beryl Robichaud, settlements, cranberry farming, canoeing opportunities, trad­ associate professor at Rutgers University's Center for Coast­ itional folklore, and "lost" towns of the Pines. The speakers al and Environmental Studies and former vice-president of reside throughout New Jersey and in Philadelphia and McGraw Hill. include Pinelands botanists, archaeologists, naturalists, and The purpose of the essay contest is to foster an appreciation biologists. Some of the speakers also lead field trips to the and understanding of the Pinelands while providing students Pine lands. an opportunity to expand their writing skills. The directory can be obtained by writing to the Pinelands Commission, Public Programs Office, P.O. Box 7, New Lisbon, New Jersey 08064. Ideas Offered to Stop Pines Litter The Commission is currently seeking new members for its Three area residents have won $50 apiece for their speakers organization and is planning a speakers reception s~ggestions on how to curtail illegal garbage dumping in the for September 15,7:30 p.m., at the Mt. Misery Conference Pmelands. Center off Route 70 in Pemberton Township. Anyone who is The winners in a contest sponsored by Commission knowledgeable about some aspect of the Pinelands and who executive director Terrence Moore included Chester Karas­ is interested in becoming a member of the speakers organiza­ inski of Mount Holly, Anne Roos ofWhiting, and Dr. Fred tion should contact Betsy Carpenter at the Pinelands Com­ Van !stendal of Collingswood. mission office, (609) 894-9342.

3 Upcoming Dates Pinelands Commission September 5 - Pinelands Commission meeting, 9:00a.m., call Commission office for meeting loca­ State Appointees tion. Candace McKee Ashmun ...... Far Hill~ September 15 - Pinelands speakers organization reception, B. Budd Chavooshian ...... Trento Mt. Misery Conference Center, Route 70, Thomas B. Darlington ...... New Lisbo Pemberton Township, 7:30p.m. For more James Hyres ...... Jackso information call Betsy Carpenter at (609) Stephen V. Lee, III ...... Tabernacle! 894-9342 Franklin E. Parker, Chairman ...... Mendham' September 28 - Antique glass and bottle show sponsored John E. Vaugh~~~·~t~ A~~~~~t~~~· .. Ocean Cityt by Batsto Citizens Committee, Batsto Village, Wharton State Forest, 10:00 a.m. -4:00p.m. (raindate October 5) Brian Lefke ...... Atlantic\ October 10 - Pinelands Commission meeting, 9:00a.m., Michael J. Hogan ...... Burlington1 call Commission office for meeting loca­ Ann Auerbach ...... Camdent tion W~lliam J. Brown .. : ...... : ...... Cape May! Bnan McFadden, Vtce-Chatrman ...... Cumberland November 7 - Pinelands Commission meeting, 9:00a.m., Vicki Snyder ...... Gloucester' call Commission office for meeting loca­ tion Alan A very ...... Ocean (For information on subcommittee meeting dates, contact Federal Appointee Bob Bembridge at the Pine lands Commission office.) James W. Coleman, Jr...... Cherry Hill Executive Director ...... Terrence D. Moore, Assistant Director ...... William Harrison Assistant Director ...... John Stokes

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New Jersey Pinelands Commission P.O. Box 7 BULK RATE New Lisbon, New Jersey 08064 US POSTAGE (609) 894-9342 PAID NEW LISBON, N.J. PERMIT NO.- 1

Bob Bembridge ...... : ...... " Editor Norma Campbell ...... Public Programs Assistant

4 .UTGERS z~0 The JUN 1 'f ri987 J?inelltriotler Newsletter of the New Jersev Pinelands Commission

