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Three Projects Underway to Improve Sewer System in Pemberton Township Following MUA Takeover

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By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

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Solar Developer Proposes 10-Megawatt Solar Array for Inactive, Overgrown Landfill, Committing to Remediate Environmental Issues at Site If Designated as Redeveloper; Plan Would Also Restore Lot to Tax Rolls and Produce ‘Esoteric, Incremental’ Benefits

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

PE M BE RT ON — A n e x p e r i e n c e d developer of utility-scale solar photovoltaic power plants is eyeing a 26-acre closed landfill site in a remote section of Pemberton Township, near the Manchester Township border, for an approximately 10-megawatt landfill solar array.

CEP Renewables, LLC, of Red Bank, is proposing to arrange nearly 17,000 solar panels on the landfill, which sits just off of unimproved Pasadena Road, to generate 9.7 megawatts of power, according to Rodger Ferguson, an environmental consultant retained by the firm.

Steven P. Gouin, an attorney (with G iord a no, Halle r a n & Ciesla , PC) representing CEP, said that the firm is also

proposing to purchase the landfill from its existing owner, the township.

However, prior to any construction or purchase, Gouin has requested that the township designate the landfill as “an area in need of rehabilitation,” and through that designation, declare CEP as the redeveloper and establish a redevelopment plan.

Such a declaration, he said, would give the firm the “site control” necessary to make application for the solar array (and incentives, subsidies, etc. provided for such projects) to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) and Pennsylvania, Jersey, Maryland (PJM) Power Pool Interconnection regional transmission organization.

“Typically, when council hears the word ‘redevelopment,’ the first thing it thinks is, ‘Are they going to ask us for a PILOT

(Payment in Lieu of Taxes)?’” Gouin said.

“The answer here is ‘no.’ We don’t need a PILOT, and in fact, we wouldn’t necessarily want you to go through the redevelopment process – the rehabilitation process would actually be just fine for us.”

In order for the site to be considered an area in need of rehabilitation under the state’s Local Redevelopment and Housing Law, one of six statutory criterion (a significant portion of the structures studied within that area are deteriorated or in substandard condition; more than half of the housing stock in the delineated area is at least 50 years old, there is a pattern of vacancy, abandonment or underutilization of properties in the study area; there is See BRIGHTER/ Page 8

PEMBERTON—Three separate projects are now either underway or in the works to improve Pemberton Township’s sewer system, one year after Pemberton Township Council voted to dissolve the 50-year-old Pemberton Township Municipal Utilities Authority (PTMUA) and ten months after the municipality, as a consequence, assumed control of its utilities.

An ultraviolet (UV) disinfection system at the municipal wastewater treatment plant has been identified for replacement, as well as six pumps at three separate sewage pumping stations located in town, according to township officials. Additionally, geographic information system (GIS) mapping is being established for the sewer system so that the town can easily pinpoint its utilities.

The improvement work, authorized by council during its Oct. 7 and Oct. 21 meetings, just ahead of a contested Nov. 3 election in which party control of the currently Democraticcontrolled council is at stake, follows the legislative body’s 4-0 vote (Councilman Jason Allen, then-liaison to the PTMUA, was absent at the time) to dissolve the PTMUA on Oct. 2, 2019, a decision met at the time with fierce opposition from a standing-room only crowd.

PTM UA’s operations were of ficially transferred on Jan. 1 of this year through the dissolution to the Pemberton Township Department of Public Works’ Sewer Division.

Pemberton Township, at that time, also assumed control of the 2.5 million gallons-per-day activated-sludge wastewater-treatment plant that provides sanitary services to Pemberton Township, and part of Pemberton Borough.

One of the main contentions last year surrounding the takeover centered around See PROJECTS/ Page 7

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Pemberton BOE Member Resigns, Claiming Board Is ‘Not Going in the Right Direction’

By Andy Milone Staff Writer

PEMBERTON—A member of the Pemberton Township Board of Education, who contended he was not satisfied with the current trajectory of the Pemberton Township School District’s governing body, has resigned less than halfway through his third term to the surprise of board leadership.

