Okay, let's all stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States. United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
We're going to start the meeting. We're going to start the meeting with a moment of silence in memory of Don Niss who was our Lincoln coordinator former commissioner for years for years and very close
friend of mine and many other people. So, let's let's let's pull a second. Yeah. Don died a couple weeks ago. Can we tell stories? We can't storm any school. when he moved to CB when we were
appointed and the first project we do is taking his brother hilarious at the time I didn't know that he was a great guy very talent sorry I'm late I forgot it was
5:30 that you're we don't take that we taking the item the notice requirements of the open public meetings for this meeting have been met by transmitting the notice of the regular meeting to the commissioner's official newspaper on
February 6, 2025. Posting the notice were required and filing a copy of the notice with the commission code. The dealing commission meeting will be audio video tape that will be shown on APV optimum 77 and ground park.
Yes. Lincoln present. Robber here. Oh, there she we have resolution 2527 resolution for March 20th, 2025.
Second. All in favor? Okay. Tonight we have the treasures report and to pay bills. Margo, you want to read it? Sure. Total on deposit for last month was $72,23028. The total receipts were
$122,162.225. Total dispersements for approval are $3,157.15 and the total balance is $191,000 $191,235.38. Someone move to pay the bills. Move. Second. Second.
Yes. Aspberry Park. Yes. Interver. Yes. Yes. And did everybody notice that we got our check 96? And tonight we have a resolution to
appoint a commission attorney. Do we have an old business section? We're gonna This is new and then we're going to go back to the old business. We want to appoint our attorney and do a few other things and then we're going to go to old business. I I have a question before we do that. Uh when we discussed
the process where we would select our attorney, I asked I think twice on occasion if the DLC would have a closed session to review the credentials of the candidates. Yes. And you were told if there was only one if there was only one proposal, we would go over it. We only
one was received and we're going to go with that person. Okay. Well, I'm sure Paul's a good candidate. I just I was speaking about uh the process I was assured would take place, but you're right. Only if we had more than one. Well, the process would be working with
Dave Brown, right? But we only received one and said, it was more than one we asked. We would have the same thing with the weed treatment. We only had one proposal, so we just went with it. Thank you. You're welcome. So, tonight
we have a resolution to approve appointing Paul Nicola Esquire as the commission attorney for 2025. Who's the Nicola? Oh, okay. Who's that? He's
so he applied. Okay. Sure. Added cost not to exceed $3,000 for the year. So move please offer. I'll second Park.
Alers. Yes. Asbury Park. Yes. Lincoln. Yes. Uh I I'm I think I'm supposed to refrain by saying yes. Absolutely. Thank you. I look forward to working
with you in the next congratulations. Glad to have you. Congratulations on your resume especially the part about the gambling. So, um, I figured we put those on DLA and starting, but thank you.
Congratulations. Congratulations, Paul. Thank you. Do you want to explain? Okay. U Steve. Yes. So Steve and I were were getting tortured in the last couple months with
D on in account and they didn't like what Steve had done for the last 30 years maybe 40 and he we basically had to redo you know a good a good chunk of our
inind submission which was a lot of work and Steve did it um resubmitted it and you the percentage goes down what 1% yeah it wasn't a big but the paperwork and the grant had to be resized now this
was approved a year ago almost a year ago 11 months so now revisiting going back to changing it and this is after the insurance debacle and the whole thing so now the next step is hopefully we vote on this and we approve it um we
will go into the system tomorrow the system. I will sign off on something, Jesse will sign off on piece and we it'll go in review again. Um, but another way and hopefully it gets through, but we you have authorization
to go ahead. We're not being held up. So, as far as I'm you know, full steam ahead with with the grant. It's just a formality of getting signed. Yeah, we also be on the same sh formality to to vote on this. It seems like a lot of money. It's not
money out of pocket. It's 89. It could be out of pocket, but most of it's, you know, our work on commission meetings, cleanups, all the folks that help on the cleanups and various other activities that we do. Clean clean up
clean all the things you listed, volunteers, long list and and also it's going to be there'll be other things popping up. This will be a we kind of trimmed it down. You know, county could get involved, town involved. We got we
definitely have the bordershed alliance is going to help out planning infrastructure. So, yeah, we got a lot of help. It'll be fun project, right? That's it. So, someone please offer the resolution.
