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r T H E B E B E S S SERCI\C THE WARWICK AREA EOR MORE THA\ A CEMTl'RY 109th Year ESTABLISHED APRIL 1877 AS THFSUNBt AM Lititz, Lancaster County PA, 17543. Thursday, CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD 1937 ’ J f January3 30,'1986 25 CENTS A COPY. $8.50 PER YEAR BY MAIL WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 20 Pages-No. 43 Boro council questions Huber subdivision plans A preliminary plan for the Huber tract just north of Lititz borough brought considerable discussion among borough council members and several citizens at Tuesday night’s meeting. The property is located east of the intersection of East Newport and Brun-nerville roads. Randy Wright of J. C. Engineering brought the plan before council as a courtesy, at the request of the Warwick Township Supervisors. Wright told council that he would also be submitting the plan to the Lititz Planning Commission for its comments. That step is usually done first, but Wright explained that he wanted to get both council’s and the planning commission’s comments by the township supervisors Feb. 12 meeting. The proposed subdivision, to be known as Quail Ridge, will contain 234 units on 31.33 acres, Wright said. Of those units, 96 will be apartments with the balance as townhouses. He said the former farmhouse will be sold on a larger lot as a single-family dwelling. The southern property line of the tract follows the borough’s northern boundary that that point. Wright said the apartments will be in three clusters, with one accessed off of East Newport Road and the other two off of Brunnerville Road. Cardinal Road will be extended from the Fair Meadows development to the south through Quail Ridge and connect with Newport Road, Wright said. Wright also said that a landscape screen would be installed between the proposed development and the existing single-family d ev e lo pm e n t (F a ir Meadows) to the east, as mandated by the Warwick Township zoning ordinance. Council member David Bucher questioned Wright about the increase of storm water which would flow into Lititz borough. C o u n cilman Donald Stauffer told Wright that the possibility of increased runoff “ sca red him” because “in the last seven to eight years we finally got the water problem in that part of the borough stabliszed. ’ ’ Stauffer said that it “now looks like we might have problems kicking up again.” Wright assured the council that the township’s engineer had examined the storm water runoff figures and found the planned storm water management system adequate for the area. Wright said the township’s new sto rm w a te r management ordinance s tric tly d etails th a t development of a property cannot increase the storm water runnoff. Stauffer said he would like to see the borough’s engineer examine the figures as well. I r o n ic a lly , both municipalities use the same engineering firm, Huth Engineers. The question of increased traffic was also raised. Staffer wanted to know if there were plans for a traffic light at the Brunnerville and Newport Road intersections. Wright said not that he was not aware of any and that since it was a state road, it would be a state decision. A resident in the audience questioned what number of additional cars could be expected to go through the borough because of this developement. Council members said to “figure on two cars per household, or about 500 cars.” Another resident said the traffic would probably come down Cedar and out Lincoln to Broad, which would make that roads very heavily traveled. Council member Russell Pettyjohn pointed out that at some time Oak Street will be finished through the Fair Meadows development so that it will bring some traffic around Lititz by way of Second Avenue. Pettyjohn also asked Wright if Warwick Township planned to ask for water from the borough for the development. Wright said, “I wasn’t going to ask tonight, but I’m aware we will need to ask. ’ ’ Council president, Clyde Tshudy, asked if that request could be honored under the (Turn to Page 3) Two college students spend semester in England by Kathleen King Kim Garrett and Brian Roth have several things in common. They both graduated from Warwick High School in 1981. They both graduated from Kutztown University Dec. 21.And they both spent the last semester of their college career at Crewe & Alsager College. The most common reaction to such a statement might be the question - “Where in the world is Crewe & Alsager College?” In England, to be exact. Not a surprising question, though. If one was a student at Crewe & Alsager College, one might ask a similar question - “Where in the world is Kutztown University?” But actually, many of the students at Kutztown and Crewe & Alsager actually know that each other exist, because of a special exchange program th a t enables students at one college to spend a semester at the other college. And that is exactly what Brian Roth and Kim Garrett did, along with 25 or so other Kutztown students. Although many last semester seniors might be wrapped up in a search for employment or graduate school, Brian and Kim had other things on their mind. There’d always be time to find a job. There wouldn’t always be time, or an opportunity, to be a student at a European university. “I wanted to broaden myself,” Kim explains about her decision to take the semester program. Brian agreed, adding that such a program, he thought, “would help me put America and