Sewickley Herald

              00	o
o	o
<x.(/)	a
a;aQ(-	i
Ui-tUJ -JUJ
*	a:
*	ot-	tn
r-
CDO < o3<i Q-00.0 o q: o>-nQ >-
U UiU
3^8PWwBSP(R0flPlip||'
wickley Hera
l#9t
!:::Seppo, Bell Acres, Edgeworth, Glenfield, Haysvilie, Leet, Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights, Sewlckley Hills
SQ CQnts
Temis^ anyone?
MELISSA GltMORE returns serves during Sewickley Valley YMCA tennis camp. For the net results, see page 19.
\	________ _______________	(Photo	by	Doug	Kaup)
New sign planned for village
Sewickley's Wolcott Park to be site of business directory
By Rich Bottles Jr.
staff writer
If you’re looking ior a specific merchant or waM to find information on upcoming events in Se«rickley, then you‘ll soon have to look no further than the corner of Beaver and Broad streets.
In a couple of months, Sewickley Commercial Development Corp. (SCDC) hopes to install an 8 by 2%-foot standing business directory at the busy corner.
SCDC boardmember Robert Kdrasek stressed that the directory would not be in Wolcott Park, but “will be out in the sidewalk area where the brick strip is.*’
The bill for the three-sided aluminum structure will be over $12,500. However, that cost is being paid for through funds from Allegheny County Commimity Development Corp.
Karasek said the directory windows will be back-lighted for night-time viewing. One side will feature Upcoming’ events, whDe the rest of the space will be reserved for the addresses of merchants.
He said merchants interested in having their businesses listed will be asked to pay an annual fee, which has yet to be determined, to cover the personalized lettering, maintenance and insurance costs of the directory.
“It will give someone unfamiliar with Sewickley a starting point to find out where he wants to go,” eoncluded Karasek.
Crime Prevention Parade rolls July 20
Aleppo Township Criihe Prfevention program will celebrate National Crime Prevention Month with its Crime Prevention Parade at 1 p.m., Saturday, July 20, on Beaver Road in Osbonie. Raindate is the following day.
The parade begins at the intersection at Beaver and Boundary Street and continues on Beaver to the traffic light on Route 65 in Haysvilie.
Following the parade^ games, T-shirts and refreshment sales await at Osborne Elementary
School. Crimfe-prevention materials, locks and bolts will be on display. McGruff the Crime Dog, Tweety Bird and Bugs Bunny as well as face painting and animal balloons will be there for the children.
Aleppo Crime Prevention supports the community in showing those on the wrong side of the law that crime prevention pays. Aleppo will join other communities in the National Ni^t Outpro-gram slated for the first week in August.
Sewage hazard in Kilbuck Run still causes stink
By Rich Bottles Jr.
staff writer
When Lorraine Blood and her family moved into their new home in the Deere Court subdivision along Red Mud Hollow Road in January, it didn’t take her long to realize there was a problem adjacent to her backyard.
The putrid smell and fly infestation was still apparent last week when she and her neighbor. Jack Faulkner, complained to Sewickley Hills Council about raw sewage being discharged into a creek by Sewickley Hills-Kilbuck Run sewage treatment plant.
“It’s always full of raw sewage and smells terrible,” reported Mrs. Blobd. “This has b^n going on since January, when we moved into the house.”
Council and the sewage authority have pleaded ignorance about the problem until last month, when Allegheny County Health Department issued a citation, dated June 13, for violations of the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Act.
Faulkner said he attempted to notify all members of council and the borough engineer of the problem more than a week before the citation was issued, however.
Faulkner Said he tried calling boardmembers on June 5, leaving messages on answering machines and with relatives, when he first noticed an excessive amount of pollution in the stream, which runs past his new home on Red Mud Hollow Road.
When the problem got worse over the following two days, and he had yet to receive any immediate help from council, Faulkner said he called Pittsburgh television stations, state agencies and The Sewickley Herald.
“I called the Allegheny County Health Department, the DER (Department of Environmental Resources), and my mother, because I felt everybody should know there is a problem,” he explained.
The Herald called council President Thomas L. KlixbuU on June 17, but was refered on to the sewage authority board. “They have the responsibility for the plant,” KlixbuU said.
For related issues, see page 3. ._____________________
A phone call was then placed to sewage authority chairman Joseph Harenski on June 17. When asked about reports of sewage discharge reaching Kilbuck Run, Harenski told The Herald reporter, “That’s the first I’ve heard of it.”
After last week’s borough meeting, borough engineer Jim Barrick said he reported the complaint directly to the plant operator on the same day that he received the call from Faulkner.
Mrs. Blood has contended that she contacted the sewer authority months before Allegheny County Health Department issued the citation.
Frank Thompson, a member of Little Sewickley Creek Watershed Association, noted that a letter dated April 29 to the borough from the county health department indicates a long history of violations at the plant.
“There’s certainly a question about how long this non-compliance has been gomg on,” he told council.
The letter stated that monthly discharge reports had been turned in .as much as a year late, and that county inspectors have been denied en-ti^ to the plant.
While publicly reading the April 29 letter, signed by ACHD’s waste management chief John Schombert, Thompson was interupted by Klixbull.
“I will tell you I got that letter this afternoon,” Klixbull yelled. “I told the son of a gun who wrote that letter that he’s a liar.”
He said the discharge resulted from a plugged up manhole, which caused a backup and an aerator that had been turned off.
Inside
* QV residents offer 'super' wish list 4 First-person account of U.S.S.R. trip 11 New dinner theater on stage Sat.