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LEHIGH VALLEY WEATHER

Board deals with recycling

Heidelberg Township Administrator Janice Meyers told supervisors she called Arthur Oakes, operations director at Northwestern Lehigh School District.

Oakes told her the district is in the process of implementing recycling and the township would hear about the progress.

The township wanted another bin at its recycling site behind the municipal building but was told by Berger Sanitation the price would increase.

The room available does not allow for commercial recycling.

A number of televisions were left at the site and Roadmaster Kevin Huber, said during the April 17 supervisors meeting, he took them to the annual CleanSweep recycling event at the Lowhill Township Municipal Building.

He said corrugated boxes are to be flattened otherwise they take up too much room in the bins.

Huber suggested signs with rules and a list of what is acceptable should be posted.

Resident Carl Brein-inger asked who would enforce the rules. He said on the previous Monday morning there was a mess at the site.

Berger Sanitation workers were picking up the debris.

Supervisor Steve Bachman said the littering ordinance would cover items left outside the bins.

In other matters, a yard waste survey will go out with the next newsletter.

The township wants to learn what the true cost of shredding the material is.

Washington Township can bring the shredder for between $1,000 and $3,000.

In his report to the board, Supervisor David Fink said Goodwill Fire Company, Germansville had a successful hoagie sale.

The fire company's new brush truck is "quite a piece of equipment," Fink added.

The six-wheel, all-wheel drive vehicle was received from the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and firefighters renovated it into a powerful brush truck.

During the annual road inspection, Huber identified areas where water is a problem.

He is looking into getting help from the dirt and gravel road program.

The township received a $20,000 dust suppression grant.

"We have our own truck and sprayer," Huber said.

The Dirty Girl Mud Run is scheduled to be held July 26 on the Jaindl property.

Between eight and 11 permits will be needed.

Tara Jones, as zoning secretary, has been spending time on it.

Legal and engineering fees should be included as they were for the Tough Mudder.

There will be an escrow account opened for road damage.