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Camden County needs a backup plan for future storms. Clean energy can be the solution, developer says.
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Posted Mar 06, 2021
Dramatic rain clouds hover over the Covanta Camden Energy Recovery Center and its smokestack last May, viewed from I-295. (Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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When a powerful derecho slammed South Jersey with 93 mph winds last June and a round of intense thunderstorms followed just hours later, Camden County found itself with a sewage problem.
The storms managed to knock out the two independent power lines that connect the Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority’s sewage treatment plant to the main power grid. Then, the plant’s backup generator failed.
It doesn’t appear to have Gov. Cooper’s support, despite him calling on K-12 school districts across the state to allow in-person instruction earlier in the month.
The CHCCS Board of Education unanimously approved a hybrid return-to-learning plan at a Feb. 4 meeting. Although originally set to vote on the matter Feb. 18, the Board pushed the decision earlier following a recommendation from Gov. Roy Cooper.
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New Jersey FMBA President Ed Donnelly seems like a formidable potential candidate for state Senate
in the 21st District. He’s a powerful guy as both head of one of the state’s big public workers unions and chair of the Police and Firemen’s Retirement System. And it’s another one of those once-safely Republican districts that got a lot friendlier-looking to Democrats in the Trump era.