Paula Reed Ward
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An Alcosan sign along the banks of Chartiers Creek at the site of the proposed tunnel project.
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McKees Rocks Borough Council President Archie Brinza speaks at a news conference Tuesday about a lawsuit the borough filed against Alcosan over a proposed tunnel project.
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Michael Murray, pastor of Second Baptist Church that sits behind the construction site, said he fears for the safety of the community, especially children who live in the Hays Manor housing community nearby.
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Pittsburgh Planning Commission on Tuesday approved a plan to renovate the former Catholic school Bishop Leonard-St. Mary of the Mount Academy into loft apartments. The school is located on Bigham Street on Mt. Washington in Pittsburgh.
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A new parking garage and lab that will allow the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority to meet a 2036 deadline to upgrade its facilities was approved Tuesday by Pittsburgh Planning Commission.
“We are pleased with the commission’s decision and look forward to continuing the path toward realizing the overarching goal of the Clean Water Plan, which is cleaner rivers and streams,” Alcosan spokesman Joey Vallarian said after the meeting.
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Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority isn’t allowed to raise its rates to cover $500,000 it will invest into a compliance program as punishment for seven years of illegal sludge dumping into the Allegheny River from its Aspinwall plant, according to an agreement with federal prosecutors.
U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady announced the agreement in November, and on Tuesday the plea was entered in federal court Downtown before Judge William S. Stickman IV.
PWSA pleaded guilty to one count of violating its pollutant discharge permit and one count of making false statements in written reports about the sludge discharge, according to Brady’s office.
The Allegheny County Sanitary Authority faces a challenge as it works to implement a $2 billion plan to upgrade its system by 2036 — and it has nothing to do with sewage. Alcosan’s sprawling complex at its Woods Run treatment plant in Pittsburgh’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood is squeezed between the Ohio
Nearly 20 years after Pittsburgh was told it needed to do something about combined sewer overflows, the city and Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority are