Page 6 • Wednesday, August 7, 2013 • The Hammonton Gazette
The Hammonton Gazette
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An advertisement placed in The Gazette this week by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) discusses a report prepared by town engineer Adams, Rehmann and Heggan (ARH) at the request of the NJDEP. The report is an “alternatives analysis” of the possible options the town has regarding the contamination cleanup in wells number one and three, located at the corner of 12th Street and Lincoln Avenue, under the water tower. ARH prepared the alternatives analysis at the request of the NJDEP, Robert Vettese of ARH told The Gazette. The town discovered toxic ethylene dibromide (EDB) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE) in well number one, as well as EDB in well number three, in 2012. A carbon filtration system has been installed at the site. According to the “alternatives analysis” by ARH, the recommended course of action – one the NJDEP said it also recommends in its advertisement in this week’s Gazette – is the following: “NJDEP recommends the installation of a [sic] an activated carbon treatment system, as the most viable and cost effective measure to remediate Well # 1 and 3 and to provide the town with a safe and reliable water source. This project is estimated to cost approximately $1,041,900.” the NJDEP advertisement said. According to Vettese, the town is applying to NJ Spillfund to pay for the project. Interested residents can review a copy of the entire “alternatives analysis” at the Hammonton Town Clerk’s Office, Town Hall (3rd Floor), 100 Central Avenue or by visiting The Gazette’s website at www.hammontongazette.com. Local attorney Clarence Mattioli lived to the age of 90, and he made the most of those years. Mattioli became an attorney in 1948. From his longtime office on Second Street in the downtown area (he converted the former Hammonton News offices into business offices in 1964) he helped clients for more than 50 years in the same location. In later years, his son Clarence joined him in the firm as his partner. Mattioli’s “sense of hard work and determination was instilled in him by his father, Eli Mattioli, who maintained the family bakery with his brothers in Landisville,” according to his obituary. The bakery was known as Mattioli Brothers Bakery, the obituary said. An amputee as a result of an auto accident at the age of 10, Mattioli “never allowed the tragic event to serve as an impediment to attaining tremendous success in the legal field and in the business community,” his obituary said. He played high school football at Hammonton High School and was an avid hunter, earning him the nickname “Dead Eye Mattioli.” A charismatic man, Mattioli loved the company of family and friends alike. His obit