VOL VII, NO. 1 JAN UARY·MARCH 1987 Pines Plan Changes Near Final OK The first thorough review and overhaul of Pineland!). Comprehensive Management Plan regulations is nearing completion, and the Pinelands Commission is expected to vote on the proposed changes this spring. The Commission sponsored two public hearings in January on the proposed regulatory changes. The hearings at Burling­ ton County College and Stockton State College on January 20 and 27 were the latest round of public meetings on the regulatory revision process which began more than three years ago. Testimony on the proposed changes was offered at the.January hearings by the Natural Resources DefeJ!Se Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, the _Pinelands Landowners Society, the Pine Barrens Coalition, the Citizens Conservation Council of Ocean County, the League of Women Voters, the New Jersey Audubon Society, and several other organizations and individuals. Some of the key changes being proposed are the prohibition of underground natural gas storage, provisions for residential clustering in Forest and Rural Development Areas, stricter FOLKL/FE of the Pinelands is the subject of a State forestry standards, and the setting of a 10 year expiration ' Museum exhibit open through April 5. Museum curator date-on Commission development approvals granted prior to · Frances Mollett and Charles Ralph of the museum's January 14, 1981, the day the Comprehensive Management exhibits department discuss how longtime residents manu­ Plan took effect. If the Commission approves the regulatory factured cedar shingles. changes, the changes would then require the approval of the Governor and the Secretary of the Interior. Pinelands Exhibit at State Museum The State Museum in Trenton is presenting a major exhibit' Pinelands Videocassette, on the culture and history of the New Jersey Pinelands. The Curriculum Available exhibit opened on January 24 and runs until April 5. "New Jersey Pinelands: Tradition and Environment" will A color videocassette about the Pinelands with a compan­ focus on five Pinelands environments and how area residents ion curriculum guide for elementary school teachers is interact with their natural surroundings. The exhibit uses available through New Jersey Network. photographs, artifacts, local technology, folk art, and video­ The ~ inch VHS videocassette version of the Pinelands tapes to convey the spirit of traditional Pinelands lifestyles. Commission's 17 minute slide/tape program, "The New The State Museum is located at 205 West State Street in Jersey Pinelands, Our Country's First National Reserve," Trenton. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday may be purchased for $35. The* inch U-Matic version may from 9:00a.m. to 5:00p.m. and on Sundays from 1:00 p.m. be purchased for $45. Teachers may also request to receive a to 5:00p.m. free copy ofthe accompanying curriculum units on Pinelands history and culture, soils, water resources, and fire ecology for grades four through six. Pinelands Development Update Orders for the videocassette or the complete videocassette/ Since the Comprehensive Management Plan took effect in curriculum guide package should be sent to Project T.AP.E., January 1981, 17,3 77 new homes have been approved for Educational Services Division, New Jersey Network, 1573 ~nstruction in the Pinelands. Applications have been denied Parkside Avenue, CN 777 Trenton, New Jersey 08625. or the construction of 7,097 new homes. Free copies of the curriculum guide only may be ordered . Nearly all ofthese approvals ( 17 ,206) were for new homes from the Pinelands Commission, Public Progtlams Office, ~ the outer Protection Area ofthe Pines. The Commission P.O. Box 7, New Lisbon, New Jersey 08064. as also approved 7 51 commercial and industrial projects. A Development of these educational materials was funded ~tal of 330 public development projects proposed for the by grants from the Geraldine R Dodge Foundation and the melands Area have been approved. Victoria Foundation. New Speakers Directory Available Industrial Park Study Completed The 1987 Pinelands speakers directory is now available Five Pinelands municipalities may get a boost in their with a listing of 50 experts on various Pinelands topics who ratable base because of a study of industrial park sites give talks and slide shows to schools, civic clubs, and service recently completed by the Pinelands Commission. organizations.· The study of the five industrial parks in Hamilton Township The 1987 directory can be obtained free by writing to the and Egg Harbor City (Atlantic County), Stafford Township Pinelands Commission, Public Programs Office, P.O. Box 7, (Ocean County), Woodbine Borough (Cape May County), New Lisbon, New Jersey 08064. and Chesilhurst Borough (Camden County) was conducted The Pineland& Speakers Organization was created in 198.5 to identify factors that might affect the ability of lots in the and included 33 speakers covering topics such as rare plant~ industrial parks to be developed. This information will help and animals, Indians of the Pinelands, cranberry farming,_! developers prepare environmentally sound plans and reduce folklore, canoeing, and "lost" towns of the Pines. The 1987 the cost and review time normally required for a development directory lists 50 speakers residing throughout all parts of application. This is expected to make the sites more attractive New Jersey plus Philadelphia and New York City. The to developers. The Commission staff analyzed the industrial speakers include naturalists, botanists, archaeologists, and parks to gather information on wetlands, geology, hydrology, various other experts, including some who lead field trips in soils, vegetation, wildlife, and cultural resources. The study · the Pinelands. was funded with a $20,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration. Educational Program Wins "Pride" Award Pinelands Ads on The Pinelands Commission's educational program has New York, Philly TV won a state level award in the Take Pride in America contest New York and Philadelphia television stations have been sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior. The helping more people learn why the New Jersey Pinelands are Commission's educational program was also selected as one important and what can be done to help protect them. of 127 conservation programs throughout the United States Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate WCAU-TV in eligible for the national award. Philadelphia generously produced 10 and 30 second public The Take Pride in America program honors private and service announcements which have also run on Philadelphia governmental efforts which encourage the wise use of land television channels 6 (WPVI), 17 (WPHL), 29 (WTAF), and pride in the nation's natural resources. During the past and New York television stations 2 (WCBS), 5 (WNYW), 7 three years the Commission's educational efforts have (W ABC), and 9 (WOR). The Pinelands Commission appre­ included the production and distribution of an audio-visual ciates the air time which these stations donated to its program about the Pinelands, the organization of a speakers educational efforts. bureau, the development of curriculum materials for teachers, A free color brochure on the Pi~elands and a list of ways the creation of a traveling display, and the development of a you can help protect it can be obtained by writing to the computerized bibliography of Pinelands educational mate­ Pinelands Commission, Public Programs Office, P. 0. Box 7, rials. The Commission's educational program is guided by New Lisbon, New Jersey 08064. the Pine lands Educational Advisory Council, a group of nine New Jersey educators. The Commission's educational pro­ gram has been funded for the past three years by the Senate Considers Ratable Aid Geraldine R Dodge Foundation and the Victoria Foundation. The State Senate is considering legislation that would reimburse Pine lands municipalities for the full amount of tax ratables lost as a result of state land acquisition. Architects Honor Senate bill S-17 23 sponsored by Senator William Gormley Pinelands Commission would provide in lieu of tax payments for state property at the The New Jersey Society of Architects has honored the full value oflost ratables. The current Green Acres compen­ Pinelands Commission for "outstanding accomplishment in sation program provides municipalities declining payments the public interest" through its protection of the million acre over a 13 year period. The Commission recommended a full Pine lands. in lieu tax payment program for Pinelands municipalities The award was presented to Pinelands Commission when it adopted the Comprehensive Management Plan in chairman Franklin Parker and executive director Terrence 1981. The bill must be reviewed by the Senate Revenue, Moore at the Society of Architect's December 12 meeting at Finance, and Appropriations Committee before it can be the Newark Airport Marriot. voted on by the full Senate. Arthur Davis, awards chairman for the Society of Arch­ itects, said that "a clarion call has been urgently sounded for Pinelands Film Planned the wise protection of and planning for a fragile and The Pinelands Commission has received a grant from the irreplaceable one million acres of our natural environment: Geraldine R Dodge Foundation that will be used to produce the Pine Barrens. That call has been consistently, courage­ a documentary film about the Pinelands. c ously, and imaginatively answered by the New Jersey The film will be produced by New Jersey Network which Pinelands Commission." will provide approximately half of the production costs to ' Davis said the Pine lands Commission was being honored supplement the Dodge grant. The film will be produced by , because of its programs for the protection of wetlands, New Jersey Network producer Louis Presti who won an} vegetation, fish and wildlife, ground water, air quality, Emmy for his documentary, "In the Batne.&at Bay Tragi;l scenery, and historic sites. tion." The film is scheduled to be completed by late 1987 .!1 2 1 Sewer Funding Plan Approved The Pinelands Commission has approved a plan for the expenditure of nearly $30 million for the construction of sewerage facilities in Pinelands Regional Growth Areas. The Pine lands Infrastructure Master Plan adopted by the Commission on January 16 identified nine wastewater treatment projects that are eligible for the receipt of grants and low interest loans. These funds were authorized by the Pinelands Infrastructure Trust Bond Act which was approved by state voters inNovember 1985. The funds would cover 60 percent of a project's cost - 40 percent as a grant and 20 percent in low interest loans. The funding will help ensure that future development occurs in those areas slated for growth by the Pinelands Plan. Projects which have been identified as eligible for the receipt of the funds include the Monroe Interceptor in Monroe Township, The Atlantic County Utilities Authority Coastal Interceptor in Hamilton Township and Egg Harbor Township, the improvement and expansion of the Waterford Sewage Treatment Plant in Waterford Township, the Ocean County Utilities Authority Ridgeway-Cabin Branch Inter­ ceptor in Manchester Township and Jackson Township, the Chesilhurst Borough Collection System, an interceptor from ENFORCEMENT officer Richard Brown, foreground, Chesilhurst to the Waterford Sewage Treatment Plant, the , explains how the Pinelands Commission staffconducts soil Harding Highway Local Interceptor in Hamilton Township borings for development applications during a recent work­ and two local interceptors in Galloway Township, and the shop on Pinelands Plan regulations. The October through Stafford-Ocean Acres Skeleton System in Stafford Township. January workshops attracted 93 zoning, construction, and The grant and loan program will be administered by the planning officials from 43 municipalities. From left are Department of Environmental Protection according to the Ocean County construction officials Robert Mears, Herbert funding plan established by the Pinelands Commission. Heinrichs, Charles Lasky, and Joseph Boehler. Public Hearing List Available Persons who wish to be notified of all Pinelands Commis­ OK Given to Galloway, sion public hearings can obtain written notice of these Egg Harbor City Plans hearings for a modest subscription fee. The Pinelands Commission has given conditional or fmal Anyone who wishes to be notified about Commission approval to the revised master plans and land use ordinances hearings should send a $10 check, payable to the Pinelands of two Atlantic County municipalities-- Galloway Township Commission, to Hearing Registry, Pinelands Commission, and Egg Harbor City. P. 0. Box 7, New Us bon, New Jersey 08064. The renewable. ~he Commission conditionally certified Galloway's subscription fee, which covers reproduction and mailing revtsed plan and ordinances on November 7 and gave full costs, entitles the subscriber to written notices about all approval to Egg Harbor City's plan and ordinance on Commission hearings for one year. February 6. Final approval of the plans and ordinances of The Pinelands Commission and its staff conduct four ~ese two municipalities will mean that 43 of the 52 types of public hearings - hearings regarding local develop­ Pm~lands Area municipalities have brought their plans and ment actions which may contravene Pinelands Comprehen­ ordmances into conformance with the Pinelands Compre­ sive Management Plan standards, hearings on revisions to hensive Management Plan. master plans and land use ordinances of Pinelands munici­ p· Egg Harbor City is located entirely within the state palities and counties, changes to Pinelands Comprehensive ~elands Area. Of the city's total land area of 10.89 square Management Plan regulations, and special hearings on miles, 4.35 square miles are located in the Preservation issues of importance to the Pinelands .. Area, 2,590 acres are designated a Forest Area, and 2,040 acres are located in a Pinelands Town. In Galloway 40 Ashmun Appointed s~uare mi!es of the township's total land area of91. 7 5 sq~are miles are m the Pinelands Area. The Pine lands portion of the to Outdoor Council tow hi · R ns P ts designated as a Pinelands Town (2,170 acres), Pinelands Commissioner Candace Ashmun has been d ur~l Development Area (9,505 acres), Agricultural Pro­ appointed by Governor Thomas Kean to serve on the newly ~ct_ton Area (4,440 acres), Forest Area (2,795 acres), formed Governor's Council on New Jersey Outdoors. Ar gtonal Growth Area (2,715 acres), Federal Installation This council is responsible for making recommendations eo: (740 a~res ), and Preseryation Are~ (2 ,400 acres). The to the Governor on how the state can meet its open space and G pre~enstve Management Plarl also destgnates the Cologne- recreational needs into the year 2000. Ashmun has been on .e11rmanta and Pomona sections of Galloway as Pinelands the Pinelands Commission since its formation in 1979 and vt ages. also serves on the State Planning Commission.