The resignation of seven-year board member Tom Maier, which became effective Oct. 13, was announced at the board’s work session two days later, and unanimously accepted by the board following an executive session the same evening.

While Maier did not provide a reason for his departure in a resignation letter he provided to the board, he did share some insight on his decision in a telephone interview with this newspaper on Oct. 22.

“It was time, and the board, in my opinion, is not going in the right direction, but I wish them well,” he said.

Maier added that he wanted to see the board, specifically at meetings, be more open and transparent, asserting that he wished that “the public had more knowledge about what was happening and why decisions are happening.”

T he for mer d ist r ict mai ntena nce employee was re-elected by Pemberton voters in a contested 2019 election to serve a third three-year term from 2020 until 2022.

He served his first term on the board from 2014 until 2016, and his second from 2017 until 2019.

“I really enjoyed my time,” he said. “I loved working for the kids and community. After retiring, it was really fulfilling.”

Maier said hiring, and then working with former superintendent Tony Trongone was one

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“He (Trongone) turned the district into something better than what we were,” Maier said.

According to Board President Jeffrey Wilson, the board will attempt to appoint someone to the seat vacated by Maier, whom he called a “dedicated” member, sometime after the Nov. 3 general election, once those elected to three seats now up for contention are sworn into office.

“It (Maier’s resignation) comes as somewhat of a surprise,” said Wilson in a telephone interview with this newspaper on Oct. 20.

“With these types of resignations, when no reason is given (to the board), it leaves it up to the board to question why.”

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Pemberton Borough to Try Negotiating Directly with Trash-Disposal Companies After Failing to Attract Bidders for Trash Removal Services

By Andy Milone Staff Writer

PEMBERTON BOROUGH—After twice advertising for bids for a new trash collection and disposal contract and receiving no bites, Pemberton Borough will not be trying a third time, but instead will engage in direct negotiations with a number of companies of its choosing in hopes of soon nailing down a new multi-year pact to replace its recently expired agreement with its current vendor.

It may now have to spend more money in order to do so, however.

The borough’s five-year, $243,374 contract with Springfield-based Garden State Removal Company expired on Sept. 30. Bids were solicited by the borough on two different occasions, once for a 60-day period and then for a 30-day period, in hopes of awarding the contract to a low bidder, but after the second deadline passed on Oct. 15 without any bids being placed for the new five-year contract, direct negotiations became a legally available option for the borough.

In order to avoid an interruption in service in the meantime, the borough’s administration has made emergency arrangements for Garden State Removal to provide temporary trash services at slightly more than $4,000 per month, which is the same rate that the firm was paid under the recently expired contract.

Borough Clerk Donna Mull said she hopes the borough can negotiate a new contract before Dec. 31. While local officials will now have the flexibility to decide which solid waste collectors to approach, she said it is likely a new contract will cost more than the one that just expired.

“We’re calling any and all trash companies

here and around the area,” said Mull in a telephone interview with this newspaper on Oct. 22. “So hopefully, it won’t take that long.”

Mull and Mayor Harold Griffin said Garden State did not give a reason for its decision not to submit a bid this time around. Garden State declined to comment on this story.

According to Mull, Waste Management, one of North America’s largest waste removal companies which has previously serviced Pemberton Borough, told the borough its lack of interest in submitting a bid had to do with a shortage of manpower, as well as the company’s use of automated garbage trucks to pick up 96-gallon rolling carts, receptacles that are not currently supplied to borough residents.

“Whenever a community issues bid specs, we evaluate the service details, disposal options and proximity, staffing and equipment availability, the number of homes, the proximity of a community to our locations, and other factors and make a business determination about preparing and entering a bid,” said Waste Management Spokesman John Hambrose in a statement to this newspaper.

Hambrose, however, declined to provide specifics about Pemberton Borough’s case, due to, as he put it, the sensitivity of the information as it relates to competition.