I'll get Yes. Asbury Park. Yes. Gerber. Yes. Yes. Thanks for doing the work, Steve, for straightening straightening that out. Fresh car when you first started.
And tonight we're awarding the 2025 2026 herbicide treatment at select areas of De Lake. Again, only one proposal was received. I sent out three and only one was received and it was basically the same as last year, right?
Y comes out to about 6,000 a year. Yeah. So, okay. Okay. Yes. Elders, yes. Asbury Park, yes. Andrew Lincoln, yes.
Yes. Yes. And yes, Steve, does that mean they'll get the permits for us? Yeah. I'm sorry, I didn't hear what you said. They'll get the permits for us. The permit? Yeah. um
LMS I believe they you know it's a two-year permit so their permit still may be in effect but okay it it only takes now with it being online it only takes them about 48 hours to get the I'll send them a copy of the resolution tomorrow so they can get working on it
okay okay thank you no problem you want to go business first well um That's the business. Um, now we go to old business. Any old business we have on? Um,
well, uh, you talk and is there a business right now? We don't have anything. Listen, I have a I have Yeah, go ahead. Are you gonna The one I have is Bruce. We have the geese program going. Um, we have two two house, I
think. D ones. Do we use DL back there? Not Not to me. I dropped them off. Okay. I've got um6003 where I am on Drummond Court. I got it sent over to Nicole today. Oh,
good. I saw the geese too while there. I visited them. Paul the I thought you were going to run by.
No, I'm not around. Oh, okay. There there are some form there is some piece on certain properties but not okay. So, there's one in the propert there there's a bunch of case they found already. I know one one in
high school and there's others. Um she wasn't very specific but she's she's been keeping this. So if you guys see any you see any action of a goose you know swing around an area protecting protecting an area there's probably goose nest you hear that. Yeah I no I can't
hear there's a couple there's a couple nests on the island in sunset in in sunset. Are we treating sunset? No. Don't do it. It has to be go has to go through addition. Oh, okay. Um, the Osprey Park Board of
Education finally sent in their approval. So, I think there is a nest over there that was spotted. So, she'll treat that. Hopefully, they're still there. The eggs are not She's She treated it. Oh, she did. Right. Great. Okay, good. Okay. So, that's that. I
don't want to talk about grand and the the tutor house. They they cooperated for a couple years. So I would expect that they will this year. Remember we sent the the USDA sent letters out to people that hadn't tested
previously. So they could just decide back and we're in good shape. So okay. Um um I wanted the old business went back to school. I did brief the one master school kids had a ball over there. Spent
about 45 minutes with the uh kids going to mass. It was a lot of fun. They asked a lot of questions and we got you know visual visual. and bass selling the lake and and then they came out and in great numbers in the clean up wonderful bought on and down on the eastern end of the
lake western section of the lake they did a wonderful job and it was I was I felt like a rocky one by signature no more it was fun um and the osprey that's something I
think you talked about last request There's Osprey nest. They want to remove the there was a a formal request from the owner of the JCPL building to remove the nest. So they have they're going to the town. I said they were talking to the guy
battled something about putting it in the lake. And I said I don't know if I want to go for that. I mean, I want to be thrilled with that. have an obstacle in place. They were on again poles on a circle, right? And when
that work when that construction was done, but they're looking to put poles up somewhere, not a pool. They're also an Osprey net with the It's being built across the street from the post office. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Anyway, that's that's the two the two burden things that are going on right now. What's going to what's going to happen? Is that our jurisdiction? I gave it to you guys. I gave it to your your your commissioner and you you were on I said deal. So, okay. Deal. It's not
really it's really it's official request between the D to put it some nice um and they're going to take it down after the season's so something's happening in
that I hope um okay that's all I got old business you got any old business I Yeah. Yeah. Um I wanted to um just tell everybody this mainly because it might be something you'd think about that
you'd like to do in your town too if you uh have a website, if the town has a website. Excuse me. I had a meeting with the planning board officers um regarding posting the PDF of our pamphlet, the guide for um DA property owners. They
