Env. Commission reviews signage plans for Smith tract
Page 4 • Wednesday, November 20, 2013 • The Hammonton Gazette
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Bachalis informed the environmental Commission on what occurred during the last
town council meeting. Bachalis stated that
Hammonton received notice of recertification
as a sustainable community by Sustainable
Jersey at the bronze level.
“there is one final opportunity to submit
revised, additional material [in regards to recertification for Sustainable Jersey] on December 1 and we like to take advantage of
that opportunity. We are five points short of
the silver level recertification. Currently,
there are 137 towns that are certified and only
20 are certified at the silver level. So, we’d
like to get that last little bit, submit that and
hopefully get recertification around the beginning of the New Year. Bronze recertification is really good and there are a lot of things
on the books and points that don’t expire, and
other things that will be a lot easier to renew
next year,” Bachalis said.
in the event of a large countywide disaster,
the Hammonton School District signed an
agreement with the county to allow the
county to utilize one of the high school gyms,
office space, cafeteria and middle school
gym, according to Bachalis. this news also
came from the latest town council meeting.
“the county also wants the town to sign an
agreement to provide support for that effort.
We have a meeting with the county emergency management folks, and it seems like it
is something we will eventually sign but we
want to make sure the details are locked
down,” Bachalis said.
in the Great egg Harbor river
Council report, board member Chris
Jage provided the latest information
from that particular board meeting.
Jage talked about changes in the wild
and scenic river and park services.
“Because of some budget tightening at the federal level, our wild and
scenic river is a subset of the wild
and scenic system called the partnership and that is why we have somebody sitting on it. it is managed
locally by local people. Mostly in the
northeast this happens, and it looks
like the parks service is trying to dissolve that and take the little bit of
money that actually comes to the
local river managers and bring it into
the park service essentially,” Jage
said.
During the Hammonton Lake
Water Quality meeting on November
12, chairman robert reitmeyer informed the board about the dam
leakage situation and said the problem continues to be assessed. also,
copies of the lake testing results are
available, which occurred in the
summer.
“One of the situations that we
have looked into is apparently the
dam is leaking again, and DOt [Department of transportation] went out
to assess it and i guess they are still
in the assessment stage. there has
been no repairs made that we know
of. We do have the electronic copies
of all the lake testing results that took
place during the summer. John
Scianni, the chairman of that committee, has that information and he is
going to get that out to more folks to
look at it,” reitmeyer said.
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