The Lower Towamensing Township supervisors met Monday afternoon for the annual reorganization meeting followed by their regular monthly meeting.

Brent Green, chairman of the supervisors, said the results came back from the lead screening done at Stoney Ridge Park and Recreation Center on Fireline Road by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The results showed that the lead limits are within a normal range.

The state DEP sent a letter to Lower Towamensing Township in September asking for permission to do air quality testing at ground level at the park. It wanted to continue its testing for high airborne lead.

The letter said the testing is part of the DEP’s investigation of the area surrounding the American Zinc Recycling plant in Palmerton, which grew out of recommendations made by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in their Letter Health Consultation in July.

Stoney Ridge Park was selected as the site for testing, because it is used by families with children. DEP places sites frequented by children, such as schools, day cares and other similar sites, as priority locations for the testing.

The supervisors were very pleased by the results.

Among the other items discussed, Green said he would like for the township’s engineering firm, Carbon Engineering in Summit Hill, to provide a quarterly report, “so we know what is going on for when residents have questions.”

Angela Farrell, a resident attending the meeting, suggested that information from the report be put in the township’s newsletter.

In other business, Green asked if the supervisors need to adopt a resolution to continue the pension for the employees.

Township solicitor James Nanovic responded that a resolution needs to be adopted on a yearly basis. He will prepare the resolution, and the supervisors can vote on it at the February meeting.

Supervisor Ron Walbert brought up that he is very displeased with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

“PennDOT does nothing to the roads in Lower Towamensing Township,” he said about the state roads that run through the township. “There are potholes everywhere. The water is running on the roadways. Something needs to be done.”

Walbert said he has contacted state Rep. Doyle Heffley’s office and Corey Reph from PennDOT.