Seek Help from the Freeholders on Sewering Issue, Resident tells Mayor

The following letter was written by resident Anthony Cooper and given to Holmdel Patch for publication by Cooper. 

To Holmdel Mayor Patrick Impreveduto,

It is time for Holmdel's Township Committee to take
 official action defending Holmdel against the drastic Sewer 
Service Area (SSA) changes recently proposed by the NJ
 Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP).  

I urge 
you to take official Holmdel Township action at the next 
(May 26) meeting of Monmouth County's Board of Chosen
 Freeholders -- please demand that Holmdel be explicitly
 excepted from any approval which the Freeholders might
otherwise give to the newly revised SSA proposed by the 
NJDEP in early May.  

If you as Mayor or another 
Township Committee Member cannot be personally present to do 
this at their May 26 meeting, then please authorize the
 Township's Administrator (Ray Wilson), Township Clerk
 (Maureen Doloughty), or some other Township Official to
 attend this meeting and deliver this message to the County 
Freeholders.

NJDEP's newly revised SSA would allow sewers in the entire
 472-acre Bell Labs/Lucent tract and in the entire 330-plus
 acre Garden State Arts Center tract.

By contrast,
 Holmdel has for years limited sewers in those two tracts to 
only the footprints of their currently existing 
buildings.

If Holmdel Township does not promptly take
 official action at the County level to except Holmdel
 out of NJDEP's newly proposed SSA, the ultimate result 
may well be nearly unlimited development on these two tracts,
 and eventually on most other portions of Holmdel's south slope.

Thank you, 

C. Anthony Cooper, Ph.D.

Holmdel