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Hotel Booking Builders who earlier this week rallied for an end to a ban on new water service in Atlantic County growth towns now claim the state isn't doing enough to protect water supplies.

Travel Agency The New Jersey Builders Association said Wednesday it will sue the state unless it adds Atlantic City and its casinos to a 5-week-old ban on new water hookups that now is limited to Egg Harbor, Galloway and Hamilton townships.

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Cheap Hotel The builders association claims the state Department of Environmental Protection, or DEP, is failing to protect the region's water supplies by allowing new and expanded casinos to take millions of gallons of water daily from the same aquifer system that the governor claims is threatened by drought and overdevelopment.

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Flight Booking Patrick O'Keefe, chief executive officer of the builders association, said he is unconvinced there is a water-supply problem in the region, "but the DEP says there is one, so they should enforce it evenly."

Travel Agent O'Keefe claims the DEP is turning a blind eye as the Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority, or ACMUA, pumps water from the region's aquifer to certain "unpermitted" Atlantic City casinos, including the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.

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Hotel Chicago O'Keefe would not say exactly what permits the casinos are lacking.

Online Booking New and expanding casinos are the source of any water-supply woes, not new homes, he said.

Travel Health Insurance "If the problem is because the DEP is playing Arthur Andersen to the ACMUA's Enron, then we need to know that phony bookkeeping is hiding the true cause of the water emergency," O'Keefe said.

Hotel Reservation Gov. James E. McGreevey on Sept. 22 invoked his powers under the statewide drought emergency to prohibit water service to new developments in Egg Harbor, Galloway and Hamilton townships.

London Hotel Booking He declared their increasing water consumption a threat to the region's water supplies. The DEP subsequently amended the order to exempt partially built developments.

Discount Travel If the DEP does not enforce the governor's order in Atlantic City within 30 days, the 1,660-member association will sue to protect the region's water supplies, according to a notice the association sent Tuesday to the DEP, Atlantic City, and the ACMUA.

Orlando Hotel The notice cites the state Environmental Rights Act, which gives private parties the power to enforce environmental laws.

Booking Agency DEP Commissioner Bradley M. Campbell said the builders' threatened suit gets high marks for creativity, but low marks for consistency, noting that hundreds of builders at a Statehouse rally this week asked the DEP to end the water-service moratorium.

International Travel Medical "It seems quite cynical to me that on Monday the builders are marching in Trenton, asserting we are doing too much to protect water supplies, and just a few days later they are filing suit asserting we are not doing enough to protect water supplies," Campbell said.

New York Hotel He said he would be willing to consider broadening water restrictions, but casino developments in Atlantic City likely would fall under the blanket exemption given to partly built developments.

Online Travel Booking Campbell said he met with builders groups last week in an effort to resolve their concerns.

Travel Medical Insurance "We are disappointed that rather than working on appropriate exemptions for aggrieved builders, they chose this way," he said.

Miami Hotel The Atlantic County growth communities - and most other public and private wells in the region - get drinking water from the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system.

Air Deccan Booking That goes for nine Egg Harbor Township wells that supply Atlantic City with 80 percent to 88 percent of its water, said Neil Goldfine, executive director of the ACMUA.

Las Vegas Nevada Travel He said the utility's peak demand last summer was just less than 18 million gallons a day.

Las Vegas Nv Hotel This included as much as 4 million gallons a day the utility sells to the New Jersey-American Water Co. to meet demand in a number of mainland communities, including Egg Harbor and Galloway townships, Goldfine added.

Hotel Florence Booking Online Goldfine declined comment on the threatened suit, but said the utility's peak demand is expected to increase another 1 million gallons a day next summer when the Borgata opens.

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Hilton Hotel By Jack Kaskey
The Press of Atlantic City - 10/31/2002

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