are looking into including it. We don't know where exactly yet, but they're going to put it on the city website. So, if anybody would like the PDF of this guide, you know, the guide been around this one. I think we have it up online
on it's on our website. Talking about city websites. I I originally talked to them about um again trying to get the the get the um information included in permits and for
construction about contacting the NJ if they're going to be doing any construction or any maintenance on send it out to what send the PDF to everyone. Well, I was there were two things. One
was that the PDF posting and the other one was getting them to put the language um that would tell people to people who are build buying lakefront property to contact the NJD
um before they build or before they do any maintenance and that that would be part of what the permitting people give to anyone who lives on the lakefront. So, we're still working that out as to whether it's going to be included in the permit section of the website or if
they're going to attach a form and have those forms there so when people submit them, they attach it to like staple it to the form so the homeowner knows to do that. And I'm just telling you about that because I think it would be useful
if every town that's capable of doing that would do it. The PDF But they could do a better job. What? Every town could do a better job. That's for sure. Can you hear it? I
Every every town could do a better job. Oh, yeah. So, I'll send the PDF to everybody and then you can take it to your towns if you'd like to. Um the other thing was again called Robert Clark uh yesterday. I left a message on
this Robert Clark from the NJP. um same person we've been trying to get a meeting with. I reminded him that the delay commission's been requesting a meeting with him and his D staff since 2023 uh 2022 rather to discuss enforcement
issues on deal left him that and then well ICE also called business office and left the same message for him there. It's funny you should say that because in the paper today in the postman there's the develop
126 units planned for Memorial Drive in in the city. Well, that particular property is the one that that gouged, you know, was pumping any oil to the lake from their underground storage facility and they did a good job. They
did a good job in baiting it. But oil did come in the lake. oil is sitting on the on the other side of the tracks here um in in they were in it this during the work work day we had storage on one side we had oil on the other so it's
it's embedded in the in the sediment and we really need to have this builder developer address that remediation in the lake and we're only talking a small area over by the railroad tracks and now D when we were going through that sewer
issue and I was talking to the NJ officer that reported for that in he said that's not their thing. They don't do that. I don't know. It's so confusing because there's so many layers. But he said that has to do with remediation. Is
that right, Steve? Do you know who is actually in charge of handling oil in the lake once it's in there? Not once you've reported. We know enforcement comes and does what they do, but who actually it would be remediation. I mean would have to you'd have they'd have to
be like a like a a licensed remediation expert. Um but a case file would have to be opened up at D. I mean D still has Let me stop you guys. Let me stop you guys.
Yeah. Is there is a remediation copy already selected. I have the phone number. What Jeie, if you could do is talk to the planning board or the building, what's the uh what's it being reviewed by the planning board? Talk to the planning board and tell them they
got an issue with oil remediation. We have to what? This is an application before the planning but approval to do nothing to do with remediation. It's the applicant owner. Okay. The applicant
may not be the owner. Jamie, I'm I'm going to contact a contact I have. Yeah. Um that's that's that's supposed to report to report. Steve was saying that. Hasn't that Has it been reported to the D? Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. There's a a file a file
for them for sure. It's it's details. They cleaned up the site. They they cleaned up our treatment device five or six times, but the problem is the oil got leaked into the lake and we don't know what the status of that problem is.
They never came into the lake to to to see what the problems are and apparently was walking it. Yeah. Right. So what that back to the original question I asked Steve. So Steve, what what do we do to get remediation to get
activated? I mean the first thing we have to have Yeah, we have to have that. I'm sorry. Can you help them answer the question? I have to I have to have a timeout. I am taking this. It's already done. I know the person the group that's handling it.
