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Delaware's Cape Region • Friday, April 14 - Thursday, April 20, 2000 • www.capegazeffe.com • Volume 7 No. 47
Forums on inland bays are picking up steam
Public debates prickly
environmental future
By Michael Short
What will people do to protect the inland
bays.*
Turnout has been scant at a series of pub-
lic meetings this year to determine what
people think needs to be done to protect the
inland bays.
But that dialogue seemed to finally hit
the ground running at a meeting in Lewes
on Tuesday, April 11. Some 20 people
debated higher taxes, limits on fertilizing
lawns and other ideas in a meeting that last-
ed well over two hours.
The debate is hardly an academic exer-
cise. Delaware is faced with meeting
mandatory pollution reduction plans to cut
the nitrogen and phosphorus in the inland
bays by 60 to 80 percent in some instances.
Those are massive cuts and it could
impact everyone. One requirement of the
Total Maximum Daily Load limits is elimi-
nating all point source discharges like sew-
er plants. But requirements of the TMDLs,
mandated by a lawsuit brought by the
American Littoral Society and Sierra Club
against the EPA, could also include limits
on Joe Average, like limits on applying
lawn fertilizer and pesticides or requiring
upgraded sewer systems.
"Scratch and sniff is mild," said meeting
facilitator Bill McGowan, referring to the
name of a booklet inserted in local newspa-
pers to try to attract people to the meetings.
"We could have said, if you don't come
Continued on page 19
Cape Henlopen State Park
ready to unveil new entrance
Narrow road raises
questions of fire safety
By Michael Short
By Memorial Day, the entrance to Cape
Henlopen State Park will be completely
different.
The state is in the midst of a major
upgrade to the entrance in an effort to elim-
inate long backups on Cape Henlopen Dri-
ve, and to beautify an entrance that has long
been regarded as the ugliest part of the
park.
While the facelift will accomplish much,
there are concerns that some of the roads
may not be wide enough for firefighting
apparatus. Lewes Fire Department Chief
Walt Reynolds said that he is meeting with
park Superintendent Pat Cooper Friday,
April 14, to discuss the issue.
Reynolds confirmed that he took a piece
of fire fighting equipment to the park
recently and that the pavement was not
wide enough for the equipment to stay on
the blacktop when it made turns.
Reynolds said that the entrance work was
not done yet and that he does not have the
full details of what the park entrance will
look like when complete. "I'm not going to
say it's going to work or not work," he said
Thursday, April 13.
Delaware State Parks Director Charles
Salkin said that one of the advantages of
the newly revamped entrance is that it
should greatly increase access to the park
for emergency vehicles. "We are not aware
it is a problem. If there anything that needs
to be done, we will do it," Salkin said.
Salkin said the $800,000 facelift will be
primarily complete by Memorial Day. He
Continued on page 15
In Sussex County, 2000 census
really does count for the future
By Rosanne Pack
"The less questionnaires come in, the
less money you receive." It's as simple as
that, said Paul Roche, and Sussex County
officials are starting to worry about the per-
centage of southern Delawareans who have
not completed and turned in their census
forms.
Roche, a partnership specialist for the
U.S. Census Bureau, said that virtually
every community and every individual is
effected by the percentage of returned cen-
sus forms. He said as a partnership special-
ist, his job includes networking with cham-
bers of commerce and civic organizations
such as the NAACP, AARP and senior cen-
ters.
"The amount of money that is allocated
by the federal government to dribble down
to our communities is determined by the
census count," Roche said. "If we are
undercounted because we don't get a high
enough percentage of responses, entire
communities will suffer."
In the 1990 census, many areas were sig-
nificantly undercounted because not
enough census forms were returned.
Lynn Rogers, president of Sussex Coun-
ty Council said: "We literally depend upon
it. The more accurate the count and the
information is, the more funding we are eli-
Continued on page 12
Mike Hodgson of A.P. Croll works
on the new entrance for Cape Hen-
lopen State Park. The new entrance
Michael Short photo
is intended to be safer and more
attractive, providing a better traffic
pattern for the hugely popular park.
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