·3 Pinelands Calendar Pinelands Commission March 6 - Pinelands Commission meeting, 9:00am., State Appointees Cranberry Hall, Charles Street, Medford March 14 Pinelands folklife conference sponsored Candace McKee Ashmun ...... Far Hills by the Pinelands Commission, the B. Budd Chavooshian ...... Trenton American Folklife Center, the State Thomas B. Darlington ...... New Lisbon Museum, the New Jersey State Council James Hyres ...... Jackson on the Arts, and the New Jersey Historical Stephen V. Lee, III ...... Tabernacle Commission; New Jersey State Museum, Franklin E. Parker, Chairman ...... Mendham 205 West State Street, Trenton, 9:00a.m. John E. Vaughan ...... Ocean City -5:30p.m.; registration is $2 (plus $4 for County Appointees a box lunch). Checks payable to "Pine­ lands Conference" should be mailed to Brian Letke ...... Atlantic Pinelands Conference, New Jersey His­ Michael J. Hogan ...... Burlington torical Commission, 113 West State Ann Auerbach ...... Camden Street, CN-305, Trenton, New Jersey William J. Brown ...... Cape May 08625 Brian McFadden, Vice-Chairman ...... Cumberland April 10 - Pinelands Commission meeting, 9:00 Vicki Snyder ...... Gloucester a.m., Cranberry Hall, Charles Street, Alan Avery ...... Ocean Medford May 8 - Pinelands Commission meeting, 9:00 Federal Appointee a.m., Cranberry Hall, Charles Street, Medford James W. Coleman, Jr...... Cherry Hill May 23 - 25 - Three day horseback trip through the Executive Director ...... Terrence D. Moore Pinelands; call Discover Adventure Club Assistant Director ...... : ...... William Harrison at (609) 235-7195 Assistant Director ...... John Stokes

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4 AL.t;\. L~. 1\UTGERS NOV 161987 ~~ov 1 0 1987