I will give them a call and I'll get the report and I'll talk to the town. The head engineer has a copy of it. For some reason, the deal commission never got a copy of the final report or got in report. So, I will look look that over. I have the paperwork. I have the contact. So, I'll do that. There's a
group that does that. What do you call Steve? What a group is it called? Well, I mean it, you know, it's the it's the remediation uh division of D, but they typically like outsource that to a licensed remedial, you know, expert and
that's an LSRP and yeah. So, I mean, if you have a file number, then you can go into, you know, the DP data minor and then enter that file number and then the and then it'll tell you what the status is, what's going on. I mean, it'll be a brief it'll be a brief, you know, uh,
review of what's going on. But once you have a file number, then you can go into the data minor and then figure out, you know, where things stand. We have the LS LSRP record. We have I have that contact. Yeah. Well, you know, if they've assigned it to an LSRP, now
it's the LSRP's, you know, job to figure out what kind of sampling needs to be done. Then they'll evaluate you know the extent of the environmental impact whether or not you know the the it's it's presenting a
problem. It's exceeded a standard memorial that the development is located. It's the the location is between fourth and fifth. It was the old west side west side of the railroad tracks. It's a big one. It was the fish
bakery way back when. Yeah. And it's private oil tanks that there's three tanks. Huge tank. Huge tanks. Two or 10,000. Not sure that 30 people. Mhm. That's But the great news is they stopped it. They stopped it from coming in. Right. We know that. We're just at
the point of where's the when's the remediation? when who's doing Yeah, we need to I personally think they blew off the That's my personal opinion. I think they blew off the They didn't care. That's my personal opinion. Who
didn't care? Why would they LSP? Why would they know this is the lake for a project that is is being implemented four four blocks from the lake that doesn't have any direct discharge in the deal?
We have pictures. Why would the lake be noticed? Because who do you think is going to notice deal for some an issue like this in Cathore? They didn't even notice the planning board.
See, I got you. I I understand. But we got to bring it up and uh we're going to have to make it make it a point that they have to look at especially after the cleanup event that we had people walking in oil. And we have
pictures after the event. We got more. We got more to do on that oil. So, I just it just got me going. I sold the coaster today. Just Just got in my Okay, I got to keep going, guys. Let's keep going.
Um um just backing up one second, Jesse, do you remember I'm bringing this up because of the um DA property owner guides we that uh Josh and I sent out and I know you got some back. Yes, I have some. I didn't bring them with me tonight. I I'll send them to you. You
just I just ran from June. That's okay. Mile them like there were maybe seven or eight. Could you just put them in the mail to me? Yeah. You know what? I'll take pictures of them and and scan that to you. Take pictures of the address. Yeah, the
ones that came back. Oh, great. Thank you. I have them with me. Tonight I didn't bring them. Okay, that's right. If you send me that, then I can follow up and get make sure they get those guides. Thanks, Jesse. You're welcome. Okay, we're going to move on to new business. New business. Obviously, the
cleanup, which was successful, uh it's successful in two ways, right? spotted the the sewer leak in Asbury which wasn't as extensive as what was said by the D. It wasn't even close but it was flowing and as part did a spectacular job stopping it within
about 2 hours of you getting notified and they took some time. It was there's we're trying to gather up some more information on what were broken. There was at least two pipes storm water pipes busted um and one sewer pipe and that
sewer pipe was in pretty bad shape. So they this thing I don't know how much distance they went. Tom, do you know? No, I don't. We have not heard. I saw photos of the crack sewer man and I saw cracks video video and and photos from
the sewer rack guys that were doing the work and they did a spectacular job. They rebuilt a lot of it. What about surge in the mean what happened? It was a we don't know how it happened but it was it seemed like be a backup. It was a backup
of a sewer like coach and a section of Andre Park and it they they it blew out maybe a section of the of old pipe. It was back up pressure and then it was all and one one pipe two one second. Let me
