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Residents push back against sewer system sales, fearing cost
By ANDREW MAYKUTH, The Philadelphia InquirerMay 15, 2021 GMT
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (AP) Lisa Lilick and Carol Smith struggled to get fellow Conshohocken residents to pay attention to their campaign opposing the sale of the borough’s sewer system. Who wants to think about boring wastewater when there’s a pandemic going on?
“Then Carol, she did the little thing with a toilet,” said Lilick.
The “little thing” was a simple image that Smith dug up on a Google search, a cartoon commode with a worried expression and the palm of its hand held up. “No to sewer sale,” the cartoon toilet intoned. “Bad for residents, seniors, fixed income.”
The frenzy of acquisitions in Pennsylvania is driven by a 2016 state law that encourages the consolidation of smaller water and wastewater systems under private ownership.
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Limerick Police Officer Steve Crawford carries a box of unwanted medications that were collected and disposed of during Drug Take Back Day. The county took in a total of 7,252 pounds of unwanted medications at participating police departments and five grocery stores on April 24.Â
Photo Courtesy Montgomery County District Attorney s Office
Photo Courtesy Montgomery County District Attorney s Office
Josh Varady, an investigator with the Montgomery County Detective Bureau, fills a box truck of unwanted medications collected during Drug Take Back Day. Since the program began in 2010, more than 92,000 pounds of medicines have been safely collected and disposed of in the county.
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A water main is currently being repaired after a break on Sunday morning in Lackawanna County.
According to Pennsylvania American Water, about 25 homes and businesses are without water on the one thousand block of John Avenue in Dunmore.
The call came in around 5 a.m. when someone spotted water bubbling through the pavement.
Officials say repairs to the six-inch break should be completed sometime on Sunday evening in Dunmore.