Letter to the Editor: Be Careful What You Vote For on the Sewer Project

To the Editor:

Chairman Cinami would like us to believe that the sewer project is ‘affordable.’ Even DEEP has stopped saying that. Cinami’s definition of an “EDU’ or ‘ betterment’ may not stand up under statute 7-249, which was designed to protect property owners from this exact situation. Case law to date has sided with the property owner.   

Contrary to what the Chairman writes, the state has a hard stop on what it will fund and it is not 50% of this $80 million project.  

Those state funds are your tax dollars. 

The town only has an administrative order to do something and we will! Just not this unaffordable sewer system.  DEEP has never penalized or fined a town that chose to ignore a consent order and to adopt alternative solutions. Never. 

There are lots of healthy people in SoundView/Area B that drink well water every day. And you can see for yourself that there is no line of ambulances posed on the corner to rush them away.  

If this project does move forward as Cinami and the leaders of the private beach associations hope, in the end the private beach associations will have 3 votes – the town 1 vote – in determining who, when and at what cost this project will expand.  There is a lot of built in excess capacity. 

The town will not have control of growth – something I’ve seen this town fight vehemently against. 

Be careful what you vote for. 

Sincerely,

Editor’s Note: Daley is a member of the Water Pollution Control Authority.