Bayshore Tow Ns Forced to Use County Dum P

THE & -C/v K.A *v n d e p e n d e n t / V v * • I ☆ The W eekly Newspaper ☆ ft ☆ ^ < * V ’ v * V __________ Vol. 13 NO. 40 Wednesday, Aug. 4, 1982 20 Cents State ban on use of Global to boost garbage costs \ Bayshore towns forced to use county dump By Kate Boots higher dumping fees at the county facility. budgeted $6 4 80 for additional mileage costs day by a train on its way to Tinton Falls, the- Scavengers who had been dumping garbage Scavengers who contract directly with resi and allocated more funds for a state tax on driver was unable to reach the facility by its from Bayshore towns at a Middlesex County dents will not be able to pass on the additional garbage and other anticipated expenses. 3:30 p.m. closing time, the dispatcher said. landfill were forced this week to begin using costs to customers until the Public Utilities The truck had to return with its load to the county dump in Tinton Falls. Commission approves a rate increase, of Officials in Union Beach, whose five-year Keyport, he added. Locai municipal officials, who had sought ficials said. contract with Meadowbrook Carting Co., Trips to Global had taken about 20 minutes an extension of a 1980 agreement between the Tetroand Sons, Union Beach, and Sano Car Marlboro, expires in June, have said that the each way, less than half the 45 minutes re two counties permitting the towns to dump at ting, Keyport, both contract directly with agreement indicates only that the scavenger quired to drive to Tinton Falls “when you’re Global Landfill, Old Bridge, were told last residents in sections of Hazlet and Keans must remove waste. The contract does not going on a good day with no traffic,” accor week they must now use the county dump. burg. specify the borough has any responsibility for ding to Sano office manager Marilyn Marella. The order, issued by the State Dept, of En Some municipalities—-including Keyport where or how garbage is dumped, they said. vironmental Protection, was expected to in and Matawan—provided for the contingency “If they (garbage workers) get two flats out crease the towns’ cost of garbage disposal by of having to dump at the county landfill in Gleason said the township will be able to there, which happens, they could forget about tens of thousands of dollars a year. contracts with scavengers signed earlier this pay the additional cost this year with revenue half the garbage on the street,” the dispatch In 1980, the county said it would construct a year. sharing funds and provisions made in the er added. transfer station for Bayshore waste by the Keyport and Matawan officials said at the municipal budget. time the DEP began enforcing a ban on the time that they doubted a transfer station Scavengers said that the county facility’s use of the Global Landfillby Monmouth Coun would be built by June. “We’re going to pay it,” Gleason said. “We tipping fees are much higher than Global’s ty municipalities. Aberdeen Township Manager Paul Gleason have to.” because the county charges by weight and But the transfer station was never built. said Monday that using the county dump until Global charges by the cubic yard. Coitfity officials have said that they had dif the end of the year will cost the township an Scavengers have said they are upset at hav ficulty selecting a suitable site for the pro additional $16,000. The annual increase, he ing to dump in Tinton Falls. “They’re (scavengers) quite upset, they’re posed facility. said, would be about $40,000, equivalent to an all annoyed about it,” said a Tetro represen Meanwhile, the municipalities and private additional $5 on the average resident’s gar According to a dispatcher for Sano, prob tative. “I think its going to hurt a lot of com residents contracting with the scavengers bage tax. lems arose the first day employees tried to panies because they don’t make that kind of will have to pay the increased costs incurred According to Matawan Borough Coordinat use the county dump. money. We’re going to have to get more for it, as a result of hauling garbage farther and or Michael Piperno, borough officials had Because a garbage truck was delayed Mon so the consumers are going to be hurt by it.” MICHAEL PIPERNO PAUL GLEASON Project seen as first step in redevelopment plan Waterfront park may boost K&yport's levy 6.6 cents By Kate Boots nancing for the proposed park, Carusoe esti finance repair of a parking lot on American of the borough’s application. If the borough receives a Green Acres design work, and not total construction costs, KEYPORT mated that principal and interest on $500,000 Legion Drive, removal of old pilings, and “Right now, we just