Newsletter of the New Jersey Pinelands Commission

Vol. VII, No. 2 September 1987 Compensation Ruling Unlikely to Affect Pines The U.S. Supreme Court's June 9 ruling that government agencies must compensate landowners where there has been a "taking" of land is not likely to affect the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan. The Supreme Court's decision was widely reported as a setback to municipalities and other governmental agencies that wish to regulate the use of land. However, Commission executive director Terrence Moore noted that the court's ruling in "First English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Glendale v. County of Los Angeles" merely held that landowners are entitled to compensation even when land use regulations only temporarily preclude all uses of their property. The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states that private property cannot be taken for public use without compensation. Moore said the Supreme Court decision did not redefine ESSAY WINNER Timothy Vaughn receives his award the traditional definition of "taking" and that the Pinelands Commission, in adopting the Pinelands Plan in late 1980, from Pine lands Commission chairman Franklin Parker as was careful to allow reasonable uses of land even in the his teacher, Margaret Corson, looks on. strictly regulated Preservation Area District. Moore pointed out that the Pinelands Plan and other stringent land use Pinelands Essays Win Prize regulations, such as New Jersey's Coastal Management Program, have already survived court challenges. He also Six southern New Jersey sixth graders won a $100 savings noted that the Pinelands Plan allows the granting of waivers bond for their winning entries in the Pine lands Commission's from Plan standards when there is an extraordinary hardship 1987 essay contest. or a compelling public need. The Commission has granted Commission chairman Franklin Parker presented each waivers from Pinelands Plan standards for 597 individual lot winner with a bond and a plaque for their essays about tra­ _owners, Moore said ditional Pinelands occupations. The winners were Timothy Vaughn· of D'IppOlito Intermediate · School in Vineland:· April Van Daley of Arthur Rann Middle School in Galloway, Pines Plan Changes Adopted Jill Levinsky ofNeeta Elementary School in Medford Lakes, The Pinelands Commission, after a review process which D~borah O'Brien and Tracy Moore of Eastampton MidcD.e began in the fall of 1983, has adopted the first mlljor set of School in Eastampton, and Darren Morze of Cinnaminson amendments to the Pine lands Comprehensive Management Middle School, Cinnaminson. Each teacher of the prize Plan. winners was awarded a $100 check to be used for environ­ The amendments must still be approved by the Governor mental education, and each of the participating schools before they can take effect. The amendments will also be received a copy of the book, Pinelands Folklife, or a submitted to the Secretary of the Interior for review. The videocassette of the Commission's slide program on the Commission voted to adopt the amendments at its September Pine lands. 11 meeting and are scheduled for publication in the November The essay contest judges were Dot Bauer, education 2 edition of the New Jersey Register. The changes include a director for the Burlington County Times, Michele Byers, 1991 expiration date on Commission development approvals project director for the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, granted prior to the January 14, 1981 enaction of the Ted Gordon, a teacher at Northern Burlington Regional Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan, comprehensive High School and a botanist, Tom Pogranicy, staff superin­ standards to protect historic resources, stricter st.andards to tendent for the State Park Service, and Dr. Beryl Robichaud, regulate commercial forestry, and the simplification of associate professor at the Center for Coastal and Environ­ application requirements. One of the more substantive mental Studies of Rutgers University and a retired senior amendments proposed, a provision for clustering homes on vice-president of McGraw Hill. .one acre lots in Forest Areas, wa!\ deleted from the amend­ Sixth grade teachers interested in participating in next ments by the Commission because of concerns from some year's essay contest may contact Betsy Carpenter at the environmental groups that such a change required further Pinelands Commission office. ·study. PLAN CHANGES (continued from page 1)

Copies of the amendments may be obtained by writing to the Pinelands Commission, P.O. Box 7, New Lisbon, New Jersey 08064. The entire set of Pinelands regulations, including the amendments, will be republished and should be available for distribution later this year.

Bradley Seeks Pines Visitors Center U.S Senators Bill Bradley and Frank Lautenberg are sponsoring legislation that would provide $26.2 million to construct a Pinelands visitors center and purchase 30,000 additional acres of open space in the Pines. The bill (S-1165) was introduced by Senator Bradley on May 7 and is currently being reviewed by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Bradley's legislation would provide up to $21.2 million for the purchase of 30,000 acres which the Pinelands Commission recom­ WILD AND SCENIC river designation is being soughtfor mended for public acquisition in 1981 but for which funding the Great Egg Harbor, Maurice, Manumuskin, and Men­ is currently not available. Nearly all of the $26 million antico rivers. Touring the Maurice River last/an from 1(/t, originally authorized by the 1978 National Parks and were Congressman William Hughes, Donald Fauerbach of Recreation Act for Pinelands land acquisition and planning the Citizens United to Protect Maurice River and its has been spent This act and federal Land and Water Tributaries, and U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg. Conservation Funds and state Green Acres appropriations photo courtesy of Gordon Bishop, Star Ledger have allowed the state to purchase or plan the purchase of an additional 67,000 acres of environmentally sensitive Pine­ lands since the Pine lands Commission was created in 1979 - Park Service to Study Pines Rivers approximately 30,000 acres short of the Commission's The National Park Service will conduct studies to deter­ original acquisition goal. Bradley's bill would allow the state mine whether the Great Egg Harbor River and three to purchase an additional 30,000 acres near the Wading Cumberland County rivers should be designated "wild and River in Burlington County and the Manumuskin River in scenic" rivers. Cumberland County. The bill provides $5 million for the Inclusion of the Great Egg Harbor, Maurice, Manumuskin, construction of a visitor and environmental education center and Menantico Rivers in the U.S. Interior Department's in the Pinelands. The Pinelands Commission and the New National Wild and Scenic River System would help preserve Jersey Department of Environmental Protection would help the rivers in their natural state and keep them accessible for the National Park Service select a site and plan the center. public recreation. All four rivers are located partially in the · state Pinelands Area. National Park Service representatives announced the start of the Great Egg Harbor River study on Norcross Named to Commission July 27 at the Atlantic County nature center in Estell Manor. Moorestown resident Judith Norcross has been named by F ederallegislation authorizing this study requires that it be Governor Kean to succeed John Vaughan on the Pinelands completed by October 1989. Commission. The legislation authorizing the studies of the Great Egg Norcross has worked in various state and national political Harbor and the three Cumberland County rivers were campaigns and served as finance director for U.S. Congress: sponsored by Congressman William Hughes and Senators man James Saxton. Norcross was a member of the inter­ Frank Lautenberg and Bill Bradley. The Cumberland County national delegation sent to the Phillipines to monitor the freeholder board has appointed a task force to assist the 1986 presidential election there and has represented the National Park Service in the study of the three county rivers.· Republican National and State Committees at conferences A kickoff meeting for this river study will be hel(f on in Israel, Grenada, and the United Kingdom. She attended September 28 in Commercial Township. The National Park the University of Pennsylvania and has been active in fund Service is inviting interested organizations and residents and raising for the Girl Scouts and Cooper Hospital in Camden. landowners in municipalities near the rivers to become' involved with the studies. For more information write or call the National Park Service, 600 Arch Street, Rootn 9428, Pinelands Development Update Philadelphia, PA. 19106, (215) 597-1573. Since the Comprehensive Management Plan took effect in January 1981 , 18,201 new homes have been approved for Pinelands Post Cards construction in the Pinelands. Applications have been denied for the construction of 7,225 new homes. Pinelands post cards may now be purchased for 15¢ Nearly all ofthese approvals ( 18,025) were for new homes each from the receptionist at the Pinelands Commission in the outer Protection Area of the Pines. The Commission office. The cards feature scenes of the historic vilf(lge of has also approved 831 commercial and industrial projects. A Batsto as well as native plants and animals including the pine · total of 356 public development projects proposed for the barrens gentian, pyxie moss, orchids, the northern pine Pinelands Area have been approved. snake, and the Pine Barrens tree frog. Poll Shows Support for Growth Controls Nearly three-fourths of South Jersey residents favor maintaining strict land use laws to preserve farms, forests, and open spaces, according to a report recently released by the South Jersey Center for Public Affairs at Stockton State College. The report," South Jersey Images: A ReP<>rt on the Quality of Ufe Among SouthTersey ResiBass River State Forest. The new section of the trail was officially opened on May 16 by members of the Batona Hiking Club, other outdoor groups, and representatives from the State Division of Judge: Illegal Woodcutter Must Parks and Forestry. The 50 mile Batona Trail runs from Ongs Hat in Lebanon State Forest to Lake Absegami and is Pay $869K the longest marked trail in the Pinelands. The trail is The owner of a Vincentown property management fmn maintained by the volunteer efforts of the Batona Hiking was ordered to pay more than $869,000 in damages to two Club which opened a 30 mile section of the trail in 1961. owners of property where an estimated $289,932 worth of Since that time the club has extended the trail an additional wood was illegally harvested. 20 miles. The Batona Trail passes through a variety of On July 29 Ocean County Superior Courtjudge Edward typical Pinelands environments such as pitch pine forests, Tumt>ach ordered James H. Willits of Real Land_M~I(e­ cedar swamps, and marshes. ment Systems to pay $869,798 to the two Woodland A free brochure and map of the Batona Trail can be Township landowners for conducting unauthorized forestry obtained by writing to the Pinelands Commission, P.O. Box operations on their property in 1985. Judge Tumbach. in 7, New Lisbon, New Jersey 08064. awarding triple damages and costs to landowners Sunny Pine Contracting of Manchester and the George Siegler Company of Hopatcong, stated that Willits bad also engag~ in racketeering activities. Richard Brown of the Pinelands Pinelands Spe.akers Available Commission enforcement staff worked with the two property Do you belong to a group that would like to have a speaker owners to bring an end to the unauthorized woodcutting on the Pinelands at one of your meetings? activity. The 1987 Pinelands speakers directory lists 53 experts on various Pinelands topics who give talks and slide shows to schools, civic clubs, and service organizations. The 1987 directory can be obtained free by writing to the Pinelands Commission, Public Programs Office, P.O. Box 7, New Items Wanted for Events Calendar Lisbon, New Jersey 08064. · Is your organization planning an event you would like to The Pinelands Speakers Organization includes speakers see publicized in the Pinelander? covering topics such as rare plants and animals, Indians of Ifso, mail information on the date, time, place, and ~brief the Pinelands, cranberry farming, folklore, canoeing, and description of the event to the Pinelander Events Calendar, "lost" towns of the Pines, The 1987 directory lists 53 Pinelands Commission, P.O. Box 7, New Lisbon, New speakers residing throughout all parts of New Jersey plus Jersey 08064. Timely items about events related to the Philadelphia and New York City. The speakers include Pinelands will be printed as space permits. The Pinelander's naturalists, botanists, archaeologists, and various other quarterly printing schedule may require up to three months experts, including some who lead field trips in the Pine lands. lead time, so please mail us news items as soon as possible.

