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A1582
ASSEMBLY, No. 1582
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman SEAN T. KEAN
District 30 (Monmouth and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
���� Makes supplemental appropriation of $2.125 million to
Howell Township in Monmouth County for drinking water infrastructure project.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.
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A
Supplement
to "An Act making
appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public
purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017 and regulating the
disbursement thereof," approved June 30, 2016 (P.L.2016, c.10).
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Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and the General Assembly
of the State of New Jersey:
���� 1.��� In addition to the
amounts appropriated under P.L.2016, c.10, there is appropriated out of
the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:
42 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
40 Community Development and
Environmental Management
43 Science and Technical Programs
STATE AID
05-4840 Water Supply Management
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$2,125,000
Total State Aid Appropriation,�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������
$2,125,000
� ����Water Supply
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State Aid
:
05��� Howell Twp Drinking Water Service Ext.
($2,125,000)
���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.
STATEMENT
���� This bill would appropriate
$2.125 million from the General Fund to Howell Township in Monmouth County to
help pay for the extension of drinking water pipes to the oldest and most
economically stressed neighborhood in the township.
���� Howell Township is currently
pursuing the final stages of approval by the Department of Environmental
Protection for the construction of about 8.5 miles of sanitary sewer mains
throughout the Freewood Acres neighborhood and along State Route 9.� These sewer
mains are needed to replace many failing septic systems in the area that are
polluting the most highly contaminated watershed sub-basin in the watershed of
the North Branch of the Metedeconk River.� It is hoped that the sewer project
will be paid for with the assistance of low interest loans provided by the New
Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust.� In order to install these sewers,
however, it will be necessary to dig up the roads in the area.� Because the
drinking water for many of the residential lots in the Freewood Acres
neighborhood is currently supplied by old, uncased shallow groundwater wells in
an area with a very high groundwater table, it would be protective of the
public health and safety, environmentally beneficial, and an efficient use of
resources to install water mains to the area at the same time as the sewer
mains are being installed.� Unfortunately, the financial cost to the township
to partner with New Jersey American Water (the water purveyor for most of
Howell Township) to extend water mains to the Freewood Acres neighborhood is
beyond the financial means of the municipality (and, reportedly, further
contribution to the project from New Jersey American Water is limited by
regulatory requirements of the Board of Public Utilities).� Consequently, this
bill is necessary to ensure that this important public infrastructure project
can proceed.