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Serving Aleppo, Bell Acres, Edgeworth, Glenfield, Haysville, Leet, Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights, Sewickley Hills
Wednesday, April 28, 1993
Our Woman of the Year, Anne Phipps, brings a touch of the South to
Sewickley.
See page All.
In Two Sections 5CtCents.
>■ Fiddling around for the restoration of the Old Sewickley Train Station is violinist Eliesha Nelson. She's coming to town to play in a benefit concert on Saturday.
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► A Sewickley resident tells about life, in Tinsel Town during a stint as a film-making student under the great director George Lucas.
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► Four down and one to go for the Quaker Valley track teams.
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PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR Robert Casey confers with Leetsdale officals as part of his visit here last week to announce plans for a massive clean-up of toxic wastes. From left are Casey, Leetsdale Council President Roger Nanni and Leetsdale Mayor Michele Maruca.
Photo by James Addison
Governor starts Leetsdale clean-up
Hazardous waste to be removed at no taxpayer expense
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Staff writer
Leetsdale isdeaning up its environmental act.
And without cost to taxpayers.
That’s the message Gov. Robert P. Casey delivered in a speech at the All States Environmental Services warehouse in Leetsdale Industrial Park last week.
Leetsdale Industrial Corp., the owner of the property where more than 250 barrels of hazardous waste is stored; Tippins Inc. of Pittsburgh, Triad Engineering of Morgantown, W. Va., and Westmoreland Manufacturing of Scottdale have agreed to hire private contractors to clean up the polycholorinated biphenyls (PCBs), flammable liquids and caustic solvents.
These companies, and at least 10 others, hired All States Environmental Services to dispose of the waste in 1990.
“Instead of properly disposing of the waste, All States abandoned it here, took off, declared bankruptcy and left these companies holding the bag,” Casey said.
The four companies agreed to pay a private contractor $350,000 to clean up the mess.
Other companies involved in dumping the waste and All State might face legal action by the state and the DER if they don’t come forward, said Paul L. Behers, DER community-relations coordinator for the southwest region.
The agreement by the companies to foot the bill, said Casey, is a result of the Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act passed in 1988.
With this act, as Casey noted in his speech, “(The DER) has the muscle to get hazardous-waste sites cleaned up and place the protection of public health and safety fifst.”
Without this act, the state would have had to wait for a court order, delaying the clean-up, wasting tax dollars on court costs with no assurance the violaters would be caught, Leetsdale Mayor Mike Maruca and Councilman Roger Nanni were on hand to hear Casey’s speech and had a brief private word with the governor afterward.
The Leetsdale clean-up stands as an example of the success of the Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act. Since its passage, 40 sites have been cleaned, bringing in more than $100 million in federal Superfund money.
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The cost of education is going up, but with no increase for the taxpayer.
In 1993-94 it will cost the Quaker Valley School District 4.8 percent more than it did last year: a $602,533 increase but without an increase in miliage.
The Quaker Valley School Board announced the tentative general-fund budget of $15.5 million for fiscal year 1993-94 last week.
Although there is no miliage increase or across-the-board tax hike, the district has been able to keep the budget within the limits of the natural rate of growth in the tax base.
A portion of the increased costs is covered by a 2.9 percent increase in property assessment by the Allegheny County Board of Assessors, said Lois Swearingen, QV business manager.
The school district also is expecting to get funds from the 120 “en masse” appeals of property sold in 1992. And an increase in funds from earned-income taxes from traditional cost-of-living raises and promotions should cover the cost of the increase in the budget, she explained.
Even though there is an increase in the budget, said Ms. Swearingen, “We have done our best to hold down expenditures in every aspect of the budget.”
The board has set June 15 as the date for a special meeting for the final adoption of the budget. Copies of the budget will be available in the school district’s offices for a 30-day period.
Here’s what you are getting for your money:
Allegheny Intermediate Unit program of services budget: $2,7 million.
Parkway West Area Technical School operating budget: $3,5 million.
Sewickley Public Library budget: $312,000.
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