3 Pinelands Commission Pinelands Calendar State Appointees Sept 11 Pinelands Commission meeting, 9:00 a.m. Cranberry· Hall, Charles· Street,· Medford . Sept 13 historic art festival, :Batsto Vilfage, Wharton Candace McKee Ashmun ...... • Far Hills State Forest, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; for B. Budd Chavooshian •.....••..•.••.....•..•. Trenton information call (609) 561-0024 Thomas B. Darlington ...... •...... • New Lisbon Sept 18 Pinelands Commission retreat, Golden Inn, J8Illes Hyres ...... Jackson 78th & Dune Drive, Avalon Stephen V. Lee,III ...... •...... •••. Tabernacle Sept 27 antique glass and bottle show, Batsto Village, Judith Norcross ...... •.....• Moorestown Wharton State Forest, 9:00 a.m. -5:00p.m. Franklin E. Parker, Chairman ..•.•...••.•.. Mendham Sept 29 Pinelands Speakers Organization reception, Smithville Mansion Annex, Eastampton, County Appointees 7:30 - 9:30 ~ ' Oct2 Pineland CommtsSionmeeting, 9:00 a.m., Brian Lefke ...... •.....••... Atlantic Cranberry Hall, Charles Street, Medford Michael J. Hogan ...... Burlington Oct9 League of Women Voters forum on southern Ann Auerbach • . . . • . • • . . . • . • . . . . • • . . . • . . . . . • Camden New Jersey water supply issues, 9:00 am. - William J. Brown ....••....•.•...•.....•. Cape May 3:00p.m., Sheraton Poste, Route 70, Cherry Brian McFadden, Vice-Chairman ...... ••. Cumberland Hill; for information call (609) 394-3303 Vicki Snyder ...... •.....•.....•....• Gloucester Oct 18 country living fair, Batsto Village, Wharton Alan A very ..•...... •...... •.....••• Ocean State Forest, 10:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m. Oct24 Environmental Congress, Association ofNew Federal Appointee Jersey Environmental Commissions, Prince­ ton Day School, Great Road, Princeton; for James W. Coleman ...... Cherry Hill information call (201) 539-7547 Nov6 Pinelands Commission meeting, 9:00 a.m., Executive Director.•..••...... •.•• Terrence D. Moore Cranberry Hall, Charles Street, Medford Assistant Director ..••...... •.•.. William Harrison Assistant Director •...•..•..•...... •. John C. Stokes

