Kramer Beverage comes before Env. Commission
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 • The Hammonton Gazette • Page 3
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firm, and Project engineer/Plan-
ner David Scheidegg, of Schaeffer
Nassar Scheidegg Consulting en-
gineers. Kramer Beverage Com-
pany recently received approval
from the Hammonton Planning
Board on June 20 for a subdivi-
sion in relation to a land swap it
completed with the town, which
will consolidate Lot 46 and 54 of
Block 1201 on the town tax map
into a lot that will be known as Lot
46, and subdivide a portion of
Lots 44 and 45 that will be owned
by the town in accordance with
the terms of the land swap.
Bucknam said Kramer Bever-
age Company is waiting to receive
a certificate of filing from the
Pinelands Commission for the
plan so it can apply for a prelimi-
nary and final site plan approval,
which is tentatively scheduled to
be heard during the planning
board’s next meeting on Wednes-
day, October 17.
Once it receives all necessary
approvals and constructs the ex-
pansion, Bucknam said Kramer
Beverage Company is planning to
consolidate all of its current oper-
ations to Hammonton, where the
company has had a presence since
it relocated operations from egg
Harbor Twp. in 2002. Kramer
Beverage Company will eventu-
ally end leases with its current dis-
tribution warehouse locations in
Winslow Twp. and Lawrence
Twp. before relocating those op-
erations and their pre-existing jobs
to Hammonton.
“it’s a significant situation for
the town. as a resident of the
town, we’re very happy to see it.
Kramer could’ve gone in the op-
posite direction and reconsoli-
dated in one of those other towns,
but they’re here,” Bucknam said.
Kramer, Bucknam and Schei-
degg collectively explained the
environmental issues and details
that are listed throughout the eiS.
To improve energy efficiency,
Kramer said Hammonton’s exist-
ing warehouse location recently
switched to LeD lighting and will
soon be doing the same to its ex-
terior lighting fixtures. He also
said the company is planning to
install approximately 100,000
square feet of solar panels to the
roof of the expanded facilities
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after they’re constructed.
Bucknam said the expansion is
proposed to take place in two
phases. Phase i would take place
immediately upon final approval
and would include the construc-
tion of a 175-space parking area
for the additional employee vehi-
cle traffic the facility will experi-
ence after the expansion. Phase i
would also include a new en-
tranceway for trucks to enter the
facility between Commerce Way
and 11th Street, which is near the
proposed location of a 100-space
truck parking and storage area.
Storm water management
amenities for the entire site would
also be constructed during Phase
i, according to Bucknam.
all work associated with Phase
ii will focus on the area immedi-
ately to the right of the facility. al-
though there is no estimated date
for this work to begin, Bucknam
said Phase ii will include the con-
struction of a six-bay vehicle
maintenance facility, a truck
washing facility and a truck fuel-
ing area with additional storage
spaces for trucks undergoing serv-
ice and maintenance.
Bucknam said the eiS should
address all possible environmental
concerns the commission could
have had regarding the Kramer
Beverage Company expansion.
“We tried to cover all the rele-
vant environmental issues that this
commission would typically be
concerned about. This is obvi-
ously a site that has received a lot
of scrutiny over the years from
Pinelands, the town and others in
light of how we got here today,”
Bucknam said.
a motion to accept Kramer
Beverage Company’s environ-
mental impact statement as com-
plete and deem it appropriate for
the planning board to proceed
with the matter was made by com-
mission member Dr. Michael
Hozik, seconded by commission
member Terri Caruso-Cafiso and
passed unanimously.
Commission chairman Daniel
Bachalis commended Bucknam,
Scheidegg and Kramer for their
detailed presentation on the envi-
ronmental factors of the plan.
“Kudos on the excellent site
plan and detail sheets. Your atten-
tion to environmentally-sensitive
planning and implementation is
beyond anything that i think
we’ve ever seen here at the com-
mission,” Bachalis said.
in other news, commission
member amy Menzel announced
that the town received a $17,000
grant for a pot-in-pot tree bank
that is projected to grow 111 pot-
ted trees at the town’s treated ef-
fluent land application site within
the Boyer avenue recreation
complex.
“it’s really good. i hate to make
a pun, but that is really ground-
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