Mull said she still plans to reach out to Waste Management, however, during the negotiating process, as well as Central Jersey Waste, Republic Ser vices, a nd South Jersey Sanitation in hopes of forging a five-year agreement with one of them, that would keep the borough’s weekly collection

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EVESHAM—A long-time Republican councilman’s decision to run for re-election this year as an Independent has thrown the current Evesham Township Council race into a greater state of uncertainty than usual by presenting local voters with a choice between three different factions, each offering its own

slate of contenders for two open council seats.

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Repairs are underway to a section of Rancocas Lane where a sinkhole formed on Oct. 20 due to a faltered sewer pipe.

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PEMBERTON—A roadway that services a mobile home park in the Browns Mills section of Pemberton Township has been closed temporarily due to a sinkhole, according to Business Administrator Daniel Hornickel.

Hornickel told this newspaper that he anticipates that it may take a couple of weeks before repairs are completed to Rancocas Lane, which services Belaire Park, Inc. “On Monday (Oct. 19), there was a depression on Rancocas Lane,” he said. “On Tuesday (Oct. 20), that depression turned into a sinkhole.

We sent our engineer out there, and it appears that our sewer pipe, which is about 15 feet underground, is compromised.”

The business administrator contended that the municipality requires the services of an outside contractor that can “go and open up the roadway and identify where the pipe has faltered,” or “has some greater capabilities” then the township’s Department of Public Works.

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Oct. 21 meeting, unanimously awarded an emergency roadwork contract not to exceed $80,150 to Mac-Rose Contractors Inc., based in Browns Mills. As part of that contract, the business administrator said the firm will cut the road open and remove and replace the section of faltered piping.

“Right now, this would probably get us in the range of 50 to 60 feet of pipe replacement to fix that fault in our sewer main, and then allow us to repair the roadway back to the point of allowing people to drive over it,” Hornickel said.

The business administrator, however, cautioned that “if for some reason the pipe failure is greater than what is accounted for here,” then the township administration will have to come back to council to request an amendment to the contract.

“The project will take a couple of weeks to dewater the broken pipe as the wastewater must be removed before the damaged pipe can be extracted and replaced,” said Hornickel to this newspaper on Oct. 26, noting that the project is currently in progress.

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entire five-person council from the Republicandominated entity it was until recently to an entirely Democratic one, as has already happened with the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders, now renamed the Board of County Commissioners.

That possibility hasn't been lost on township Republicans, whose spokesman, ex-councilman and cur rent Republican Club President Jay Levenson, acknowledged to the Pine Barrens Tribune Wednesday that incumbent Councilman Ken D’Andrea’s abandoning his GOP affiliation “could divide the party and cause us to have a reduced probability of winning,” since “as an incumbent he has a pretty good following.”

That following could well be amplified to a degree by the fact that D’Andrea, a lifelong local resident and prominent civic leader, enjoys a reputation in the community that transcends politics. As head of the Evesham Celebrations Foundation, he talks of working with “a wonderful group of Democrats, Republicans and Independents” to sponsor such events as the 4th of July Festival, Fall Fest, Winterfest and “Taste of Evesham” without having to use any “taxpayer dollars.”

When asked by this newspaper what had now prompted him to become, in effect, a candidate without a party, D’Andrea, who has announced his name will be in Column 3 on the ballot along with that of Stephen Fortino, responded that he believes “the (Republican) party has changed nationally and has also changed locally” and that “I think we both left each other.”

D’Andrea, who has served on council as a Republican since 2012, as well as having done a previous stint as a councilman from 2000-2005, denied his decision to jump ship had anything to do with the man at the top of the GOP ticket,

President Donald J. Trump, of whom he would only say “that is a whole other story.”

“I thin k both sides have thei r ow n challenges,” D’Andrea said.

But “running a town,” D’Andrea maintained, “is where the rubber meets the road” and is something that “should transcend what is going on nationally.”

“Steve and I running as Independents is a challenge, since we don’t have any party machinery or support to help us with this endeavor, but only our family and friends,” D’Andrea said. “However, I feel that this is an unprecedented time to run for office, and that there could be no better time to run as an Independent (given the circumstances and the COVID-19 pandemic).”

