Egg Harbor Township stopped tallying fines against Magic Disposal, a waste hauler that operated illegal solid waste facilities, after they reached $4.3 million with no hope of being paid.
“We could get a judgment against him that says he owes us X dollars, but the odds of us ever seeing a dollar of it is pretty slim,” said Township Administrator Peter Miller, noting that a drawn-out legal battle is likely a losing proposition.
But owner Steven Waszen Sr. may soon have his day in court.
Atlantic
County continued pursuing the waste hauler, securing a $500-per-day
fine last month in connection with Waszen’s Tremont Avenue site. The
same court order required Waszen to remove hazardous asbestos and other
waste material from the facility within 30 days, something county
officials say still hasn’t been done.
The
matter will go before the court again Wednesday, according to court
records, at which time Superior Court Judge Julio Mendez could consider
“ordering the defendant to be incarcerated as a consequence of contempt
of court.”
Entire long article at
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/communities/eht/atlantic-county-headed-to-court-again-with-egg-harbor-township/article_9abbcaca-1b81-11e4-86ea-001a4bcf887a.html
Read the article and see what Egg Harbor Township has been going through with Waszen. Mullica Township could be in the same predicament today if Waszen's Rail Transfer Station wasn't stopped on the Pike. The community came together at a critical time and we avoided a disaster.
Update
Waszen faces jail time http://gadfly01.blogspot.com/2014/08/waszen-has-30-days-before-arrest.html
Entire long article at
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/communities/eht/atlantic-county-headed-to-court-again-with-egg-harbor-township/article_9abbcaca-1b81-11e4-86ea-001a4bcf887a.html
Read the article and see what Egg Harbor Township has been going through with Waszen. Mullica Township could be in the same predicament today if Waszen's Rail Transfer Station wasn't stopped on the Pike. The community came together at a critical time and we avoided a disaster.
Update
Waszen faces jail time http://gadfly01.blogspot.com/2014/08/waszen-has-30-days-before-arrest.html
13 comments:
"Levinson said the county has generally tried to avoid going to court because of the cost..."
Fill in the blanks.
Levinson and the Repub.County Machine would have loved to see Mullica as their answer to Atlantic City's garbage problems.
Mullica was being sold down the river by this bunch of politicians.
We must always remain vigilant because the County will try to drop undesirable projects into our community.
The property has already been selected for a water sewerage treatment plant that the community doesn't need or want. But that won' t stop them. They don't care.
I have to believe that this goes up higher in the political food chain than the County. Isn't there a family in the hauling business, like Waszen is, whose brother is our current U.S. Congressman?
Look at all the millions of dollars that Hammonton has spent on sewage problems.
Look up that article about how much money it will cost for water and sewage in the next 5 years.
That property was the site of the horrific tire fire and had tons of pollution. Are our wonderful politicians going to suggest that that drinking water be supplied to Elwood from that site?
I understand that a few septics in Wharton Park might be failing. Those people should be given low cost government loans to fix their problems.
The people of Elwood do not want sewage. The people of Mullica don't want to spend millions on this ridiculous project to benefit the private Devonshire Inn and other development on the Pike.
Obviously, the water would come from some other site in the township, which would require the creation of a Mullica Township Water Department and the construction of a water tower and treatment facility. The Waszen site would be treating The resulting sewerage and discharging the effluent into the aquifer.
3:46 pm
They are using that lame excuse about Wharton Park to BS people. Sewage on the Pike is all about bringing in development and making money for a few select people at our expense.
There's 42 acres on the Pike zoned for 1 acre homes plus a lot of other empty land.
We don't need a couple hundred more children in our small school.
Non-Profits don't pay taxes and the few businesses that may set up on the Pike will never pay taxes high enough to cover school additions,more teachers,more police,water dept. employees, and payments on multi-million dollar bonds.
Mullica is a rare rural town in N.J. and should be kept that way.
When the "No Sewer In Mullica" signs come out, I will be among the first to buy a few.
I really don't think I'll see sewers in Mullica during my lifetime. There's no money for such an undertaking.
Last year, Mayor Brown requested $60,000 or $100,000 from the Pinelands Commission to do a feasibility study on building a sewage treatment plant in Elwood.
Does anyone really know what's been going on behind the scenes for a year?
Are all the ducks being put in a row? Has the idea been scrapped?
We,the taxpayers,are always kept in the dark like Mullica mushrooms.
If the poor water quality of the drinking water in Wharton Park is from Radon and/or the Nitrates plume from the Amatol tract across the street, sewerage will not resolve these issues. Individual home owners need to have their household water treated if this is the case. Sewers are only advisable if there is fecal matter in the community's drinking water. This hasn't been determined yet.
One way to insure that Mullica doesn't get the sewers that it doesn't need or want is for voters to throw out all the incumbents and only vote for those challengers who pledge to oppose this plan. But that won't happen. When Joe Silipena, the County Freeholder Chair, came out in support of the dump, a person who was already intending to sublease some of the site from the railroad for his American Recyling operation, he still received the majority of votes in Mullica, at the same time that the majority of Mullica's households were actively fighting it.
8:12 am
You're right, it won't happen.
The majority of the voters who show up at the polls vote party line regardless of issues or people running. People who sit home deserve what they get and that includes sewers and all the high water bills they'll be forced to pay plus the higher taxes.
The rest of us will be paying for all the things 6:31pm mentioned forever.
Mullica could also look at a community septic system,in effect a large septic field on common land to service Wharton Park.
It’s a more efficient and well-regulated system than individual septic fields for each house. And they don’t incur the costs and operating expenses of a treatment plant.
Wharton Park could share the cost among their own neighborhood.
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