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Bob Bembridge ...... Editor Norma Campbell ...... Public Programs Assistant Pinelands Calendar Pinelands Commission Feb. 20 Conference on enforcement of environmental regulations sponsored by the New Jersey State Appointees Environmental Federation, 9:00a.m.- 4:00 p.m., Rutgers Labor Education Building, Candace McKee Ashmun .....••...... •... Far Hills Ryders Lane, New Brunswick; for information B. Budd Chavooshian .....•.••.....•.....•.•• Trenton call (201) 846-4224 Thomas B. Darlington ..•...... •.•...•... New Lisbon March4 Pinelands Commission meeting, 9:00 a.m., Cranberry Hall, Charles Street, Medford James Hyres ...... •.•.•...... Jackson April 8 Pinelands Commi&sion meeting, 9:00 a.m., Stephen V. Lee,III ...... •..•.•.••••...•. Tabernacle Cranberry Hall, Charles Street, Medford Judith Norcross ...... •.••.....•...... Moorestown May6 Pinelands Commission meeting, 9:00 a.m., Franklin E. Parker, Chairman ...... Mendham Cranberry Hall, Charles Street, Medford County Appointees .;;• Brian Letke ...... •.... , .' . : ...... Atlantic Michael J. Hogan .••••...•.••....••.....•• Burlington Ann Auerbach ... ,...... Camden William J. Brown· ...... •.....•.... Cape May Pinelands Development Update Brian ¥,PFadden, Vice-Chairman ..•...... Cumberland Since the Comprehensive Management Plan took effect in Vicki Snyder ...... ••....•...... •... Gloucester January 1981, 19,218 new homes have been approved for Alan Avery ...... •...... ; ...... •.•• Ocean construction in the Pinelands. Applications have been denied for the construction of 7,956 new homes. Federal Appointee Nearly all of these approvals (19,024) were fornew homes James W. Coleman ...••.•...... •.•..•..• Cherry Hill in the outer Protection Area of the Pines. The Commission has also approved 882 commercial and industrial projects. A Executive Director ...•...... •...• Terrence D. Moore total of 381 public development projects for the Pinelands Assistant Director ...... William Harrison Area have been approved. Assistant Director ..•.•...•...... •.. John C. Stokes

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Oilb I,IV " ....: -:.A Vol. VIII, No. 2 WOT. ClRWLATI June 1988

Parker Leaves Commission After Decade of Service

Franklin E. Parker, chairman of the Pinelands Com­ and has been a trustee of that organization since then. He mission since its creation, has left the Commission after has been a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Coun­ nearly a decade of dedicated service to the cause of cil since 1975 and currently serves as its treasurer. Pinelands protection. "The fact that the Commission had a dedicated, Parker had requested Governor Kean to appoint a re­ interested chairman made a big difference in terms of how placement for him after his term expired on June 28, 1987. the Plan was formulated and how the Commission oper­ Kean has appointed Richard Sullivan, the Department of ated," according to David Moore, executive director of the Environmental Protection's first Commissioner, to replace New Jersey Conservation Foundation. "The leadership of Parker as Pinelands Commission chairman. both the Commission and its staff made the Pinelands Parker, a New York City attorney who lives in Protection Act work." Mendham Township, has voluntarily served as chairman Mr. Parker served on the Medham environmental com­ of the Pinelands Commission since its creation in 1979. mission from 1980 to 1983. Since 1983 he has been a trustee Parker has overseen a regional planning effort that has of the Hudson River Foundation for Environmental Re­ served as a model for similar efforts throughout the United search and since 1984 a trustee of Schiff Natural Lands States. Parker's involvement in conservation issues began Trust in Mendham. He has also served as trustee and in the 1960s when he helped establish the Great Swamp secretary for the Jackson Hole Preserve and secretary to Wildlife Refuge in an area that was slated for development the American Conservation Foundation. as a regional airport. In 1965 Parker was chosen as the Parker's replacement, Richard Sullivan, is president of first president of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation New Jersey First, an environmental consulting firm.