Americans in perspective.” The Kutztown students left home on Sept. 3. They spent two days in London, then split into smaller groups and traveled on their own for the next three weeks throughout continental Europe. Like many Americans abroad for the first time, Brian, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Roth, 205 S. Locust St., said he was surprised at how many Europeans knew English. “Languages here should be m an d a to ry ,” Kim believes. “And at younger ages — in elementary school.” She said she tried Spanish in high school but “didn’t like it.” She feels if she had taken a language at a younger age, it would have been more interesting and easier, as well. In spite of a lack of fluency in another language, Kim said she managed to communicate and told of an incident on a train from Venice to Austria. “There were two Italian boys. I think there were cadettes at a military school or something. They could only speak broken English,” she explained. Kim said she started drawing pictures - of' the United States and where Lititz was. They did the same. “For 45 minutes we communicated by pictures,” she recalled with a shake of her head. “ It was fascinating.” Both Brian and Kim thought that college students in England were treated on a more mature level than here in the United States. They both agreed that the classes demanded more intellectual re sp o n se and more responsibility on the part of the student. “Here they spoon feed you,” Brian said. Kim, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Garrett, 815 Diston View Drive, agreed. “In England it’s up to the student to go and find out the answers to things. Here they tend to give you a lot of the stuff,” Both noticed a lack of quizzes and tests at their English college. But since they were only at the college for one semester they did not get to experience the demanding finals, the tutorials, that all English students dread so much. Brian said the English students who come to Brian Roth and Kim Garrett (Turn to Page 3) One of Esther Markey's prized possessions is this shot of Discovery, Challenger’s sister shuttle, on its launch pad. Science teacher reassures students following Tuesday’s Shuttle explosion by Bonnie Szymanski Esther Markey, fourth-grade science teacher at John Beck Elementary School was going to start a Young Astronaut chapter at her school. She had spent two weeks this past summer participating in a program for science teachers at the F lo r id a I n s titu te of Technology and Kennedy Space Center. She had studied space, rocketry, astronomy and aeronautics with NASA instructors and had returned to the classroom full of enthusiasm for the space program and for the ideas she planned to incorporate into the Young Astronauts program. Tuesday, following the tragic explosion of the space shuttle Challenger moments after lift-off, Markey told the Record: “I’m going to have to think about it now.” “There’s a big lump in my insides,” she admitted, noting that she and some of her students had not watched the lift-off, assuming it would be delayed. They had been watching the televised preparations earlier that morning, said Markey, and concluded that the shuttle wasn’t going to be launched. The set was turned off and the students began other activities. It was only when some released-time students began returning from classes that the teacher heard that the launch had taken place. Shocked by what she was hearing, she turned the television on again, only to discover that the Challenger had exploded in a gigantic fireball an estimated nine miles above the earth. When the television reports confirmed what had moments before been only rumors, “there was just silence; we couldn’t believe it,” said the teacher, still speaking with difficulty, obviously attempting to maintain her composure about a loss she considered almost a personal one. A special friendship On Oct. 25, Richard Methia, one of the nine semi-finalists in the teacher-inspace program, came to Lititz to speak with John Beck students at the invitation of Esther Markey. The two had met as a result of their mutual interest in the teacher-space program and Markey’s involvement in the summer program in Forida. Markey had received a personal invitation from NASA to watch Challenger’s launch. “I was really thrilled to be invited, but after thinking about it, decided that delays in the launch were a possibility and so I had to decline. “All the semi-finalists were there, watching,” reported Markey. She said she would probably be speaking with Methia in the near future. During his October visit, he had told the students about a plan for a possible group flight, with all ten NASA-trained teachers being sent into space together someday. With Tuesday’s tragic failure and the loss of seven lives, including the young teacher from New Hampshire, Sharon Christa McAuliffe, there is little hope these plans will ever materialize. Markey admitted that her students’ enthusiasm for the space program seemed to melt with the events that transpired shortly after 11:38 a.m. Tuesday. Her voice reflected the pall hanging over her class when she revealed: “After this, the children don’t want to be astronauts.” She continued, “I told them, that’s just like saying you’ll never drive a car again because you’ve seen a car accident.” But her voice, still betrayed her as she added: “It was a horrible thing to happen.” The children felt her pain. They immediately wrote her little notes and dropped