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Rehoboth proceeds With sewer plant upgrade, OKs fund borrowing
By Trish Vernon
The City of Rehoboth Beach
awarded a $2.1 million contract
April 1 to Barbella Environmental
Technology of New Jersey to up-
grade the city's wastewater treat-
ment plant, as well as agreed to
borrow the necessary funds, up to
$2 million, from Mellon Bank at a
fixed rate of 4.996 pement for sev-
en years. They expect to have to
borrow $1.3 million.
Sussex County will reimburse
the city for 44 percent of the cost
of the project, as the plant services
Dewey Beach and Henlopen
Acres as well, with the city's cost
Topless
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someone erected a sign there re-
ferring to Norfolk as a "nude"
beach, a sign they state conveys
the wrong message. "The word
'nude' is an inaccurate labeling of
a woman who removes her top.
Women who do this are truly no
more 'nude' that men who ordi-
narily do the same. But exposing
private body parts below the belt
is not an acceptable thing to do
and we are opposed to public nu-
dity ."
They close by requesting that
the letter be posted and distributed
and even placed on the Internet.
being approximately $1,270,000
and the county's being $999,000.
Under a 1994 Department of
Natural Resources and Environ-
mental Control (DNREC) consent
order, the city agreed to take mea-
sures to upgrade the plant in ef-
forts to decrease the amount of ni-
trogen and phosphorus being re-
leased into the Lewes-Rehoboth
Canal.
The city authorized the engi-
neering firm of Steams and Whel-
er to prepare plans and specifica-
tions, and the project was put on
to bid. However, bids which came
in late last year were extremely
Having read the letter, both Re-
hoboth Mayor Sam Cooper and
City Manager Greg Ferrese con-
curred that they have no plans to
allow women to bare their breasts
on the beach south of Queen
Street. "If they attempt to violate
city ordinances, the police will ad-
dress it and we have no intention
of doing a survey," Ferrese said.
"Bare breasts will upset.a lot of
people - if they want to sunbathe
topless they can do it in their
backyards."
Cooper added that he couldn't
support having laws in effect in
one area and not another area of
the city. "It would be unfair to the
people in that area," he said, not-
ing that the letter does sound legit-
imate.
high, as the city expected to bor-
row low interest loans from-the
state and therefore the work
would have to be done under state
wage rates.
Rehoboth officials decided to
hire Hal Sammons of Potter, An-
derson and Coroon, who negotiat-
ed with the banks and came up
with the best interest rate and
terms from Mellon, (The city will
pay interest only the first two
years, while it is paying off the
bond bill from the treatment plant
construction, and then pay princi-
ple and interest for the next five
years.)
A request for bids was once
again pu t out at non-state wage
rates, and the city found that upon
opening the new bids, that the
lowest state wage bid was
$132,000 higher than the non-
state wage bid.
Rip Copithom with Steams and
Wheler explained to the board
April 1 what the project will en-
tail. 'q'otal removal" of nitrogen
and phosphorus by the year 2000
is the goal in statewide efforts to
clean up the Inland Bays, Cop-
ithorn said, noting that they will
replace the ultraviolet system with
a chemical method of eliminating
bacteria, installing holding tanks
so that there is no residual chlo-
ride being released into the canal.
He said that they are also going
to take a holding tank at the site
and convert it to a sludge holding other issue, Copithorn said, is to
tank, to prevent the possibility of improve sludge removal, with is
permit violations if there too high Phase III of the project.
a sludge build up before land ap- The project is expected to take
plication can be carried out. The 18 months to complete.
Sussex man suggests private
east-west bus transportation
By Michael Short
Vernon Grice is convinced that
more bus service would mean
lower unemployment in Sussex
County.
He pitched a plan to Sussex
County Council on March 26
which would allow him to provide
transportation from western to
central Sussex County. The pro-
posed routes would link western
Sussex County with Delaware De-
partment of Transportation(Del-
DOT) routes from Georgetown
east and in some cases, would take
riders all the way to the beach.
The lack of transportation is of-
ten cited in Sussex and Grice was
quick to say that he thinks the bus
service would be a public service.
"You have an awful lot of peo-
ple sitting idle because they have
no public transportation," Grice
said. Grice said, however, that he
can't charge low enough rates to
make the service attractive with-
out some sort of subsidy. He
asked County Council to intercede
for him and see if there was some
type of funding available, perhaps
from Delaware's Department of
Transportation.
County Council agreed to sug-
gest that DelDOT consider the
proposal. Grice said he hopes to
meet soon with the Rehoboth
Beach-Dewey Beach Chamber of
Commerce to discuss the idea.
Grice has two vans and four mi-
ni-vans which would be used for
the route. He proposed to provide
bus service up and down Rt. 13
and Rt. 113 with a transfer point
from Seaford to the Georgetown
area. Grice operates ESI Trans-
portation, which is short for Effi-
cient Services Inc. He said that in
the early morning, he might be
willing to take people as far east
as the Park and Ride Lot outside
Rehoboth Beach.
That would not be a regular
route during the rest of the day,
but it could help people get to
work on time, he said. That's be-
cause the DelDOT service may
not begin early enough for early
morning commuters.
It's Time For a Change
Vote For Judson Bennett
for
Lewes Board Of Public Works
¢c
This Saturday, April 6, 1996
A recent poll indicates that Judson Bennett has come from behind and has
moved ahead of his opponents, Hill and McClain. A change is in the wind!
Judson Bennett has been knocking on doors and talking to the citizens of
Lewes. Streets, lights, sewer, and water are all issues!
Judson Bennett will keep the utility rates in Lewes down!
Judson Bennett will treat all the tax payers of Lewes equally!
Judson Bennett Will Do What Is Right For All The Tax Payers Of Lewes!
YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT!
ELECT JUDSON BENNETT TO THE LEWES BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS THIS SATURDAY APRIL 6TH.
Paid for by Citizens For Judson Bennett.