Fortino has long been involved in Evesham civic affairs and volunteer work, including having had 50 years of experience as a player, coach and trainer for the Marlton Recreation Council. In a phone conversation, he told the Pine Barrens Tribune that in addition to discouraging “partisan politics” in the township, he would like to get more residents to participate in local government, because many “have good ideas, but don’t always know how to become part of the process.” He also made a point of his running mate’s experience in obtaining state and federal grants.

Meanwhile, with both D’Andrea and Councilman Bob DiEnna, who has declined to run again, no longer on the Republican ticket, the GOP has had to recruit two new candidates, Drew Wilson, who has served on the township Zoning Board, and Jason Inglessis, a treasurer for previous GOP campaigns (the latter having been selected as a replacement for Mark Mancuso, who withdrew his candidacy in August “for personal reasons.”)

Wilson, when contacted by this newspaper, said that although he and Inglessis might not have had D’Andrea’s and Fortino’s years of

HAMMONTON—Penza’s Pies at the Red Barn Café, nestled in the heart of the Pinelands and a favorite stop of Route 206 commuters, was brazenly burglarized while “open for business and employees were on-scene” during the early afternoon hours of Oct. 24.

Ha m monton Ch ief of Police Kev i n Friel told this newspaper that authorities were called to the establishment located in Hammonton ( just south of Shamong Township) around 3:12 p.m. on Oct 24 after it was realized by employees that a “man dressed in black, wearing a gold chain and gold watch,” seemingly patronizing the business, actually took wallets from pocketbooks that were put in an office off-limits to the public, along with $2,000 in cash from a cash register drawer “while the workers were not looking.”

“He was actually talking to the employees during his time in the store and committing the offenses,” Friel said.

The suspect, who purportedly left the establishment in an unknown direction, in a white van, according to the police chief, was identified through security camera footage and the use of a police information network, as Shanndoah Gray, 48, of Mount Holly.

“He is still at large,” said Friel on Oct. 28.

Gray has been charged with two counts of theft, and a single count of burglary. The latter count, according to the police chief, is the result of the suspect allegedly entering “an area that the public is not privileged to do so.”

According to Friel, this was the only incident of its kind reported in the area that day. Gray’s information, according to the police chief, was in the police information network “because another police department had previous encounters with the subject before” and “was able to identify him for us.”

Friel noted that the incident was not a “robbery” as had been initially reported on social media.

Police Make Arrest in 7-Eleven Robbery Case Teen Was Previously Arrested for Robbing Wawa

PEMBERTON—Authorities have charged a 17-year-old male in connection with an early morning May robbery of a 7-Eleven store in the Browns Mills section of Pemberton Township.

Lt. Jay Watters, a spokesman for the Pemberton Township Police Department, has told this newspaper that the teen is the same one who was charged with robbing a Wawa store at knifepoint in Pemberton just after 3 a.m. on Sept. 14.

The charges involving the 7-Eleven incident that occurred at 3:11 a.m. on May 11, when the suspect allegedly entered the store, brandished a knife and demanded that a cash register be emptied, were filed on Oct. 23. The teen was arrested the same day.

“On Oct. 23, Det. Sgt. Hood received

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“The 17-year-old male who was identified as the suspect is the same subject who was arrested and charged on Sept. 15 for a robbery that occurred at the WaWa located in Pemberton the previous day.”

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whether the then-PTMUA had invested in the sewer infrastructure.

Stephanie Cuthbert, of Remington & Vernick, an engineering consultant retained by council to perform a financial analysis of the utility authority, contended in December 2018 that the then-PTMUA had made minimal improvements to the infrastructure within the past five years, developed a capitalimprovement plan that was not robust enough and was destined to experience a financial shortfall within ten years.

The engineer said the review found that the then-PTMUA conducted about $900,000 in historic investments to its system from 2013 to 2017, “which is about $180,000 per year.”

She also said that the then-PTMUA had about $500,000 in capital expenses during the same time period, “which is about $100,000 per year.”

Additionally, Cuthbert contended in 2018 that the then-PTMUA’s capital-improvement plan had called for numerous projects totaling $10 million to be undertaken over a ten-year period. A $10 million, ten-year plan, she contended, should have resulted in an average of $1 million in annual improvements.

