An intermunicipal agreement for the transmission of sanitary sewage for a site in Parryville has been approved.

Borough council at a public hearing last week unanimously approved the agreement, as well as the agreement bind between the borough and Parryville Site LLC.

The public hearing was held to update a prior conditional use application regarding the proposed kidney dialysis center being implemented on 770 State Road.

A conditional use application was granted by council over a year ago, which requested 7,192 square feet of space. This was an error considering the actual number of square footage necessary was 7,985 square feet.

The hearing sought to request the amendment of the number of square feet on the conditional use application from 7,192 to 7,985.

Council Vice President Jason Smith, along with Mayor Tom Kobal, raised questions as to whether any hazardous materials could potentially be involved in the dialysis process.

Joe Bennett, managing partner of Bennett Family Properties LLC, attempted to address their concerns.

“There are no chemicals that they use,” Bennett said. “They use salt to deionize and that’s about it.”

Franklin Township supervisors had hoped in October to approve the Parryville Intermunicipal Agreement pending Parryville Borough’s approval.

While the motions were listed on that board meeting agenda, no action was taken after township solicitor Tom Nanovic informed supervisors of a letter he had received from Parryville’s counsel, attorney Robert Frycklund.

Nanovic said there were six items Frycklund recommended be changed, which Nanovic submitted to Parryville for its review.

From the township’s perspective, the problem was that the building at 770 State Road, Parryville, is not located in the township. Normally, the township would bill the property owner, and therefore wanted the responsibility of payments for billing purposes in Parryville’s name. However, Parryville wanted it in the property owner’s name.

The building is expected to change over from Keystone-Harley Davidson to a medical center along with space for the Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit to expand.

In August, Franklin supervisors, along with Parryville’s Borough Council, held a joint meeting to develop an intermunicipal agreement for the transmission of sanitary sewage for the building.

Bennett Family Properties LLC’s confirmed property transfer by Bennett said previously that “the CLIU will be located on a little over 18,000 square feet, with the medical center on the other 10,000 square feet.

“The dialysis center operated by DaVita would operate as a separate entity from Keystone Harley-Davidson.”

The DEP said the former agreement that was made years ago when Blockers was connected was done incorrectly and that every municipality involved should be signing that agreement.

Since the property transfer was confirmed by Bennett, agreements have been in the works.