When: Manor Township Supervisors meeting, April 5.
What happened: The board approved two requests from the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority, including a request to extend the hours of operation at the landfill during upcoming construction and a request in support of stockpiling ash for a 6-month trial period. The township will send a letter to the state Department of Environmental Protection in support of the move.
Background: According to Bob Zorbaugh of LCSWMA, the Inashco facility had approached DEP with a proposal that includes creating a visual screen around the ash stockpile. During a recent Zoom meeting hosted by LCSWMA for neighbors of the landfill, the authority did not receive any negative feedback. Zorbaugh said the extended hours are necessary during construction at the transfer station to accommodate the additional vehicles. The current hours of operation are 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturday.
Legislation to fight sea level rise goes to Florida governor
by Bobby Caina Calvan, The Associated Press
Posted Apr 8, 2021 4:22 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 8, 2021 at 4:28 pm EDT
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Legislation hailed as some of the most robust yet to defend U.S. coasts against sea level rise is headed to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a proposal that would provide millions of dollars annually to communities threatened with losing ground to rising oceans because of climate change.
With 1,350 miles (2,100 kilometres) of coastline, including some of the country’s most iconic beaches and prized real estate, Florida is among the most vulnerable places on earth amid the global fight against rising atmospheric temperatures.
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Millions of gallons of water laced with fertilizer ingredients are being pumped into Florida’s Tampa Bay from a leaking reservoir at an abandoned phosphate plant at Piney Point. As the water spreads into the bay, it carries phosphorus and nitrogen – nutrients that under the right conditions can fuel dangerous algae blooms that can suffocate sea grass beds and kill fish, dolphins and manatees.
It’s the kind of risk no one wants to see, but officials believed the other options were worse.
About 300 homes sit downstream from the 480-million-gallon reservoir, which began leaking in late March 2021. State officials determined that pumping out the water was the only way to prevent the reservoir’s walls from collapsing. They decided the safest location for all that water would be out through Port Manatee and into the bay.
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