them on her desk. Some said “I hope you feel better soon.” or “I’m sorry it happened.” Young Astronauts on hold This week the children had been filling out “ applications,” explaining why they would like to be part of the space program, why they would like to go into space. “Now, they’ve changed their minds,” she said. As a result, the Young Astronaut program, sparked by Esther Markey’s vitality, may be stalled. “I don’t know how much cooperation I’d get at the moment,” she admitted. She said she had wanted to inaugurate the program as a continuation of the math and science programs she begins with fourth graders. In the past, the teacher continued math and science courses in the fifth grades, (Turn to Page 3) P S I f Ë H » Esther Markey, John Beck science teacher, displays the model space shuttle she brought back from her summer study trip (1985) to Florida, designed for teachers interested in learning more about the NASA program. ' ..... ........... .. ........... . t Local student witnesses explosion By Linda A. Harris While Lititz residents heard of Tuesday’s shuttle disaster from radio, television, friends or strangers on the street, Jennifer Foulk, 326 E. Second Ave., was watching the liftoff from the yard of her apartment near the Florida Institute of Technology campus, just about 20 miles from the launch site. She spoke by phone with her mother shortly after the explosion and with her mother and father later that night. Shaken in the first few hours, she didn’t say much about how she felt or what she saw. During the evening call, she told her parents she “saw billows of smoke...and then, debris falling into the ocean.” She said that reactions in the entire area which is mostly space-related industry, was “shock, disbelief and then, sadness. ’ ’ Jennifer, who skipped her senior year at Warwick to enter FIT as a freshman this year, lost her television to thieves about two months ago. After it was apparent that the shuttle had indeed exploded in flight, she went to a friend’s home to watch television and to learn what she could about the tragedy. She told her parents that there were a number of memorial services already planned in the area as the space community pulled together in its grief. Jennifer herself had a special interest in the shuttle program...she and a number of her fellow students had been accepted into the NASA-FIT work-study program at the Cape. She had been scheduled to begin the program in a shuttle-related area in March. “She’s very concerned now that the program will be pushed back until after all the investigations are completed,” her mother noted. During a June interview at her parents home, Jennifer said “it might be fun to go on a shuttle someday...I haven’t ruled that out.” She noted that she’s had an interest in flying since early childhood and that an astronomy course had really helped focused her career sights on the stars. She picked FIT because it is one of the few schools in the U.S. to offer space science majors. Jennifer has decided that working in the space field, particularly in the technological side, is what she wants to do after graduating. Nitrates under study Lititz Borough Council Tuesday night formed a citizen council to investigate the growing nitrate level in borough water and possible solutions. Council member Russell Pettyjohn brought up the subject and expressed concern that nitrate levels continue to be hight. Director of Public Services, David Anderson, told council that nitrate levels have increased steadily over the last several years from about 10 milligrams per liter (or 10 parts per million) in 1980 to the curent level of 15- 16 milligrams per liter. Anderson said the state Environmental Protection Agency mandates that m u n ic ip a litie s warn residents when nitrate levels reach the 10 millileter level. The borough includes a standard warning on every water and sewer bill. It advises residents that children under the age of six months should not consume borough water. Anderson said scientific evidence is not conclusive as to the nature or level of the danger and that water would have to be consumed in extremely high quantities for it to be a problem. However, he said the bo ro u g h h as been monitoring the nitrate levels for years and agreed that a committee should inv e stig a te a lte rn a tiv e solutions. He warned that any solution would be expensive. Anderson said the committee should also take into consideration the amount of water actually consumed as compared to water that is used for other purposes in the house. He said the cost of filtering water that is not used for drinking may not be cost effective in the long run. N itra te s levels are generally higher in farming communities where fertilizers and manure are spread on fields and eventually absorbed into the groundwater, Anderson explained. He said the highest levels generally come in the spring after the fields have been fertilized and the heavy spring rains wash some of the fertilizer directly into streams. Mike Brubaker, 212 S. Spruce St., who was present in the audience, asked if there was a permissible upper limit to nitrates where the water would be unsafe for all consumers. Anderson replied he didn’t know of any established limit. Council president Clyde Tshudy asked Brubaker, who explained he worked for a firm that did nitrate testing, if he would be interested in working on the committee and lending his expertise. He agreed to do so. The council named the committee the Ad Hoc Clean Water Commitee directed borough manager Sue Barry to ask several other residents with expertise in the field to serve on the In this issue Editorial 4 Sports Section 5,8,9,10 Social 12 Business Directory 14 Manheim 15 Business Update 16 Classified 17,18,19
