Date: Fri 07-Jun-1996

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDYG

Quick Words:

sewer-district-Hanover

Full Text:

WPCA Rejects Sewer District Expansion Plan

Water Pollution Control Authority (WPCA) members have decided against

expanding the sewer district to include Blakeslee Drive, as well as sections

of Newfield Lane and Hanover Road.

WPCA Chairman Peter Alagna said the responses to a town questionnaire

submitted to residents living in those areas indicated that residents there

have insufficient interest in being connected to sewers to expand the sewer

district.

Of the 19 questionnaires mailed to property owners, eight were returned to the

town. Of the eight responses, five favored sewer system connections and three

did not.

Also, WPCA member Tim Lachapelle asked that the town's health department

conduct a survey of property owners on Edmond Road to learn whether they want

to be included in the sewer district.

Union Camp Corp of 1 Edmond Road, a corrugated container manufacturer, has

asked to be included in the sewer district.

Another major facility in that area is Pitney-Bowes Distribution Center at 7

Edmond Road.

The town is under a state pollution abatement order to rectify longstanding

groundwater pollution problems caused by failing septic systems. To do so, it

is building a sewer system to serve the Borough, Sandy Hook Center and Taunton

Pond North.