John Gillespie, an attorney who represented the then-PTMUA, in response, had asserted that the township’s engineering consultant would have the municipality spend some “$3.5 million a year on infrastructure,” and contended that the then-PTMUA had “successfully ran the operation without ever spending that kind of money” and had not “been sitting on anything.”

Gaye Burton, who served as a councilwoman at the time of the dissolution vote, and is now council president, contended right before the dissolution decision was made by the legislative body that the engineering consultant’s findings showed a “lack of treating and maintaining a lot of the infrastructure” by the then-PTMUA. Council, during its Oct. 7 meeting, awarded 4-0 (Councilwoman Norma Trueblood was absent from that meeting), a $259,000 contract to Howell-based BR Welding (said to be the lowest responsible bidder of four bidders) for replacement of the UV disinfection system at the wastewater treatment plant.

Township Engineer Ch ris Rehman n, during that meeting, contended that the UV disinfection system provides for protection of the receiving stream “for what comes out of the wastewater treatment plant.” He contended that when his team “got in there to take a look at it,” it was discovered that one of two channels was “not only not in operation,” but that “they were scavenging pieces of the equipment to fix the other channel.”

Rehmann told council that the situation posed “a very unusual situation” for him, despite providing engineering services to a number of towns over the years.

“So, by your (council) actions, we are actually

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Business Administrator Daniel Hornickel conducts a YouTube video tour of one of the tanks at the Pemberton Township Wastewater Treatment Plant. putting that environment, in my opinion, in better shape,” he said. “… Sometimes, the consequences of what you do and act on here (in council chambers), you don’t always see or hear what is happening as a result of what you have done. And this is, I think, a major step.”

Council, during its Oct. 21 meeting, unanimously authorized a $408,930 purchase of six Sulzer ABS submersible pumps from the North Jersey (Passaic Valley) Wastewater Cooperative Purchasing System “for the three largest pump stations that pump raw wastewater to our sewer treatment plant.”

According to Business Administrator Daniel Hornickel, the pumps will be replaced at municipal pump stations 2 (located off New Lisbon Road), 4 (located at 250 PembertonBrowns Mills Road) and 5 (located at Bridge and Noteboom streets).

“The pumping equipment in there, while it is still functional and operational, is from 1973,” Hornickel contended. “It has exceeded its useful life by about 12 years as it is good for 35 years. So, by continuing to use that equipment, it is obviously at risk for failure.”

Hornickel noted that each pump station has two pumps in it, “so there is redundancy” to

continue to pump sewage should one pump break.

“But, as you can appreciate, having pumps with motors from 1973 – that is before the oil crisis in the 1970s – these things aren’t particularly efficient,” the business administrator said. “These are using electricity, so they are very electric intense. What we are asking for council’s approval to do is to purchase six new pumps, two for each of the stations. The pumps will be much more efficient not only in reducing our energy costs, but also in actually shredding what gets poured down into the sewer system.”

Hor n ickel contended that there a re “advanced shredding teeth” at the bottom of the new pumps, and that the current pumps, which purportedly lack them, cannot process flushable wipes that have become more prevalent in households over the last several years.

“You hear about these ‘flushable’ wipes, but right now, for us, they are not flushable,” Hornickel said. “They cause jams, and in fact, we had a consequence of failure back in January because of those kinds of wipes being pumped through the system and jamming it. It cost us

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$60,000 to fix.”

Hornickel noted that by the municipality purchasing the new pumps through a state contract, “it will save us literally a fortune,” or as much as 30 percent.

The business administrator told this newspaper that he does not yet have a start date yet for the installation of the new pumps, however, as the township has to first “advertise a bid” for the “demolition and rehabilitation work for the pump stations” to retrofit them for the installation of the new pumps. However, he added that it is his hope that the legislative body will award a contract for the latter work during one of two scheduled December council meetings.