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Full Text | r T H E B E B E S S SERCI\C THE WARWICK AREA EOR MORE THA\ A CEMTl'RY 109th Year ESTABLISHED APRIL 1877 AS THFSUNBt AM Lititz, Lancaster County PA, 17543. Thursday, CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD 1937 ’ J f January3 30,'1986 25 CENTS A COPY. $8.50 PER YEAR BY MAIL WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 20 Pages-No. 43 Boro council questions Huber subdivision plans A preliminary plan for the Huber tract just north of Lititz borough brought considerable discussion among borough council members and several citizens at Tuesday night’s meeting. The property is located east of the intersection of East Newport and Brun-nerville roads. Randy Wright of J. C. Engineering brought the plan before council as a courtesy, at the request of the Warwick Township Supervisors. Wright told council that he would also be submitting the plan to the Lititz Planning Commission for its comments. That step is usually done first, but Wright explained that he wanted to get both council’s and the planning commission’s comments by the township supervisors Feb. 12 meeting. The proposed subdivision, to be known as Quail Ridge, will contain 234 units on 31.33 acres, Wright said. Of those units, 96 will be apartments with the balance as townhouses. He said the former farmhouse will be sold on a larger lot as a single-family dwelling. The southern property line of the tract follows the borough’s northern boundary that that point. Wright said the apartments will be in three clusters, with one accessed off of East Newport Road and the other two off of Brunnerville Road. Cardinal Road will be extended from the Fair Meadows development to the south through Quail Ridge and connect with Newport Road, Wright said. Wright also said that a landscape screen would be installed between the proposed development and the existing single-family d ev e lo pm e n t (F a ir Meadows) to the east, as mandated by the Warwick Township zoning ordinance. Council member David Bucher questioned Wright about the increase of storm water which would flow into Lititz borough. C o u n cilman Donald Stauffer told Wright that the possibility of increased runoff “ sca red him” because “in the last seven to eight years we finally got the water problem in that part of the borough stabliszed. ’ ’ Stauffer said that it “now looks like we might have problems kicking up again.” Wright assured the council that the township’s engineer had examined the storm water runoff figures and found the planned storm water management system adequate for the area. Wright said the township’s new sto rm w a te r management ordinance s tric tly d etails th a t development of a property cannot increase the storm water runnoff. Stauffer said he would like to see the borough’s engineer examine the figures as well. I r o n ic a lly , both municipalities use the same engineering firm, Huth Engineers. The question of increased traffic was also raised. Staffer wanted to know if there were plans for a traffic light at the Brunnerville and Newport Road intersections. Wright said not that he was not aware of any and that since it was a state road, it would be a state decision. A resident in the audience questioned what number of additional cars could be expected to go through the borough because of this developement. Council members said to “figure on two cars per household, or about 500 cars.” Another resident said the traffic would probably come down Cedar and out Lincoln to Broad, which would make that roads very heavily traveled. Council member Russell Pettyjohn pointed out that at some time Oak Street will be finished through the Fair Meadows development so that it will bring some traffic around Lititz by way of Second Avenue. Pettyjohn also asked Wright if Warwick Township planned to ask for water from the borough for the development. Wright said, “I wasn’t going to ask tonight, but I’m aware we will need to ask. ’ ’ Council president, Clyde Tshudy, asked if that request could be honored under the (Turn to Page 3) Two college students spend semester in England by Kathleen King Kim Garrett and Brian Roth have several things in common. They both graduated from Warwick High School in 1981. They both graduated from Kutztown University Dec. 21.And they both spent the last semester of their college career at Crewe & Alsager College. The most common reaction to such a statement might be the question - “Where in the world is Crewe & Alsager College?” In England, to be exact. Not a surprising question, though. If one was a student at Crewe & Alsager College, one might ask a similar question - “Where in the world is Kutztown University?” But actually, many of the students at Kutztown and Crewe & Alsager actually know that each other exist, because of a special exchange program th a t enables students at one college to spend a semester at the other college. And that is exactly what Brian Roth and Kim Garrett did, along with 25 or so other Kutztown students. Although many last semester seniors might be wrapped up in a search for employment or graduate school, Brian and Kim had other things on their mind. There’d always