During a special meeting Monday night, Rush Township supervisors voted to submit their planning module for the Lincoln Drive sanitary sewer extension to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

At present, businesses and private residences are connected to a sewer line on the east side of Route 309, between the Route 54 intersection and the Hometown Wal-Mart store. The new line will run under the bridge that spans the railroad line just south of the Two Kings Restaurant on Route 309 to connect to nine homes and businesses along Lincoln Drive, west of Route 309. Both lines will connect to the Tamaqua sewer system.Rush Township has been awarded a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant toward the project, which may cost about $900,000.During Monday's meeting, the supervisors executed an application seeking an additional $50,000 grant. The project should begin sometime this fall.