Because of delays in Western Salisbury Volunteer Fire Company’s Swain Station project, a temporary building at Eisenhower Station will be winterized.

“We’re working on our temporary building to put in electricity and put down steel plates,” Western Salisbury Fire Company trustee and board of directors member Jerry Royer said at the July 13 Salisbury Township Board of Commissioners meeting.

The temporary building at 3425 Eisenhower Ave. will house Western apparatus until a new Swain Station is completed.

“Saturday [July 15], we’re having a work day to move things out of Swain,” Royer continued during the courtesy of the floor portion of the meeting in the township municipal building.

“We’re going to have to put some temporary heating in,” Royer said of the facility, which is adjacent to the Eisenhower building.

“Is there going to be an official groundbreaking?” Commissioner Alex Karol asked about the new Swain Fire Station.

“Yeah, I want to be the first to knock the wall down,” Royer said, referring to demolition of the existing Swain Station, 950 S. Ott St.

The new facility on the existing site is to include expanded bays to store six apparatus, an updated training room, meeting rooms, offices, a decontamination area, male and female bathrooms and a parking lot for the fire company’s 35 members.

The estimated cost of the new Swain Fire Station is approximately $3 million. Construction was to have begun in March. Demolition of the existing station and construction of the new station is projected to start in August or September.

In other business at the July 13 meeting, commissioners voted 5-0 to:

-Appoint Keystone Consulting Engineers to continue the plan review of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania Land Development Project at 2638 W. Rock Road.

Before the vote, Salisbury Township Manager Cathy Bonaskiewich said, “We wanted Keystone to stay with the project through to its end.”

-Authorize removal of Brian Smith from the Environmental Advisory Council because of a “lack of participation.”

“The EAC bylaws state that if [a member] misses more than two meetings he needs to resign,” Salisbury Township Assistant Township Manager-Director, Community Development Sandy Nicolo said.

Upcoming township meetings in the municipal building, 2900 S. Pike Ave., include: 7 p.m. July 26, planning commission and 7 p.m. July 27, board of commissioners.