Tag archive for ‘water’
Water pipeline info request costs boro (0)
1/26/11 •
BY STACI WILSON Montrose borough will have to pay over $2,700 if it wants to receive the documents council requested from the Department of Environmental Protection in December. Prompted by concerns over the borough’s water supply council requested the documents before DEP scrapped its plan to have a water pipeline run from Montrose to about [...]
DEP drops waterline plans (0)
12/22/10 •
Cabot agrees to pay $4.1 million to Dimock residents BY LAURA LEGERE Times Shamrock Writer The Department of Environmental Protection has dropped its plans to build a 12.5-mile waterline from Montrose to Dimock Twp. in exchange for Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. agreeing to pay $4.1 million to residents affected by methane contamination attributed to [...]
Settlement draws criticism, praise (0)
12/22/10 •
BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer A settlement reached on Wednesday between the Department of Environmental Protection and a Houston-based gas driller has raised questions among critics about how strongly the state will defend its enforcement actions against an increasingly influential industry even as supporters applauded the agreement as a victory for common sense. The settlement [...]
Some Dimock folks see ‘dirty tricks’ in Cabot document (0)
12/22/10 •
BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer Legal releases delivered Thursday by the gas company deemed responsible for methane contamination in Dimock Twp. water wells have some township residents accusing the driller of using “dirty, dirty tricks” to try to free itself of a lawsuit pending in federal court. Early Thursday morning, attorneys for Cabot Oil and [...]
Boro to sue over pipeline (0)
12/08/10 •
BY STACI WILSON The borough council of Montrose has voiced its collective opposition to the extension of a water pipeline to Dimock in recent months. But at the Dec. 6 meeting, council opted to take an official step against it. Following an executive session, the council passed a resolution to have borough solicitor Marion O’Malley [...]
Penn Vest approves pipeline (0)
11/10/10 •
BY ROBERT SWIFT Times-Shamrock Writer The Pennvest board voted 10-2 today to approve public financing for a $11.8 million, 12.5-mile water line to serve residents of Dimock Twp. lacking safe water supplies. The financing will provide a state grant of $11.6 million and $172,000 loan to build a pipeline from Lake Montrose to an area [...]
Montrose boro has water capacity concerns (1)
11/03/10 •
BY STACI WILSON A meeting between Pennsylvania American Water Company representatives and Montrose Borough Council members last week did not alleviate council’s concerns that a proposed water line to Dimock was getting railroaded through the system. Councilman Sean Granahan said, at Monday night’s borough meeting, that council still has questions about the water capacity of [...]
Anti-pipeline meeting draws large crowd (0)
10/27/10 •
BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Opponents to a water pipeline planned to alleviate contaminated water wells on Thursday had their meeting shouted down by those who would benefit from the pipeline. About 450 people packed the Elk Lake High School auditorium for the meeting called by a group which dubbed itself as “Enough Already.” The majority [...]
DEP pushes for Montrose water (1)
9/23/10 •
BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer The state environmental regulatory agency is pushing a natural gas driller it deemed responsible for contaminating residential drinking water to pay to expand a public water line from Montrose to Dimock Twp. Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger said after a telephone conference with affected Dimock residents on Wednesday [...]
Great Bend addresses water and sewer issues (0)
9/08/10 •
BY PAT FARNELLI Borough Council addressed Cabot Oil & Gas permit to withdraw water from the Susquehanna River at Great Bend suggesting maybe that it should not be reinstated. Councilman Bret Jennings introduced a letter he had sent to the Susquehanna River Basin Commission saying that Cabot had requested permission to withdraw water from Great [...]