Allenhurst to Discuss Providing Police Services to Loch Arbour
By GARRETT STASSE
Allenhurst officials said they are interested in providing police services to neighboring Loch Arbour and will pitch a proposal to the village next week.
Interlaken is also interested in the contract, Allenhurst officials said late last year.
Currently, police services to Loch Arbour are provided by Ocean Township. The 10-year pact is due to expire next year, Borough Commissioner David McLaughlin said on Tuesday.
Allenhurst had provided police service to the village for decades before the township and village struck a deal.
McLaughlin would not detail the boroughs offer but said the meeting would be informal.
Meanwhile, Commissioner Christopher McLoughlin said the borough offered to discuss merging the Allenhurst and Interlaken police departments but Interlaken was cool to the idea. The topic came up several years ago but nothing came of it.
Suit Possible?
The borough has tentatively agreed to lease the beach club restaurant to the owners of Mr. Cs restaurant in Deal but the former tenant is hinting he might sue, McLaughlin said.
Neil West left the option open in a letter to the borough outlining his objections to how the property was let. He had had it for several years and according to the previous commission, had spent to improve the facilities. The commission wanted more rent so it put the property to bid last year. It got three proposals and accepted Mr. Cs.
The rent would be $20,000 a year for five years, with a five-year option. Thats a far cry from when the borough leased it for $1 a year.
The borough is also buying 10 cedar cabanas for the beach club, McLaughlin said. Theyll have running water and electricity and be offered to people on a waiting list that stretches back to 1980. All would be offered to residents first, he said.
Getting in Line
The borough adopted a series of changes to its wastewater management plan to bring it in line with state regulations. From now on, it will be illegal to dump anything but storm water into the system in such a manner as to cause the discharge of pollutants into the municipal separate storm sewer system.
The exceptions are uncontaminated ground water from sumps, foundation or footing drains or rising ground waters or water line flushing and discharges from potable water sources like swimming pools. Also exempt are landscape and lawn watering runoff, flows from springs, car washing and sidewalk, driveway and street wash water.
Penalties are up to $1,000.
The borough is also cracking down on illegal sump connections to the sewerage system. Sump lines are supposed to discharge into the street or property. But some are connected to the sewer system, and their discharge sends water into treatment facilities which raises costs and could during heavy rains overload the system.
McLaughlin said the borough considered running a smoke test, where smoke is forced through the sewers and into buildings with illegal hookups. Instead, inspectors will look at hookups when a property is sold or leased.
The penalty is also up to $1,000.
Continuing the fouling theme, the commission also banned feeding wildlife in public spaces or someone elses property. That includes ducks, Canada geese, pigeons and, should the borough build one, animals in a zoo.
That would be another $1,000 fine.
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