Lower Towamensing Township supervisors want the garbage and debris strewed over the closed section of Golf Road between Fireline Road and Dairy Road cleaned up.

During their meeting on June 6, Brent Green, chairman of the supervisors, said, “There is debris and garbage everywhere, and it’s not people coming and dumping off stuff. There’s large boulders. There’s tree stumps. It has to be from the adjacent property.”

Green said he thinks their solicitor should send a letter to the adjacent properties asking them to clean it up. The township still has a right of way with the road, he said. It hasn’t been formally vacated.

“They do not have a right to do what they are doing,” Green said.

Supervisor Michael Takerer said, “Seems like we shut it down, and they use it as their personal (space).”

The township is going to put up permanent closed signs, and agreed to have a letter sent to let adjacent property owners asking them to remove the items from Golf Road.

The supervisors also decided to have the speed checked on several roads in order to draft an ordinance adjusting the speed limits. The roads include: Dairy, Wintergreen, Golf, Boyer Farm, Club and South Fireline roads, and Hemlock Street.

In other business, the township received a proposal from EM Kutz Inc. in Whitehall to provide the truck uplift for a Freightliner truck the township approved buying at the May meeting.

Green said the proposal includes a stainless steel dump body with a hitch, an under tailgate spreader, LED work lights across the truck for warning, backup alarm, brake controller, mud flaps, and electronic two-arm tarp system. It also has a road watch temperature system for when they are plowing to check the road temperatures to know if they need to salt.

The cost is $103,087. It would be a third quarter build and will most likely be available later this year.

There are other features available not in the proposal that the supervisors could consider and could be added at a later date, Green said. One of those items is a camera system that will allow the driver to see the rear of the truck and under body. It has a heated night vision camera.

“The other option that I think we should be considering, but really can’t because we don’t have all the equipment, is a pre-wet system, which would pre-wet the spinner control, the spinner on the back of the truck with magchloride (magnesium chloride) or calcium chloride,” Green said. “What that does with the salt is it allows you to work at a lower temperature than the current salt limits, so when you have deep freezes it’s not going to go down to zero, but it will take you down to a lower temperature. Otherwise, you’re stuck with just anti-skid.”

The cost for the control mechanism, the pump and 135 gallon saddle tank that goes over the tailgate is $8,505. Green said the township would need a storage tank next to the building and pump to fill the trucks in order to incorporate the pre-wet system into their trucks. They have not requested a proposal for those items. Green thinks the system would cost about $5,000.

The supervisors approved the proposal from EM Kutz, and will consider the additional pre-wet spinner system at a later date.

The supervisors also approved the following:

• Ralph Cortazzo, an alternate member of the Zoning Hearing Board, was appointed to serve as a member. Georgia Mock was appointed as an alternate.

• Tire recycling will be included during the electronic recycling event in the fall. More information to come.