Pine Barrens Film Airs on New Jersey Network The first documentary film to take a comprehensive look at the New Jersey Pinelands will be broadcast on New Jersey Network this summer. "My Pine Barrens Land" is a joint production of New Jersey Network and the Pinelands Commission and was partially funded by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. The half hour film examines the unique environment of the Pinelands through the eyes of local residents such as cranberry farmer Bill Haines Jr., trapper Tom Brown, clammer Phil Anderson, and Port Republic mayor Gary Giberson. The research activities of herpetologist Robert Zappalorti and Pinelands Commission scientist Bob Zampella are also featured. The film is narrated by actor Gary Merrill. The documentary premiered on May 27 and will be broadcast periodically throughout the summer. New Jersey Network can been seen on most cable television systems or UHF channels 52 (Trenton), 23 (Camden), 58 (New Brunswick), and 50 (Montclair). The film will be made available on videocassette through New Jersey Network's Project Tape. Requests for the videocassette version of the film should be sent to Project Tape, New Jersey Network, 1573 Parkside Avenue, CN HERPETOLOGIST Robert Zappalorti explains why Pinelands 777 Trenton, New Jersey 08625. animals lil'e in a fragile em·ironment in "My Pine Barrens Land" Pinelands-DEP Pact Clarifies Authority The Pinelands Commission and the Department of En­ vironmental Protection reached a formal agreement clari­ fying the Commission's responsibility to comment on de­ velopment projects proposed for the coastal portion of the Pinelands National Reserve. The agreement, endorsed by the Commission on Febru­ ary 5, formalizes the current policy practiced by the two government agencies since the January I4, I 981 enaction of the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan. That policy allows the Pinelands Commission to review and comment on major development applications before the Department of Environmental Protection's Division o COMMISSION STAFFERS John LaMacchia (left!. Fred Coastal Resources that are within the l.I million acr McCamic. and Suzanne Low Pinelands National Reserve but outside the 933,000 acr state Pinelands Area. Five Join Commission Staff The joint review policy followed by the Pinelands Con mission and the Division of Coastal Resources encouragt Dover Township resident John LaMacchia is the Com­ implementation of the general guidelines and policies c mission's new manager of information processing systems. the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan in th LaMacchia's duties include converting the Commission's coastal portion of the Pinelands National Reserve. Twent: data processing network to an in-house system so infor­ one municipalities have land within the Pinelands Nationa mation on development applications and local zoning ordi­ Reserve that is administered by the Division of Coasta. nances can be quickly retrieved. LaMacchia has over ten Resources under the Coastal Area Facility Review Act years experience in data processing and is an expert in (CAFRA). database management. He was previously employed by a The agreement commits the Pinelands Commission and data processing consulting firm in Boston and an inter­ the Department of Environmental Protection to meet to national computer timesharing company. LaMacchia has resolve any inconsistencies in their land use policies within a bachelors degree in computer science from New York the National Reserve and work together to standardize tht Institute of Technology. maps and computer data both agencies rely upon for thei. Reviewing amendments to municipal and county land land use decisions. use ordinances is the responsibility of Commission planner Suzanne Low. Low works with municipalities to ensure that local zoning ordinances comply with Pinelands Com­ prehensive Management Plan standards. Low has a mas­ Group Urges Pinelands Water ters degree in community and regional planning and a bachelors degree in urban and economic geography. Low Studies has 10 years of planning experience and previously worked A committee of representatives from six government as a senior planner and consultant in British Columbia agencies has recommended a p!an to assess the ecological where she specialized in regional planning. impacts of water withdrawals from Pinelands aquifers. Former Atlantic County planner Frederick McCamic is The committee was formed by the Pinelands Com­ responsible for regional planning and policy research for mission and the National Park Service after the Com­ the Commission. McCamic is evaluating the Pinelands De­ mission adopted a policy last August stating that Pinelands velopment Credit program and county and municipal aquifers should not be used as water supply sources for water quality management plans. He is the staff liaison for areas outside the Pinelands until the ecological effects of solid waste planning and is currently compiling a list of this use are fully understood. The research plan was de­ water supply and transportation projects that may be suit­ veloped by representatives of the Pinelands Commission, able for infrastructure funding. McCamic is a licensed the National Park Service, the Department of En­ planner and has a masters degree in regional planning from vironmental Protection, the U.S. Geological Survey, the the University of Pennsylvania. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Rutgers University's Two new members of the Commissioner's Development Division of Pinelands Research. The plan was presented Review staff are Andrew Windisch and Robert Watson. to the Commission's Work Plan and Public Involvement Windisch reviews development applications from all I 3 Subcommittes on May I6. Pinelands municipalities in Ocean County plus Bass River The research plan recommends the completion of de­ Township in Burlington County. Windisch has a bachelors tailed hydrologic studies of drainage basins within the degree in environmental science and geology from Stock­ Pinelands, the development of ground water flow models ton State College and a masters degree in fire ecology from for these basins, a study of the ecological effects of water Rutgers University. He previously worked for an en­ supply development, and the compilation of all infor­ vironmental consulting firm in Philadelphia. mation regarding the geology and hydrology of the Bob Watson is responsible for reviewing applications in Pinelands. eight Pinelands municipalities. He previously worked as a Representatives of these agencies have formed another designer and technician for an environmental consulting committee to develop short term policies regarding the use firm in Vermont. Watson has a bachelors degree in botany of the Cohansey and Kirkwood aquifers as water supply and environmental science from Rutgers University. sources until the recommended studies are completed. 2 Pinelands-DEP Pact Clarifies Authority The Pinelands Commission and the Department of En­ vironmental Protection reached a formal agreement clari­ fying the Commission's responsibility to comment on de­ velopment projects proposed for the coastal portion of the Pinelands National Reserve. The agreement, endorsed by the Commission on Febru- ·* ary 5, formalizes the current policy practiced by the two government agencies since the January 14, 1981 enaction of the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan. That policy allows the Pinelands Commission to review and comment on major development applications before the Department of Environmental Protection's Division of COMMISSION STAFFERS John LaMacchia (/eftJ. Fred Coastal Resources that are within the 1.1 million acre McCamic. and Suzanne Lo~<.· Pinelands National Reserve but outside the 933,000 acre state Pinelands Area. Five Join Commission Staff The joint review policy followed by the Pinelands Com­ mission and the Division of Coastal Resources encourages Dover Township resident John LaMacchia is the Com­ implementation of the general guidelines and policies of mission's new manager of information processing systems. the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan in the LaMacchia's duties include converting the Commission's coastal portion of the Pinelands National Reserve. Twenty data processing network to an in-house system so infor­ one municipalities have land within the Pinelands National mation on development applications and local zoning ordi­ Reserve that is administered by the Division of Coastal nances can be quickly retrieved. LaMacchia has over ten Resources under the Coastal Area Facility Review Act years experience in data processing and is an expert in (CAFRA). database management. He was previously employed by a The agreement commits the Pinelands Commission and data processing consulting firm in Boston and an inter­ the Department of Environmental Protection to meet to national computer timesharing company. LaMacchia has resolve any inconsistencies in their land use policies within· a bachelors degree in computer science from New York the National Reserve and work together to standardize the Institute of Technology. maps and computer data both agencies rely upon for their Reviewing amendments to municipal and county land land use decisions. use ordinances is the responsibility of Commission planner Suzanne Low. Low works with municipalities to ensure that local zoning ordinances comply with Pinelands Com­ prehensive Management Plan standards. Low has a mas­ Group Urges Pinelands Water ters degree in community and regional planning and a Studies bachelors degree in urban and economic geography. Low has 10 years of planning experience and previously worked A committee of representatives from six government as a senior planner and consultant in British Columbia agencies has recommended a plan to assess the ecological where she specialized in regional planning. impacts of water withdrawals from Pinelands aquifers. Former Atlantic County planner Frederick McCamic is The committee was formed by the Pinelands Com­ responsible for regional planning and policy research for mission and the National Park Service after the Com­ the Commission. McCamic is evaluating the Pinelands De­ mission adopted a policy last August stating that Pinelands velopment Credit program and county and municipal aquifers should not be used as water supply sources for water quality management plans. He is the staff liaison for areas outside the Pinelands until the ecological effects of solid waste planning and is currently compiling a list of this use are fully understood. The research plan was de­ water supply and transportation projects that may be suit­ veloped by representatives of the Pinelands Commission, able for infrastructure funding. McCamic is a licensed the National Park Service, the Department of En­ planner and has a masters degree in regional planning from vironmental Protection, the U.S. Geological Survey, the the University of Pennsylvania. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Rutgers University's Two new members of the Commissioner's Development Division of Pinelands Research. The plan was presented Review staff are Andrew Windisch and Robert Watson. to the Commission's Work Plan and Public Involvement Windisch reviews development applications from all 13 Subcommittes on May 16. Pinelands municipalities in Ocean County plus Bass River The research plan recommends the completion of de­ Township in Burlington County. Windisch has a bachelors tailed hydrologic studies of drainage basins within the degree in environmental science and geology from Stock­ Pinelands, the development of ground water flow models ton State College and a masters degree in fire ecology from for these basins, a study of the ecological effects of water Rutgers University. He previously worked for an en­ supply development, and the compilation of all infor­ vironmental consulting firm in Philadelphia. mation regarding the geology and hydrology of the Bob Watson is responsible for reviewing applications in Pinelands. eight Pinelands municipalities. He previously worked as a Representatives of these agencies have formed another designer and technician for an environmental consulting committee to develop short term policies regarding the use . firm in Vermont. Watson has a bachelors degree in botany of the Cohansey and Kirkwood aquifers as water supply and environmental science from Rutgers University. sources until the recommended studies are completed. 2 Sewer Alternatives Proposed New Agency Would Aid Landowners

