The Little Egg Harbor Municipal Utilities Authority has plans to build a new water treatment plant alongside the water tower on High Ridge Road. The plant is going to be a state-of-the-art treatment plant, said MUA Executive Director Earl Sutton.

“The plant has been eligible for funding from the New Jersey Infrastructure Trust since 2015,” said Sutton during a telephone interview. “Back in 2015 we began approval for a new well and plant off Otis Bog, but that was denied.”

Thereare already a well and two water tanks, one for high pressure and one for low pressure, at the site behind the Ocean…