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Linglestown Gazette: LP sewerage update

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

LP sewerage update

You may remember that Lower Paxton Twp. held a meeting last month in Linglestown with residents to answer questions about upcoming sewage repair projects. Here’s what’s in the works:

Letters were sent to 430 homeowners along or near Earl Drive, which is located between N. Lockwillow Ave. and Colonial Road, to attend the meeting to learn about plans to replace sewage lines, including ones that run from the street into homes, that will take place early in 2009. (The Paxton Herald article didn’t specify this info and several people from other areas attended the meeting.) Currently, the main sewer line that runs along western end of Earl Drive is being replaced.

The same type of project will eventually will happen in Linglestown and other areas of the township. Letters will be sent to homeowners before dirt starts flying.

The township has agreed to replace sewer lines as part of state-mandated repairs to prevent groundwater from getting into the sewage collection system, a situation that causes the overloading of pump stations and the sewage treatment plant. In the past, work was done to replace faulty connection points of sewer lines under the streets and ones that run out of homes, but those repairs have not stopped clear water from getting into the sewage system.

Replacing asbestos-cement lines that were installed when the system was first constructed in the 1950s with PVC lines is needed because the asbestos lines become brittle as they age and eventually fail, said a sewer department staffer.

Residents will not be billed for installation of new lines, but sewer rates are expected to climb to almost $200 per quarter over the next 20 years.

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