Navy Alters Options in Sand Plan Board Seeks Earle Status Clarification
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SINCE 1878 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1986 25 CENTS Navy alters Board seeks options in Earle status sand plan clarification By STEPHANIE GLUCKMAN By MARY GAY JOHNSON The Register The Register Bowing to pressure - from state and federal COLTS NECK — The Colts Neck School Board said legislators, U.S. Naval officials have decided to give yesterday it will seek clarification from the U.S. Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach a better chance to Navy regarding a letter it sent the board on board receive 3.2 million cubic yards of sand for their members' concerns with the expansion of Earle beaches. Naval Weapons Station and its effects on the ; Navy officials announced yesterday that they had township. changed their plans to name Sandy Hook as the The school board sent a letter to the Navy in the "preferred alternative" in an environmental impact nation's capital a few weeks ago, detailing the statement they are preparing. members' five major concerns with the proposed 500' Now, a naval engineering command in THE ncaiSTCT/JtM TOS8ETT new additions going in at Earle — expected to bring Philadelphia will name three options in the state- with them as many as 1,200 military personnel and ment — Sandy Hook, Sea Bright-Monmouth Beach, their families — and 600 children to the township and the Mud Dump — an undersea dump site six 'Leafing' life behind school system. miles off Sandy Hook. The environmental statement In the Navy's response the board received will term all three as environmentally acceptable. Jamas Bennett, 12, of Middtetown, rolls down cow red the possibilities and Joys of roWng Thursday, officials failed to address several of those The statement also outlines the Navy's plans to a leaf-strewn sidewalk In Middletown. Bennett tW walking, grievances and so the negotiations will continue next dredge the sand from the Naval Weapons Station purchased a skateboard recently and dls- week, School Board President David Kostka said Earle pier area and from a channel in Sandy Hook yesterday. Bay. The final decision on where to place the Kostka said he could not divulge specific details dredged sand will be made by Secretary of the Navy about the Navy's response, since the board has not John Lehman, and state legislators explained that yet contacted the Navy about the need for a the environmental statement will be the primary clarification. basis for his decision. Substandard? The five basic tenets the school board is at odds with the Navy are: • That the current status of the Environmental Based on yesterday's Assessment Study completed by Earle and Naval officials — required for all government expansion announcement, local legislators Marlboro Hospital care criticized that would affect a residential area — was not say it is much more likely that conducted properly. By JUDY HOLMES • That the construction; of the housing units is on Sea Bright and Monmouth ••The state has neglected this institution wetlands. The Register • That the legal rights of the taxpayers and Beach will win the sand. and has not fulfilled its obligation to the residents in Colts Neck were violated. The school MARLBORO — The Mental board has estimated that the influx of Earle school Health Association of Monmouth public to provide a safe and therapeutic children will create an 82 percent increase to the County has submitted a critical Yesterday's announcement by naval officials system's 740-student enrollment. The expansion report on the care and conditions environment. •• could realize at least a 10 percent increase in marks the second time they have, changed their at Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital minds about the sand. Last summer, Sandy Hook was to Gov. Thomas H. Kean and Drew Judith Rose 'residents' property taxes to pay for an estimated the preferred alternative — until the Federal Fish E. Altman, commissioner of the Board of Directors president $1.2 million rise in the school system budget which and Wildlife Service objected that dumping at Sandy stale Department of Human Ser- the Earle children will create. Hook would disrupt the nesting of two species of vices. • That the Navy prepare a valid Environmental' birds — the piping plover and leaf tern. ceived complaints . from family ation of hospital administration Assessment Study. "The state has neglected this members of patients at the hospi- and staff members, Rose said. • That the Navy halt all construction of the But after protest from Sandy Hook park officials institution and has not fulfilled its tal about substandard care and The association has declined to who said the narrow peninsula's single access road housing units at the 7,000-acre base — 45 percent obligation to the public to provide life-threatening conditions at the release the contents of the report which lies in Colts Neck Township — until the would wash away without the sand to replenish a safe and therapeutic environ- hospital. Rose said. until the commissioner has had a beaches, the federal service withdrew its objection'. proper environmental documents have been ment," said Judith Rose, president Every problem discussed in the chance to review it and propose a prepared and opened for public comment. Then, much to the chagrin of area legislators, the of the association's board of direc- report is documented by at least plan of action. tors. In efforts to speed up the process because of the Navy last month returned to its original preference three sources, said Ginger This is the third commissioner necessity for a compromise and possible solution, — Sandy Hook. The report is the result of a Mulligan, executive director of the the association has worked-with Kostka said the board will be in verbal contact with three-year investigation into con.- But based on yesterday's announcement, local association. since the study began, Mulligan officials at the Navy Office General of Counsel in ditions at the hospital which -The study was conducted with said, and since he has inherited legislators say it is much more likely that Sea Bright began after the association re- See EARLE, Page 4A and Monmouth Beach will, win the sand. Among1 the full knowledge and cooper- See HOSPITAL, Page 4A others, Senator Frank Pallone Jr., D-Monmouth and Assemblyman Anthony "Doc" Villane Jr. had lob- bied Lehman, President Reagan, and other federal officials on behalf of the two boroughs. Asian leaders Villane and Pallone, who sponsored bills to fund the extra cost of moving the sand south to the pledge to find boroughs, have claimed that lives and property in Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach are more important than the recreational use of the park. American POWs The highly-developed boroughs both suffer from sorely-eroded beaches, which leave their seawalls By IRA ROSENFELD vulnerable to relentless wave action. The seawalls Associated Press Writer are crumbling, and waves frequently wash over them, flooding Ocean Avenue. The environmental impact statement is scheduled WASHINGTON — Communist resistance leaders' to be sent to tlit' federal Environmental Protection from three Southeast Asian,nations pledged yester- Agency for review Nov. 14. On Nov. 21, it is to be day to find and return any American prisoners of published in the Federal Register, intitiating a 30 war still held captive in that part of the world. day period during which Lehman is barred by law Son Sann, prime minister of Kampuchea, joined from making a final decision. military resistance leaders from Vietnam and Laos announcing they had ordered their forces to free any See SAND, Page 4A POWs still held in their respective nations. Lottery ««We pledge to return these men to their country and not The winning number drawn last night in New allow the communists to use Jersey's Pick-It Lottery was 054. A straight bet pays $346.50, box pays $57.50 and pairs pay them as bargaining chips. •• $34.50. The Pick 4 number was 7740. A straight bet pays $2,373 and box pays $197.50 , Gen. Kham-ou Boussarath United Lao Liberation Front The winning number drawn last night in New Officials of the National Vietnam Veterans Coali-r Ycrk's Daily Number lottery game was 3-8-0. 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