Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Officials from Sewickley, Aleppo Township and Glen Osborne toss the dirt at a sewage interconnect groundbreaking ceremony.
Officials from three communities gathered Tuesday in Glen Osborne for a groundbreaking ceremony for the Sewer Interconnect Project. With shovels in hand, leaders from Sewickley, Aleppo and Glen Osborne turned the dirt to officially kick off the construction. Sewickley Manager Kevin Flannery said the $4.4 million construction project has taken years of planning to get to this point. Once complete, sewage will run from Aleppo and Glen Osborne to the treatment plant in Sewickley. "It's a little regional sewage system that services all of the area and it's been eight years in the making," Flannery said. Some of the obstacles involved included obtaining easement agreements from residents whose properties will be used during construction. The…
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The borough is negotiating with a few property owners to help resolve an ongoing sewage discharge problem.
Rose LaSpada Smith lives in the same house her father built in Sewickley Heights where, over the generations, she built her own memories. The family was given the land on Scaife Road as payment for working on a local estate. Uncles emigrated from Sicily, worked and lived on the property. Her father, born in the kitchen of what is now a neighbor’s house, raised his own family there. And it's where LaSpada Smith raised her three kids. But LaSpada Smith said she and two other families are now being forced to leave those memories behind. William Rohe, borough manager, said septic tanks from three homes are discharging into a small stream nearby. Property owners have been ordered to either update their septic systems at a price of about $30,000…
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
As part of the agreement, the borough’s sewage plants will be replaced with pump stations.
The Bell Acres Municipal Authority has entered into an agreement with the Allegheny County Health Department to improve sewage treatment in the borough. Council Vice President David Renfrew, municipal authority chairman, said Monday the health department set the consent agreement to begin on Feb. 1, which started the clock on a list of priority measures that have to be completed during the next two months. "We're moving toward it," Renfrew said. The borough is under a consent order to address its four aging sewage treatment plants. As part of the agreement, the borough’s four sewage plants will be replaced with pump stations, a multi-million dollar project that isn’t expected to begin until later this year. Renfrew said sewage would be …
Laura Penderghast
9:34 am on Friday, June 29, 2012
I grew up in Sewickley, and I hate telling people that because they think I'm a snooty, selfish, self-indulgent megalomaniac. This is the kind of thing that gives Sewickley a bad name. The borough is just trying to get rid of homes that don't compare to the extravagant mansions. Stop thinking your so entitled to everything, and give these families a reasonable solution! more ›