The Pinelands Regional School District owns the original wooden dam under Giffordtown Lane that holds back water of a series of bogs that have been ordered drained by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
District Superintendent Melissa McCooley said the topic of replacing the dam has been an issue for about 20 years.
“The school district owns the dam, the township owns the pipe that goes under the road and the county owns the road. I don’t think we are responsible for the entire project,” she said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
“Both John Bellone (school district plant manager) and myself have been working on this since the summer,” said…
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