A Rush Township resident asked supervisors if anything can be done to put a stop to loud music that can be heard in different parts of the township.

Lori Kane told supervisors at Thursday’s meeting that she wasn’t sure exactly where the music was coming from — but thought maybe Quakake or Delano.

Others have heard the music, too, with reports from Ryan, Delano and Mahanoy townships.

“There was music playing that I would think my neighbor across the street was playing while having a party at his house — that’s how loud it was,” Kane said of a recent Wednesday.

The music was so loud, she said, that she could hear it indoors.

Kane videoed the noise, posted it to social media — and learned that other Rush residents are also hearing the loud sounds often.

Similar complaints are also frequent on a social media page for residents of Barnesville and Ryan Township, with the most recent reports from late Thursday night.

“I think there’s been many complaints about that in the past,” said Chairman George Gerhard, who said he can also hear it. “I think it’s coming from up in Delano somewhere.”

Township Police Chief Rick Weaver said the origin is the former American Cable Recyclers at 599 Lofty Road, between the village of Lofty and Delano.

Schuylkill County property records show the parcel measures 30 acres and list the owner as Advanced Consulting of Port Carbon. The land is the site of the former Agmet Refining Corp. and had been placed on the federal Superfund list.

Weaver said that between 20 and 70 vehicles are often parked at the site, with vehicles equipped with “extra batteries” pumping out music.

“The state (police) goes there but the problem is that if two or three or four state troopers go there and there are 60 — 80 people, there’s not much they can do about it,” Weaver said. “And the owner won’t say they’re trespassing.”

“I think a lot of the local police are aware of this, it’s just that they have on jurisdiction,” Gerhard said.

“Everyone’s aware of it,” Weaver said.

Solicitor Chris Reidlinger is familiar with the site — and the noise complaints.

“Delano deals with this all the time. The problem is that it’s an absentee owner,” Reidlinger said. “People go there and just trespass on the property but there’s nothing that can be done on it because the owner is MIA (missing in action).”

Reidlinger said Delano Township supervisors are trying to stop the partying and noise but “there isn’t really a good solution.”

Last summer, area fire companies were dispatched to five fires that occurred over the span of a few weeks at the property. Each call came in after midnight, and crews reported trash and brush fires.