don’t know if we have matching grant, the state would reimburse it Carosue said. If the Borough Council agrees to spend in bonds would total about $51,000 the first dredging of the borough harbor by the Army an agreement or approval,” Gillen said. for half of the project’s cost after the work is The two-phase plan would also give the Corp of Engineers, according to Borough completed. The borough initially would have council more time to “get a better idea of the $498,000 for a waterfront park this year, the year. He added that the borough will apply for a Engineer Timothy Gillen. to issue municipal bonds for the entire whole project,” he added. local property tax rate could rise by 6.6 cents The borough would not have to start paying DEP grant which would provide up to $25,000 $498,000. The borough could then submit plans later .per $100 of assessed valuation in 1984, accord the principal and interest until a year after Councilmen last night were concerned that for development of master plans for water ing to Borough Auditor Herbert Carusoe. •the project is completed, he added. Officials the borough’s project wa? not included on a in the year for total construction costs and front development projects. Gillen said that he will ask the state The park would be built along American hope the park could be finished next year. list of approved shore protection grants pub supply the additional $8,000 through a trans Officials said they envision an eventual w hether the borough could split the project in Legion Drive. The park project is the first step in a pro lished by the DEP’s Coastal Resources Divi fer of funds, according to officials. "rustic motif” for the town, similar to that of to two phases so that the council would not The auditor said he based his estimate on posed plan to redevelop the borough’s water sion. Carusoe said that he could only guess at the Mystic Seaport, Conn., which would attract have to makean^mergency appropriation for the borough’s current valuations and a possi front in an effort to attract businesses and Projects for the Aberdeen beachfront and a future interest rate on bonds, but that the rate tourists and businesses. approximately $8,000. ble 12 percent interest rate on municipal other ratables, Mayor Richard Bergen said. seawall in Middletown were included on the for tax-exempt organizations should be half of Last week, the council, concerned that the Under normal procedures,, the council the prime rate, which is now 15 percent. bonds which the borough would have to issue The borough has already applied to the list for 75 percent funding. .. town could not afford to pay its share of the would have to adopt an ordinance authorizing Councilmen, who have still not finalized to finance the project. State Dept, of Environmental Protection for a Borough Manager John Kennedy, was to , pstinr.aied &75J227 cost, shaved $176,492 from the expenditure of five percent df the total park plans, said they want to economize but At a special meeting Monday to discuss fi $400,000 shore protection grant which would call the division today to ask about the status I Ihe park plans. > bond issue—or about $24,000—immediately, do not want a shoddy facility. Carusoe said. “Our ultimate goal here is to get some There is now only $16,000 in the budget for ratables to locate on the waterfront,” Bergen IFF ag rees to subsidize unprofitable rail spur the project, he added. said. “We’ve got to have something there to If the state permits the borough to divide make the property look more attractive if we UNION BEACH amount represents what Conrail estimates it The contract will run until August 1983. between August 1983 and August 1986, accord the project into two phases, an initial applica want to sell the old water plant and the Stich International Flavors and Fragrances Inc. would need to charge IFF for delivery of raw The second phase, estimated by Conrail to ing to Dalton. tion would reflect only engineering costs for lots.” Monday signed a contract with Conrail for a materials to the plant and a share of the cost cost $166,000, would involve maintaining the Dalton said that although IFF was willing $267,075 two-phase program to rehabilitate of rail employees, salaries, insurance, and line at Class I standards, the minimum level “to make the commitment” to pay the first the Natco rail spur. other items, he added. set by the Federal Railroad Administration part of the project, “the company is definitely Conrail last year announced that it planned going to be looking for funds to assist” it in to abandon the 3.9-mile line, which links the maintaining the line.

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