“By council directly permitting us to purchase directly through the Passaic Valley Sewage Commission Co-op, we are saving hundreds of thousands of dollars that we can reinvest into the sewer treatment system,” Hornickel said. “We are almost done with the specifications for the demolition and rehabilitation of those three pump stations.

Once we put that project out to bid, and council approves a contract for a company to do that, the new pumps will be installed.”

Also, during the Oct. 21 council meeting, the legislative body awarded a $47,500 contract to Adams, Rehmann & Heggan (ARH) to create “digital mapping” or GIS mapping of the sewer utilities in the township.

“They are going to go out there and verify where our systems start and end,” Hornickel said. “This does have the benefit of enabling us to pinpoint where our utilities are when we have to replace a pipe – we can go to the exact location. It will also help with the One-Call utility mark outs when somebody has to open up a road or what not. You will have better accuracy on the location of where our sewer piping, and all of our sewer assets, lie.”

Hor n ickel later poi nted out to th is newspaper that in just 10 months of the township running the sewer system, officials also paved “a new, second driveway” adjacent to the wastewater treatment plant and rehabilitated “the Headworks,” or, as he put it, the structure that starts the process of treating wastewater.

“We are working on both ‘ends’ of the wastewater treatment process and intend to eventually rehabilitate everything in between,” he said.

Residents can watch Mayor David Patriarca hold a recent sit-down discussion with Hornickel about the town’s future plans for the sewer system by visiting https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=OPOuE6XoVyY. Patriarca, in that video, which also includes the township’s top officials touring the wastewater treatment plant, contends MUAs are “political machines,” and offers a defense for dissolving the PTMUA, contending that an annual $565,000 lease payment it was paying to the township can be “reinvested” back into the municipal sewer infrastructure, “which the report we had received indicated there were considerable deficiencies.”

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a persistent arrearage of property tax payments on properties in the area; environmental contamination discourages improvements and investment in properties in the area; or a majority of the water and sewer infrastructure in the delineated area is at least 50 years old and is in need of repair or substantial maintenance) has to be met through findings from a redevelopment study that the town’s elected body ultimately concurs with.

Fe rg u son , pre side nt of Pe n n Je r sey Environmental Consulting, who at one time served as an environmental commissioner for Pemberton, and Gouin, discussed CEP’s plan for the landfill in detail during an Oct. 21 Pemberton Township Council meeting, and following their presentation, the legislative body authorized a redevelopment study of the area.

Gouin contended that “everything is at CEP’s expense,” and council also authorized the establishment of an escrow account funded

by CEP “to pay all the township’s professional costs” associated with the project.

“At this point, legally, the only thing that is before the township is to authorize a study to determine whether or not this meets ‘an area in need of rehabilitation,’ and to approve the escrow agreement with CEP,” said Township Solicitor Andrew “Andy” Bayer. “… If the planner, who we hire, makes recommendations, it is going to have to go to the Planning Board, and it is going to come back here … it is not a quick process.

“Ultimately, you (council) will have to make a determination, based on the planning boards’ advice, whether or not this meets an area in need of rehabilitation. As Steve (Gouin) points out, it probably does, but regardless, until all that is done, until the proofs are in, we don’t know that, and then, the township, assuming that a finding is made, will ultimately have to select a redeveloper and develop a redevelopment plan. So, there is a long way to go here, but just so you understand, there is a very discrete legal process before you at this time, which is starting the process to determine whether or not this could be an area in need of rehabilitation under the Local Redevelopment and Housing Law.” Gouin, who has been representing CEP for the last 7 years, noted that it has been discovered that the landfill “has been inactive for quite some time,” but that it “apparently was not properly closed.” He said that as a result, the firm will have to apply to the NJBPU for certification for state subsidies for solar.

“One of the conditions of that approval is that we are going to have to cap this landfill and make sure that it is appropriately capped and controlled, and all those things, and we are going to have to take on the obligation to maintain it going forward,” he said. “And that will be all part of our permitting process

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Ferguson noted that the township at one point had an environmental consultant do a “file review” of the landfill, but “it seemed like the file kind of died in 1984 when NJDEP ordered the landfill to be capped.” He added that of the records he has been able to review, “there were groundwater issues at the time.”