finish. Let me finish. I'm sorry. Okay. Let me finish. So it it backed up and went went up and the the water storm water pipes too low and the sewage went down. It's it's right great right place right and it was
right where the tennis courts at field and it was broken in that general there and it's uh it was across crosses and Peter Peter had the map Peter had given the maps to ask and the guys did a great job finding it and the only funny part
was when they built the tennis courts they went over the manhole cover and not only went over it they filled it with concrete so they had to chip all that stuff out and rebuild But it was a lot of work. So what's what happened with the
sewage dissipated? So Steve, can you can you explain that a little bit about what happened? So yeah. No, no. Explain what the what what happened to the storage? Yeah. There were x number of gallons somewhere under
67. What what happened that went into the lake? I I'm I'm actually Don, I'm having trouble understanding what you're saying. There's so much like of an echo in the room. It's really
that came in a lake. It It dissolves, right? It dissipates. If the bacteria is eaten, it dissolves. Correct. Oh, I mean, yeah. I mean, it's going to get diluted to some extent. So I mean initially there's going to be you know a pretty significant back you know the the
damage is primarily with the bacteria and then the nutrients but um yeah as that waste water hits the lake it is going to get diluted. I mean the and the sampling that was done really was to
establish you know what I would call like an acute impact and then they came back and sampled later to find out if the you know if that that sewer line break had been fixed to some extent. We did see the numbers go way down. So
apparently it was fixed and there was some dilution. I mean dilution is not the proper solution to pollution but but in you know in this case I mean what else can you do? I mean you can't filter it out. You have to wait for it to basically flush out of the lake. So yeah I mean it's basically what ends up
happening. Well the numbers the numbers that came back from that Thursday test was basically swim and words exact words was you can swim in the lake. So that's how low it was just to me. It's early in the season so you don't get a lot of wash. There wasn't a lot of rain around.
Uh but yeah, they said the water was was you know the only bad thing was that the press made it seem like it was assessment which is what it really was. But I think there was a lot of because I stopped by
I stopped by for days maybe 9:30. Yeah. And said you got to come and look at this. I went low and it wasn't slowing at that really. But you took a video slowing pretty significantly. How long how much longer after that? We looked at another hour. Yeah. But it wasn't
flowing. I looked at I said, "Yeah, there's obviously sewage there." So it's called TDW. But soon thereafter, maybe by 10:30 on a Saturday morning, as soon as it broke the blockage, it released released the pressure. It flow it flowed
towards the treatment force. It was going under the railroad tracks right where the boat ramp is near that. Yeah. And it would go to in main street, make a left turn and go up to Lake Drive. That's the flow. So they actually had to stop the flow. They had to put a ladder
in, stop it, and send it south. Yep. Uh to about 4,000. So the town road was closed. That's right. Long time two. Two hours. I think they we said two hours. They had stopped pretty much stopped it. So that midnight they had to slow.
That's right. So it wasn't volumewise, you know, I wouldn't estimate it, but it wasn't that much. No, no, they were swimming. It was a gush coming out. Congratulations on scheduling the lake cleanup day.
That's why we said it was the second cleanup where we saw two years ago it was oil. This year it was Franks are really good. Do you think that you were not? Who knows? Maybe the growers would have saw it. I don't know.
I mean, people were literally out in the lake in canoes cleaning up. No, no, I wasn't just out in the lake. Yeah. But the winds were blowing towards us. So it kept it was it was only about 100 ft a plume. You can see the plume about
100. I didn't get a good photo of it. That was the only thing I regret that time. Video it's just toilet paper floating on the water. That was the toilet paper suck. It was a white. It was a white
titty looking paper. That's J. That could have been your water bottle. Could have been my what? It could have been your water your waist point. You're on that side of the the fence here. Oh, I don't think so.
