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Vol. 88 No. 24®
The Sewickley
Herald
Wednesday, June 12, 1991
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You and me, kid
ELlSSA'dl.IMPi of Sewickley took first place in a Father’s Day essay contest sponsored by Boss Pafk.Mall and Gateway Press. That’s her dad, Joseph Olimpi, the inspiration for the winning piece, which answered the contest question, “Why My Pop Is Tops.” To find out why, see page 5,
Consolidation of local police?
QV-COG sees cost saving by merging local departments
By Nicole E. Peffer
staff writer
Fifty percent of the municipal budget is spent
oii	keeping the police department running, says Bob Kipp, executive director of Quaker Valley Council of Grovernments (QV-COG).
And it’s getting progressively worse.
A recent seminar held by the state Department of Community Affau^ gave local police departments and their governing bodieis some food for thou^t, alternatives that include contract police service and consolidation, or regionalization.
Contracting involves One municipal police force providing service to another municipality, A working example of this is Sewickley police patrolling OsbOrne streets.
Both boroughs benefit from the transaction. One gets police protection; the other gets a fee in return for its services.
Consolidation converts two or more police de{>artinents into one independent force. Operated by a board of directors consisting of i^resentatives from each community patrolled,
the force knows no boundaries.” In actuality, the police forces totally disband, and a new one is created.
Kipp, affirms that much good comes from consolidation, including better equipment and a cost-efficient force. Some police forces fear that their jobs are in danger.
“There isn’t much loss of personnel,” he said. “In fact* sometimes the number is increased, which sa>res on overtime pay.”
But some communities like to to keep their own identity, and maintaining their own police department is Vital to that goal, according to William Rohe, Sewickley Heights borough manager.
Put simply, police officers and residents know one another,
Charles Kulbacki, Bell Acres Council president, agreed that a “personal touch” is important.
“Our police officers know the residents oh a one-on-one basis. If we would join with another municipal police force it would be like a state policeman coming into their homes,”
Yukf Sewage befouls waters of Kiibuck Run
By Rich Bottles Jr.
staff writer
When Ed Schroth discovered that someone was apparently dumping sewage into Kiibuck Run upstream from where his students had a trout project, he wasn’t amused.
But it might be a while before Allegheny County Health Department can do anything about it.
Schroth, faculty advisor to Quaker Valley High School’s environmental extracurricular group Up the Creek Gang, said residents along Kiibuck Run called him late last month about a possible sewage discharge.
“We were alerted by local residents who saw toilet paper and debris coming down the stream,” he reported.
Schroth and Frank Thompson, who represents Little Sewickley Greek Watershed Association, investigated the site in question on June 2 and conducted tests on the water.
Schroth said the tests were to determine the levels of nitrogen, phosphorus and pH (acidity) in the water. Test results, which indicated that sewage was in the water at the site, will be turned over to the proper authorities.
“We collect data and then
turn it over to the appropriate agency,” Scroth concluded.
The day after his inspection, Thompson brought the matter to the attention of Sewickley Hills Council. He told council last week that he investigated a pipe extending into the creek from a house along Glenfield Road.
“A blast of water came out of the pipe and that confirmed, at least in my mind, a direct discharge into Kiibuck Run,” Thompson told council. “It was obvious to me there was sewage coming right out into the stream.”
Thoinpson said the Allegheny County Health Department is being called in to investigate, but it will probably be weeks before the department makes a determination.
Up the Creek Gang has been working to have the creek upgraded to the status of a High Quality Stream. The Environmental Quality Board currently ranks the creek as a Warm Waters Fisheries Stream.
To earn the higher rating, trout must not only be able to live in the stream, but also spawn there. Kiibuck Run has its headwaters in Sewickley Heights, Sewickley Hills and FranWin Park.
Sorry, wrong number
Leetsdale says no to new address system
Residents of Beech Street in Leetsdale have little to fear as far as changing house numbers goes.
Despite recent suggestions from a Leet Township representative, Leetsdale Councilman Roger Nanni found no reason to change the existing house numbers to prepare for the coming of 911 service to the Quaker Valley area.
Unlike Leetsdale, Leet had several house numbers on Beech Street that were duplicates, causing difficulty with postal deliveries, Tom
Powner, Leet fire chief, said numbers out of sequence could cause havoc when emergency services are attempting to find the site of an emergency.
Powner told Leetsdale Council in April of an ordinance passed by the township to eliminate the duplication of house numbers on Beech and Main streets in both communities.
Nanni, public safety chairman, informed fellow coun-cilmen in May that he had discovered no problem with duplicate house numbers on the Leetsdale side of the street.
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