“There were several wells that were installed, and through the `90s, those were required to be monitored,” Ferguson said. “And that program, because of a legal challenge, ended. That is kind of where it sits.”

Business Administrator Daniel Hornickel, at the start of the presentation, had noted that there are five homes in the vicinity of the landfill, which is located on the backside of cranberry bogs (operated by Joseph J. White Farm).

“There are 18 acres of landfill space, according to NJDEP records, and the site is about 26 acres,” Ferguson said.

The environmental consultant asserted that the landfill “with trees growing through it” is “kind of just sitting there, fallow” and “finding it is a challenge” because it is “very overgrown.”

CEP, Ferguson said, is proposing a program that would, first, investigate the landfill to make sure that it has an appropriate cap on it, “which typically would consist of two feet of clean soil.” He said the firm would then “reimplement a groundwater sampling program” and determine the existence and direction of any “groundwater plume.”

“We want to make sure nobody is drinking it, more importantly,” he said. “There was a report to that effect in the file – one of the houses on the backside of the cranberry bog. Whether it is connected or not, we don’t know.”

Once any environmental issues associated with the landfill are remediated, Ferguson said CEP would then “put solar on it.”

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Ferguson noted that CEP does not “drill anything into landfills” when installing solar arrays because it does not want to disturb the cap, but rather places the solar panels on top of concrete blocks. The solar panels, he added, consist of metal, sand and a conductor and would not result in any environmental contamination.

Both Ferguson and Gouin indicated that there is an exhaustive permitting process, including from the NJDEP and Pinelands Commission, that is required in order for the project to be able to proceed.

“Ultimately, we would bear the cost of all the permitting effort,” Gouin said. “Then, once all the permitting is in place and we can connect the facility, we would purchase the landfill from the town. Then, we would operate the facility and go our separate ways.”

Gouin noted that “after the useful life of the facility,” which he put at around 30 years, CEP would “take off all the solar panels and equipment, and return the site to its natural condition and likely preserve it.” Ferguson added, however, that it is also possible that another “stronger” solar array could be placed on the site at the end of the initial facility’s useful life, making it a “permanent facility.”

“The concept plan shows 570 wat ts (generated) per panel,” Gouin said. “So, when we started doing this 10 years ago, 70-80 watts (were generated) per panel. So, the technology has improved ‘that much.’ Who knows what the technology is going to look like 20-30 years from now?”

Councilman Donovan Gardner asked the CEP representatives who would be responsible

for the plot of land once the solar array is removed, and in response, Gouin called it a “good question” and “definitely something we would have to think about.”

“We have to pay taxes, we own it,” said Gouin, asserting that there would be a decommissioning agreement. “We maybe would have to dedicate it to open space.”

Gouin noted during his presentation that “a lot of developers are nervous about purchasing a landfill” because “obviously there is a lot of liability associated with a landfill,” but contended purchasing them is “a unique thing that CEP does differently from some other solar developers” even though they are a “daunting task.”

Council President Gaye Burton, in response to hearing CEP’s interest in purchasing the Pasadena Road landfill, all despite purported environmental issues at the site, asked, “Why would CEP want to take on such an obligation to purchase this landfill? – What is the advantage?”

“Because it is money,” Gouin replied.

“Eventually, CEP Is going to make money off the facility.”

Gouin indicated that a large area is needed to establish enough solar panel rows that will generate sufficient, profitable amounts of electricity. Farmland, he said, was initially targeted for such solar arrays, but in 2012, state officials changed course, and “decided they wanted to make an effort to preserve farmland and not have it all become solar” by offering incentives to firms that target brownfields, landfills, and sites of historic fill (which also tend to be large landmasses) for solar installations.

“The answer to your question is, ‘That is where the solar can go and where you can fit a facility of a substantial enough size to make it work: paying the town a fair price for the landfill, and also turning a profit once the thing is interconnected,” Gouin said. “… These facilities create power and we force the grid to buy it from us.”

Councilwoman Elisabeth McCartney, upon hearing that response to Burton’s question, asked, “Will it benefit our residents, and will we tap into that at all?”