Here we go. Um I know my toilet paper toilet paper. But great clean up. Uh we had the the uh paddle your eco was they were they were great again. They had a nice crew there. Uh lot a lot of participants. Want a
mass school. a lot of volunteers in the public and and we did a really great job. So, it's very and I got a ton of about a third of a ton. So, we're it looked like a lot in the truck, but it was a lot of weight, but it was a lot of
pollution. Now, it stops looking for my side quarter size pieces. Now, I want to share something. I want to share about clean. One second. One sec.
share screen. Just while he's Did you hear anything yet? Can you do Facebook, Jamie? Can I do Facebook? Yeah. Can you do Facebook? Share Facebook. What do you want to see? I I just put the picture up. You guys can pass me that. There's a picture from
the the 80s or 90s. We can't figure out what, but it's a picture of the flume. Oh, and I think it's the And fishing club cleaning up. It's actually assessable and it's it's parable photo
but it tells you how far we've come over the years in terms of Is it on the DA commission Facebook page? Is that what you're talking correct? I just put it up. I forgot I came to Facebook. You see that?
I never saw that. I can't be full being that bad, but I think okay, okay, question. Okay, just a second. I was trying to
pull it up. I see it now. I'm going to try to get back to Really? Okay. I think he's in work for six year and it's a dramatic photo. Got a shout out the guys up to got him up to
their knees right now. That's it. So you see it right? That's what you wanted to see done. Yeah. It's it's really really bad. I mean those guys now would be their waist under their armpits in water. I
believe it's pretty deep in that area. Yep. Yeah. But it's not that deep anymore. The flume, the flume is right there. The flume gray is right on the bottom of the photo. And this is the typical shot we we see down with the fl we look at um and and check out debris
and whatever. But it's a lot of small debris. It's shallow. I think it's only about a foot deep. And it wasn't low. If you look at the wall, it was not lowered at all uh for that plan. That's that's the normal height. It's standard height
of the lake. So, we've come a long way as I said. Y that's that's would appreciate that. Thanks. Want to see the shots I
took of the sewage? No. For pictures. I did not I did not share them with photo. Yeah, it was it was a large turtle outfit. Two feet. Two feet and a throat statue. I didn't even know they still sold pink
toilet paper. All right, let's keep rolling. I have no more I think. Hey, Don. Yeah, just one note for the uh if anything happens like this again,
hopefully not. uh a no to D call the D does not necessarily mean that everybody is going to get notified. So you need to make sure that you follow up. Right. Right. So this is going and county OEM.
Yeah. And I have to compliment all the OEMs for all the towns within I I was involved with calling the official the key guys D for ASA Genie who went to the state got called them.
Uh I I within a half an hour I got on 9:30 I text all the OEMs. We have a a network on what's what's and all the OEMs uh in around the lake were notified about the situation. So and right most of the people were
notified. Yeah. We just you know Asbury Park's request was that if anything like that happens in the future make sure we call the city manager. Sure. Sure. But it was I didn't have I do not have his personal number. I know. I told them that. I
didn't have his number. You do now. Yep. I do now. But we called DPW and the sewer department. Those were the two that responded and they were the ones that fixed it. Well, he stopped stopped it. I don't know. I guess other than
show me eventually. Um the the M County guys came, but the Andrew Park guys got the cud. I'm a little perturbed by the state because we officially never got the water results. I got them through the Andrew Park press. No, I don't think the official
answer got them either, did they? They they did, but the city manager had a the interim city manager had to call the person who originally sent that out through NJD media. It's like I said, there's so
many layers of everybody. It's it's just you don't know who to talk to sometimes. But that's who it was. NJD who sent it. D Media is who sent it to Guanette because Guanette had called them to find out what was up. M but that really
should it's not the way it should happen I don't think but we got a lot of verbal answers and which was great we knew what the numbers were nothing right was it was a good day overall was a good day it seemed like a bad day but in reality it's a good day we have a a
pipe that's that was known had problems we had a lot of problems now action and DA commission has been working for years on finding out what the problems have been with the pipes that's not the hottest spot there that's there locations um that were tracked down. We
have gone and found stuff, found issues. We actually found a problem at that site before with with raw sewage that was coming from a building and that was fixed. So that the oil situation was too any oil situation. Yeah. Okay. But it's a it's a
pipe that controls a a lot of the acridge and as everything a lot of thing goes down there and same thing with western ocean town and Neptune there's still hot spots back there which one being sium mall so we'll try and track that down any more to come and and and
hopefully the next three three effort to maybe focus a little more and they're coming back to test right the health department Mammoth County Health Department I believe I believe they're going to be coming back. We're trying to get them back on a monthly basis, right?
