Politics & Government
Turkey Farm Waste Water Wastes More Time
July 18 with the DEP has been scheduled to address the issue.
Those who were hoping the next report on the Turkey Farm property was going to move the process forward were disappointed when Chester Borough Mayor Bob Davis said another problem arose in committee, — waste water.
“The committee had a meeting, and the main focus has turned to what’s possible based on waste water,” Davis said last week. “That was an issue from the very beginning and right now it continues as the issue.”
According to Davis, whenever the Turkey Farm subcommittee makes a recommendation, the issue of what to do with waste becomes an obstacle.
“[I]f we don’t have a place to put the waste water, you’re not going to get built what you want to build,” he said.
Besides conversations with pharmacy and bank representatives, the committee has been speaking with is Mitchell Berlant, a business associate of restaurant owner Frank Cretella, who handles real estate matters for Cretella.
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Davis said there is an interest in putting a restaurant/catering facility on the western part of the site.
Cretella also owns the Ryland Inn in Whitehouse Station, Liberty House in Jersey City, and Celebrate at Snug Harbor in Staten Island.But the issue of the waste water will have to be resolved before the process can move forward.
According to Davis there is a July 18 meeting scheduled between the engineers of the project and the DEP, and the subcommittee can attend if the members so desire, to sort the issue out.
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Davis said hopes to make ground and move beyond the waste water problem at that time.
Davis appointed a subcommittee on April 16 in order to speed along the decision-making process after hearing much input from the public on the fate of the turkey farm site.The subcommittee consists of Davis, borough attorney Brian Mason, Council President Tim Iversen, Councilman Matt Finney, and planners Frank and David Banisch.
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