Gouin replied “it is a is a complicated answer,” contending that there will be “sort of an esoteric benefit to your residents like there will be to every ratepayer across New Jersey,” and that “there will be some minor incremental benefit to the people who are most closely located around this facility, just based on what the utilities charge for transmission, but it is very minute.”

“We are proposing just rate supply, where we pump electricity into the grid and sell it at wholesale rates – very low rates,” Gouin said. “The stock answer is ever ybody benefits from green energy, to some degree, reducing all of the costs associated with coal and everything like that.”

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Noting that he does project management for a Fortune 500 company and Inglessis runs a small business, Wilson added that he believes “we can bring some balance to the township council and make sure the best possible ideas are brought forward from all sides.”

In a separate phone interview with this newspaper, Inglessis cited among his reasons for running, his concerns that Democrats on the council would defund the police and deprive the schools his children attend of a resource officer, since they had not vowed that they wouldn’t do that, and because he felt the current council won’t be proactive enough in luring new businesses into town to replace those that have closed as a result of the pandemic.

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by Evesham Democratic Chairman Mark Natale, who contended that “the Republican ticket has repeated this fearmongering tactic of defunding the police” even though “the Democratic majority on the town council just passed a budget that fully funded the police” and had been actively advocating for familyrun businesses in Evesham “after years of Republicans doing nothing to support local and small businesses.”

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2021 election cycle to decide who fills the remaining year of Maier’s term.

“I'm shocked,” declared Vice President Terry Maldonado in a statement to this newspaper.

“Tom was very knowledgeable and a great asset to the board, and his love and dedication to our

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Hor n ickel, i n voici ng the tow nship administration’s support for council to move forward with a redevelopment study, offered, as he put it, “five bullet points that help sell this project.” He said there are no out of pocket costs for the municipality, CEP is basically proposing to cleanup and cap a landfill that has been uncapped “and has gone to the wild,” the project is going to return the property that is “currently not giving us a dollar of revenue” to the tax rolls, the project is going to produce green energy and CEP is a firm with “tremendous resources” that has “close connections into the statehouse.”

“So, it is not some fly-by-night law firm here;

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students will never go unnoticed, but at the same time, I am not surprised.

“This is a ver y time-consuming and thankless job that requires hours away from our family, and with everything going on, not only in the world, but as a district with budget cuts, COVID-19, and a superintendent search, it adds to the pressure of being a board of education member. I would like to wish Tom well and hopefully he will consider running for the board in the future.” this is a law firm shepherding this that has tremendous resources up into the statehouse that could really get this project to fruition if it proves to be a feasible project,” Hornickel said.

Council unanimously authorized the redevelopment study and creation of an escrow account.

“W hat we found in other sit uations like this, particularly where these landfill properties are township owned, they are not doing anything for the town,” Gouin said.

“They are basically sitting there. They are a liability for the town. They are not generating any tax revenue for the town; they are just there and become an obligation. So, when we say that we want to come in and take over this obligation, we are really proposing something that we think is a win-win for everybody and what is going to be a true public, private partnership.”

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Mull also did not rule out reaching a new deal with the current provider, which she contended is “aware” of the borough’s cu r rent sit uation and has been an adequate trash hauler over the life of the contract.

“There are complaints, but there have been no major issues with Garden State,” she said.

A m o ng t h e c o m pl a i nt s h ave b e e n t ho s e of Re sid e nt D ia ne Fa nu c ci , a

regular attendee of Pemberton Borough Council meetings, who has said she “can’t wait to get rid of these guys,” alleging that the company’s workers often leave a mess behind. In July, Fanucci said she made officials aware of trash bags that had purportedly fallen off one of the company’s trucks, and were left in the middle of Mary Street.

Five ye a r s ago, G a rde n St at e a nd Waste Management were the only two companies to place bids with the borough at $243,374 and $332,592, respectively, for t he five -yea r com m it ment. Waste M a n a g e m e n t w a s t h e b o r o u g h ’s contracted vendor before it switched to Garden State.

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