L. Towamensing sewer line meeting not set
Two months after engineers attended a Lower Towamensing Township supervisors meeting about the sewer line project, residents are still wondering what’s next.
At the meeting in March, engineers from Carbon Engineering Inc. in Summit Hill gave the township a partial list of the properties where easements would be needed. The sewer line would run through them. The engineers anticipated there would be about 220 properties in all, but wouldn’t know for certain until after they were done mapping the route.
Brent Green, chairman of the supervisors, asked them when they thought they would know just exactly how many easements would be needed.
Engineer Loren Salsman told him it would take at least a couple more weeks. The supervisors figured then that the meeting would probably be in April. That meeting didn’t happen.
Resident Jean Papay asked the supervisors Tuesday night if they know when that meeting might be held.
Green told Papay on Tuesday night that he doesn’t think the meeting will happen this month either, but the supervisors would be discussing the project. He said design work for the three pumping stations is being looked at right now.
“Last month, we made a motion to have an engineer work with the township solicitor and the board to go out and meet with the three affected property owners where the pump stations will be at,” he said. “(The engineers) have submitted all of their state permits. Now, we’re just waiting for those reviews.”
Green said the engineers and the township have talked to the ski resort, because one of the pumping stations will be on its land, but they haven’t talked to the other two property owners. He thinks they will organize a meeting with the property owners effected by the sewer line easements first, and then talk to the other two property owners effected by the pump stations project.
“At this point in time, the bigger priority is getting the other easements in place for the conveyance system,” he said.
When the meeting is scheduled, it probably won’t be held at the municipal building.
Township solicitor Jim Nanovic said in March that they will need a larger venue, because everyone won’t fit in the municipal building, but where to hold it wasn’t decided.