Testing bridges. The 2017 18 test results are all on their website, right? Send it to Ken to post on our website. Um, and it's it's a very good report. Our link wasn't that
bad. It was much worse in in other lakes. Sweeter Lake than West in Wesley Lake. Westland there was supply high levels of eola fuel lake wasn't as bad but ironically have none but that would
be but you have waste water you know we have animals and you have you know birds all that run they have a different type of an urban watershed to those lakes and they all have a direct discharge to the ocean flowing in and out
and a discussion with the servers servers pretty much know when you have a big storm you're going to have we have dirty water coming out the links and they should be well aware of that some as me we should post post something every time I said I'm not going to we post the storm's open the gates are open
the clean lower the links and that for me is sufficient I'm not going to post health warnings I know the countyy's post people pretty much know there's going to be problem but especially situation like this it was it was unique and uh and I'm
glad they joined in with Okay, that's all I got. How about any more old business? We can open up to the public. We don't have any. Okay, let's open up to public meeting. Someone offer second. All in favor?
I Okay, I Any hands up? I have a question. I I was just wondering with regard to the sewage spill, are we supposed to start uh doing the water testing again or not yet?
Um can I answer that? That's Clonet. Yes, from Clonet. Um no. Yes, Patricia. The answer is yes. It's safe for us to recreate you normal activities on the water again. So yes, you can go. Are you
still testing water? Testing the water. for a while. I got an email from Erin to stop, but I never got an email saying that we should start again. Okay. I I did send her an email that included that information that we got from the state.
So, I I'll send it to her again. And um yeah, I I'm trying to get find out from her if they need more testers, too, so that we can we can promote that and get more help out there testing the lake. Um, hey Pat, the I two things. One, I
noticed you got rid of your wood. Congratulations. I'm not sure how you did that, but I I I was going to get people over there to take it, but there was no wood to be had, right? Oh, well, yeah, we paid somebody to come and take it. Oh, yeah. No, sorry to do that.
Yeah, we were going to give it a shot. Thank you. Um and and the other thing was Sunset Lake uh talking about water testing. U I called I pulled Mr. Aball, Dr. Ael, and um let me tell you that
that Sunset Lake is is is green, green as can be. It's horrible. So he knows it. They've been testing it. Uh I think he called the state on it. Uh because I said the water coming into the dealings is extremely drink.
So, I I'm not sure exactly why and I didn't get any more details from, but he's he's definitely looking at it and we we'll have more data next, but it's it's it's pretty I fished it the other day and it was pretty disgusting. Not that it was it was
trash, but it was just green. Green. Yeah. John, where is the nest? You said you wanted me to tell them at sunset. So, where's the nest? It's on a floating wetland island. You can see from the little bridge, huh? It's on the little island. Okay. Yeah. Forget what that has
a name. I forget what that name is. No, it's it's on one of our floating wetlands, right? It's one of our Oh, okay. I'm sorry. I It's hard. It's really hard to hear tonight. Yeah. I think we put the camera too far back. We
could modify. I don't know. Okay. Never really great, but I know. Well, if you're here, it' be wonderful for us. It's not just me. I mean, we're recording this for the public, too. I listen to it. I think it's okay. I know. I know you do.
Okay. No comment. Any other Any other comments, Tom? That's it. Motion to close. Motion to close the public hearing. Oh, meeting May 15th next. Hold on. Close. Hold on. What?
Second. Second. All in favor? I Okay. Okay. No change. Our meeting is May 15th, 7:00, right? I just want to check cuz I know we changed the April
meeting. It's May 15th. Yes. Okay. Thank you. We got to be one. Um, last word. Last one. We didn't do that. So, agenda.
