Sussex-Wantage school board approves $25K reward

SUSSEX BOROUGH — The Sussex-Wantage Board of Education voted to approve $25,000 from Kinder Morgan, Inc., for an Environmental Science Pavilion or something equivalent on Aug. 27.

The new Environmental Education Center would be placed at the district's Gephard Environmental Science Center.

The Gephard center is about 30 acres the Gephard family gave to the district for school field trips. Currently, a small structure exists.

Potable water also is available as a result of a donated drilled well.

Board of Education President Thomas Card volunteered to be on the committee, which will work with Kinder Morgan to develop the Environmental Education Center.

Card is uniquely qualified for the committee because he currently teaches at the New Jersey School of Conservation in Stokes State Forest, under Montclair State University's School of Conservation.

In addition, Card retired as a Regional Lieutenant State Park Ranger in 2005.

School board member Robert Heiden said appropriate signs should be placed around the property in order to protect students during hunting season.