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Commissioner Robert K. Haelig Jr. |
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Mayor
Paul Brush |
At Council Meeting, Mayor Says OCUA Should Give Dover Old
Ortley Beach Sewer Plant Property
Commissioner Haelig, 25 Year DMUA Veteran, Tells Council "This
Is The Year To Make This Happen"
Click Here For Haelig's Presentation To
The Council on OCUA Ortley Property History
Mayor Paul Brush
proposed at the recent meeting of the Dover Township Council that the
Ortley Beach property owned by the Ocean County Utilities Authority
should be turned over to the township.
Mayor Brush said
the property should be donated by the OCUA because the county agency
has no plans to use the property which is the site of the old Ortley
Beach sewerage treatment plant that once treated sewerage for the
entire township.
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Freeholder
Vicari's Support Asked By Mayor Brush |
Brush asked the
council for support and told OCP later that he wrote to Freeholder
Joseph H. Vicari, a former Dover Township mayor and a candidate for
re-election, asking for Vicari's support for the idea.
Commissioner Haelig, In Attendance At Council
Meeting, Gives A History Of The Ortley Property
Veteran Dover
Utilities Authority Commissioner Robert K. Haelig Jr. concurred that
the property should be donated, and delivered a brief history of the
property which was sold to the county authority by the DMUA about 1981
after the OCUA became the exclusive regional sewerage treatment agency
in Ocean County.
"There are good
reasons that this transfer should be made at no cost to the township,"
Haelig said, "not the least of which is the history of excessive OCUA
charges in Dover Township."
Is The $3350 Per Million Gallon OCUA Rate
The Highest County Sewer Rate On The Planet?
"Unless something
has changed radically in the last three years, the OCUA treatment rate
of $3350 per million gallons of effluent is still the highest major
county sewer rate on the planet, more than 25% higher than Atlantic
County," Haelig said.
"And there are
numerous other ways the OCUA has been very unkind to the taxpayers of
Dover Township and the ratepayers of the DMUA," Haelig said.
"This would be an
opportunity for the OCUA to redress some serious grievances," he said,
referring to the possible no-cost acquisition by the township of the
Ortley Beach treatment plant property.
Your Second Opportunity To Access Commissioner
Haelig's Presentation on OCUA Ortley Property History
More on this
issue and the alleged waste of more than $500 million by the OCUA over
25 years, as OCP covers the vast wasteland.
This article
prepared for publication August 17, 2005.
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