The Pinelands Commission staff, concerned that current The Pinelands Commission is considering whether to plans to install sewers in Camden County's Pinelands Area recommend the establishment of a non-regulatory govern­ could significantly deplete local aquifer levels, has asked ment agency that would help Pinelands landowners and county officials to consider several alternative sewerage promote some of the environmental protection programs approaches. initiated by the Comprehensive Management Plan. The Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority's Commission executive director Terrence Moore (CCMUA) plans to sewer portions of Chesilhurst, Water­ proposed the creation of a Pinelands Conservancy to the ford, and Winslow recommends transferring existing and 15 member Commission in December. The conservancy future sewage flows from Regional Growth Areas in these would help owners of substandard building lots find viable three municipalities to its treatment plant along the Dela­ non-development options for the property, help redesign ware River. The CCMUA had proposed to transfer 3.6 and market older subdivisions that did not meet Com­ million gallons per day from the Mullica River basin and prehensive Management Plan standards, help local of­ 2.75 million gallons per day from the Great Egg Harbor ficials and developers design more attractive developments, ~- River basin. The sewerage project would be partially promote the Pinelands Development Credit program, and funded with $3,145,800 in grants and loans from the develop land preservation strategies that lessen the econ­ Pinelands Infrastructure Trust Fund which provides $30 omic impact on Pinelands property owners. million for public sewerage projects in Pinelands Regional Moore noted that the California State Coastal Con­ Growth Areas. servancy has been operating since 1976 as a companion to In May 1987 the Pinelands Commission staff began an the California Coastal Commission, a regulatory agency assessment of sewer service alternatives for lower Camden similar to the Pinelands Commission. California created a County. The staffs May 1988 final report states that "in conservancy for the Lake Tahoe region and legislation has developing and exploring alternatives to meet the sewering been initiated in Florida to create a conservancy for the needs of the lower Camden County growth projections, the Florida Keys. primary concern was preserving the integrity of Wharton The Pinelands Commission has established a Pinelands State Forest" which depends on water from streams which, Conservancy Subcommittee which is considering Moore's under the county's proposal, would be transferred out of proposal and alternative methods to achieve the same ob­ the Cohansey aquifer and the Pinelands as wastewater and jectives. Moore said the subcommittee will meet with local pumped to the Delaware Basin. officials, environmentalists, landowners, builders, and Alternatives proposed for consideration by the other interested parties once all the advantages and disad­ Pinelands Commission staff include reducing sewage flows vantages of the alternatives have been explored. within Pinelands growth areas by lowering development densities, treating some of the sewage within the Pinelands, and the development of a regional water supply master plan in concert with regional sewerage plans. New Book Examines Pines Plans

Rutgers University Press has published a new book State PDC Bank Opens which gives a frank appraisal of the environmental, econ­ omic, and social consequences of the land use decisions The State Pinelands Development Credit Bank has set made by the Pinelands Commission. up operation and is currently seeking to purchase Protecting the New Jersey Pinelands: A New Direction Pinelands Development Credits (PDCs) from area land­ in Land-Use Management is edited by Beryl Robichaud owners. The bank is also willing to help developers Collins and Emily Russell and contains assessments of the purchase credits that allow them to increase the number Pinelands protection effart by eight experts in environmen­ of new homes they can build in Pinelands Regional tal science or land use planning. The book describes the Growth Areas. unique landscape, biology, and culture of the Pinelands Landowners interested in selling PDCs or developers and traces the origins of the federal and state legislation interested in purchasing them should contact John Ross, created to protect it. Acting Director, Pinelands Development Credit Bank, CN In 1983 the Fund for New Jersey, a private foundation 035 Trenton, NJ 08625-0035, (609) 588-3469. in East Orange, awarded Rutgers a grant to assess the Landowners in the Preservation Area or Agricultural implementation of the Pinelands Comprehensive Manage­ Production Areas wishing to sell their credits must first ment Plan. The study was carried out under the direction obtain a Letter of Interpretation from the Pinelands Com­ of Collins, an associate professor at Rutgers University's mission stating the number of credits attached to their Center for Coastal and Environmental Studies and a re­ property. Landowners then obtain a PDC Certificate from tired senior vice-president of McGraw Hill. the state bank prior to selling their credits. Each credit Copies of the book can be obtained for $35 (hardcover) purchased by a developer allows the construction of four or $12 (paperback) from Rutgers University Press, 109 additional homes in a Regional Growth Area. A new Church Street, New Brunswick, NJ 0890 I. (Additional brochure describing the Pinelands Development Credit postage and handling costs are $1.50 for the first book and program will be available this summer from the state bank 50¢ for each additional book. New Jersey residents must or the Pinelands Commission, P.O. Box 7, New Lisbon, add 6% sales tax). The book is also available at some NJ 08064. bookstores. 3 Pinelands Calendar Pinelands Commission July 8 Pinelands Commission meeting, Cranberry State Appointees Hall, Charles Street, Medford, New Jersey Candace McKee Ashmun ...... Far Hills August 5 Pinelands Commission meeting, Cranberry B. Budd Chavooshian ...... Trenton Hall, Charles Street, Medford, New Jersey Thomas B. Darlington ...... New Lisbon James Hyres ...... Jackson September 9 Pinelands Commission meeting, Cranberry Stephen V. Lee, III ...... Tabernacle Hall, Charles Street, Medford, New Jersey Judith Norcross ...... Moorestown September 18 Glass and bottle show, Batsto Village, Richard Sullivan, Chairman ...... Trenton Wharton State Forest, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; for information call (609) 561-0024 County Appointees September 24 Barnegat Bay gun and decoy show, Tip and 25 Seamen County Park, Lakeside Drive and Brian Lefke ...... Atlantic Route 9, Tuckerton; 9:00a.m. to 6:00p.m.; Michael J. Hogan ...... Burlington for information call (609) 296-5606 Ann Auerbach ...... Camden William J. Brown ...... Cape May Brian McFadden, Vice-Chairman ...... Cumberland Vicki Snyder ...... Gloucester Alan A very ...... Ocean

Annual Report Available Federal Appointee Copies of the Pinelands Commission's 1987 annual re­ James W. Coleman ...... Cherry Hill port can be obtained by writing to the Pinelands Com­ Executive Director ...... Terrence D. Moore mission, Public Programs Office, P.O. Box 7, New Lisbon, Assistant Director ...... William Harrison NJ 08064. Assistant Director ...... John C. Stokes

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