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Delaware's Cape Region
Friday, February 3 - Thursday, February 9, 1995
Volume 2, No. 37
Lewes adds fourth candidate to
police chief fist; Barber lawyer
sends letter seeking justice
By Dennis Forney
The City of Lewes moved for-
ward this week in its process to
hire a new police chief by adding a
fourth candidate to the list of can-
didates to be interviewed and by
setting a Tuesday, Feb. 21 date to
begin those interviews.
Mayor George Smith said he
recommended to council members
at their special meeting on Jan. 31
that a fourth candidate be added to
the list of candidates to be inter-
viewed that was presented by the
police chief applicants' screening
committee.
"I felt there was a fourth,
deserving candidate and none of
the council members had any
objection to adding his name to
the list of ones we will interview."
Smith declined to identify the
fourth candidate or the other three
who were recommended for inter-
views by the committee. He said
he still sees council members
approving the hiring of a new
chief of police by the Monday,
March 13, 1995 meeting.
This motion comes on the heels
of a letter from former Lewes
Police Chief Hall Barber's attor-
ney, dated Jan. 23, 1995, indicat-
ing Barber still wants his case to
be heard.
And in further police matters,
Lewes has written letters to legis-
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Canby addresses Sussex
transportation issues
By Denise M. Marshall
Addressing transportation
issues in Sussex County,
Delaware Department of Trans-
portation (DeIDOT) Secretary
Anne P. Canby said she plans to
appoint a representative of the
highway department as a non-vot-
ing member of the Sussex Plan-
ning and Zoning Commission.
About 60 people turned out
Tuesday (Jan. 31) to hear Canby
speak at the Virden Center in
Lewes. Her appearance was part
of the Southern Delaware Acade-
my of Lifelong Learning's Win-
'ted m.program. ".
Delaware statute already pro-
vides for a representative of Del-
DOT, as well as other state agen-
cies, to serve as a non-voting
member of the county's Planning
and Zoning Commission. Howev-
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Angle Moon photo
A brief dusting of snow makes for moments of fun
A picture postcard perfect snow fell for three hours Saturday night, leaving one to three
inches in some places in the Cape region. By mid-day Sunday, most of it had disappeared.
Taking advantage of the fleeting white stuff are Everette Burton (left), age 11, of Rehoboth
Beach, and Dominique Hack, age 13, also of Rehoboth, who try to get the better of each other
during a classic snowball fight.
Outlets, Kmart installing stormwater pollution prevention systems
By Dennis Forney
Thousands of motorists have
watched curiously this winter as
workers have installed an exten-
sive system of huge, corrugated
metal pipes at a property along Rt.
1. The pipes are being installed
beneath the surface of the parking
lot for the new Rehoboth Beach
Outlets being built by the Fisher
Company.
They constitute an important
part of a sophisticated stormwater
run-off system designed to protect
our creeks and inland bays from
pollution caused by development
of farmland.
In the case of the Fisher outlets,
the huge pipes will function as
part of an underground storage
system to slow the flow of run-off
from the parking lot.
Pot Hook Creek and Holland
Glade feed the Lewes and
Rehoboth Canal and, eventually,
Delaware's Inland Bays and the
Delaware Bay.
When rains and snows sweep
the area along Rt. 1 between Five
Points and the entrance to
Rehoboth Beach, their run-off -
and everything it carries - makes
its way to Pot Hook and Holland.
With huge expanses of asphalt
being laid down to create parking
lots for Kmart, the Fisher compa-
ny's Rehoboth Beach Outlets, and
the expansion of the Ocean Out-
lets, the potential for heavy levels
of oils, greases, tire rub-offs and
other harmful substances to pol-
lute our waterways grows.
To curb those problems related
to development, the Sussex Con-
servation District requires con-
struction of stormwater and sedi-
ment control systems.
"We require that post-construc-
tion run-off from a development
site not exceed pre-construction
run-off," said John Barwick this
week. Barwick is a conservation-
ist involved in sediment control
and stormwater management for
the federally funded Sussex Con-
servation District.
"We're not always popular
when we come on to a site. Our
job is to keep pollution and sedi-
ment out of our waterways. We
don't want people crabbing and
fishing to be affected by problems
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Workers at the Fisher Out-
let site install four foot diam-
eter pipes to drain and to
store stormwater.