I got nothing. She got nothing. I'm happy we got the grant. Well, we didn't get it yet. The old grant. We got the money. Okay. But the check the check got the grant, but we don't have the signed document. Oh, so the check didn't clear yet. The
check. As long as clear, you know, we're okay. This this grand is is almost a half a million, right? We're trying we're trying to get that move. Welcome back to Okay, Eric. Welcome back, Eric. Thank you. Welcome
back, Eric. You have any uh last word we added a new feature. What? Any kind of work? Oh, yeah. Welcome back, Eric. Thank you, Margo.
Um, hi. Um, you know, I noticed there's there are a lot of uh goose nests is C View Square Parking Lot Mall. There's lots of them. Um, what really? Yes, there's lots of geese. Are you seeing geese? Are you seeing the brand and
there but yes there there's there were some on eggs there. Um take a picture. Take a picture because we I think that qualifies. Um uh my beach sweep even though it was held in a noraster I had a dozen people
were very kind and we did get two large garbage bags full of garbage. Um, and I always Ocean Place is being mil tomorrow, so we'll always make sure that they don't uh leave stuff to wash into Deal Lake. And also, I'm always trying
to get my neighbors to realize that everything they do at their house uh affects Deal Lake and goes to Deal Lake. And um I don't think a lot of people realize that the um sewer grates goes straight to Deal Lake. So, I'm always trying to have them realize that
also. Maybe a dump race. Do you need Do you want some of those guides? I can bring those by to you if you want would like them, Margo. I have tons of them and they have them at our
our uh village office. They have a wall of pamphlets. They're right there. Great. And guide to cart fishing. I just want to mention Yes. in multiple languages. Okay, lock on. Okay, very good. Jamie, you got a last
one? Um, just one thing. I I I sent this to you and to Steve as I was reading about the fires down in um South Jersey in Ocean County and how dry it is and it was dry all through the fall. And you know, I see I'm sure all of us are
noticing how dry it is right now and it's spring even though we had some rain. But um yeah, it's super dry. And one of the things um you know I was thinking about is that we we really I'm thinking that it would be time for the
DA commission to think about doing another workshop about water and about uh storm water runoff and its relationship to water and the water quality because a big part of why we're having some of these well we know it's a
lot of it's climate change that's driving that but what can people do to help um the environment that we're in to save water, to help the water to be more pure, what's going into the lake to be more pure. And just like um Margot was
saying, um you know, some people don't even know that the storm drains actually the water actually ends up in the lakes or the rivers or the streams or you know, so it's education. Um you know, and part of our mission is education. So, I'd like to see us uh, you know, set
aside some time and I'd be glad to, if Steve is willing, glad to, I don't want to put you on the spot, Steve, but you know, I I know you've always been great about that in the past to do um, something for the public um, regarding storm water and water quality and what
people can do to help it to cuz we can't do it by ourselves. I mean the commission just is this even though there are a lot of us we can look into that and the other thing we got to add on my um sewer sewer
systems nobody's got an idea a clue what happens when they flush and a lot of it goes right past the lake and the sewer pumping station right here in inner lake is is a big piece of the pie and people don't realize they pass these silver
pipes pumping stations. There's one over one. They're all over the place. One of Terrace. That's interesting you'd say that, Don. One of the things that Chris said from the sewer plant is that even though it smells in there and it might
not be the most appealing field trip that might be something that we could do, you know, as part of what we do is take people on tours of the sewer plant. Yeah. Yeah. Ocean Patch takes care of a lot of them. Uh and Ocean Patch so sewer
authority can give tours. They do. That's great. They have they can't um I don't know if they've done it recently, but they can interal part and nobody even knows about they think it's the lake manages that I know. Yeah. So Chris Chris said I
think those from under should know that too they offered that once they're done with the construction up at the at the Osprey Park sewer department they would be willing to begin to offer tours.
That's a good we maybe promote that. That's all I got for now. Next meeting May 15. May 15. 7 year unless it's a it's a full moon. I think the 14th or 15th and my daughter's expecting my first grandchild. So I
might be the answer. We'll have to see. A motion to adjourn. I'll make a motion to adjourn Asbury Park. Thank you. Second. I'll second it. Thank you. All in favor? I oppos.