be time to find a job. There wouldn’t always be time, or an opportunity, to be a student at a European university. “I wanted to broaden myself,” Kim explains about her decision to take the semester program. Brian agreed, adding that such a program, he thought, “would help me put America and Americans in perspective.” The Kutztown students left home on Sept. 3. They spent two days in London, then split into smaller groups and traveled on their own for the next three weeks throughout continental Europe. Like many Americans abroad for the first time, Brian, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Roth, 205 S. Locust St., said he was surprised at how many Europeans knew English. “Languages here should be m an d a to ry ,” Kim believes. “And at younger ages — in elementary school.” She said she tried Spanish in high school but “didn’t like it.” She feels if she had taken a language at a younger age, it would have been more interesting and easier, as well. In spite of a lack of fluency in another language, Kim said she managed to communicate and told of an incident on a train from Venice to Austria. “There were two Italian boys. I think there were cadettes at a military school or something. They could only speak broken English,” she explained. Kim said she started drawing pictures - of' the United States and where Lititz was. They did the same. “For 45 minutes we communicated by pictures,” she recalled with a shake of her head. “ It was fascinating.” Both Brian and Kim thought that college students in England were treated on a more mature level than here in the United States. They both agreed that the classes demanded more intellectual re sp o n se and more responsibility on the part of the student. “Here they spoon feed you,” Brian said. Kim, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Garrett, 815 Diston View Drive, agreed. “In England it’s up to the student to go and find out the answers to things. Here they tend to give you a lot of the stuff,” Both noticed a lack of quizzes and tests at their English college. But since they were only at the college for one semester they did not get to experience the demanding finals, the tutorials, that all English students dread so much. Brian said the English students who come to Brian Roth and Kim Garrett (Turn to Page 3) One of Esther Markey's prized possessions is this shot of Discovery, Challenger’s sister shuttle, on its launch pad. Science teacher reassures students following Tuesday’s Shuttle explosion by Bonnie Szymanski Esther Markey, fourth-grade science teacher at John Beck Elementary School was going to start a Young Astronaut chapter at her school. She had spent two weeks this past summer participating in a program for science teachers at the F lo r id a I n s titu te of Technology and Kennedy Space Center. She had studied space, rocketry, astronomy and aeronautics with NASA instructors and had returned to the classroom full of enthusiasm for the space program and for the ideas she planned to incorporate into the Young Astronauts program. Tuesday, following the tragic explosion of the space shuttle Challenger moments after lift-off, Markey told the Record: “I’m going to have to think about it now.” “There’s a big lump in my insides,” she admitted, noting that she and some of her students had not watched the lift-off, assuming it would be delayed. They had been watching the televised preparations earlier that morning, said Markey, and concluded that the shuttle wasn’t going to be launched. The set was turned off and the students began other activities. It was only when some released-time students began returning from classes that the teacher heard that the launch had taken place. Shocked by what she was hearing, she turned the television on again, only to discover that the Challenger had exploded in a gigantic fireball an estimated nine miles above the earth. When the television reports confirmed what had moments before been only rumors, “there was just silence; we couldn’t believe it,” said the teacher, still speaking with difficulty, obviously attempting to maintain her composure about a loss she considered almost a personal one. A special friendship On Oct. 25, Richard Methia, one of the nine semi-finalists in the teacher-inspace program, came to Lititz to speak with John Beck students at the invitation of Esther Markey. The two had met as a result of their mutual interest in the teacher-space program and Markey’s involvement in the summer program in Forida. Markey had received a personal invitation from NASA to watch Challenger’s launch. “I was really thrilled to be invited, but after thinking about it, decided that delays in the launch were a possibility and so I had to decline. “All the semi-finalists were there, watching,” reported Markey. She said she would probably be speaking with Methia in the near future. During his October visit, he had told the students about a plan for a possible group flight, with all ten NASA-trained teachers being sent into space together someday. With Tuesday’s tragic failure and the loss of seven lives, including the young teacher from New Hampshire, Sharon Christa McAuliffe, there is little hope these plans will ever materialize. Markey admitted that her students’ enthusiasm for the space program seemed to melt with the events that transpired shortly after 11:38 a.m. Tuesday. Her voice reflected the pall hanging over her class when she revealed: “After this, the children don’t want to be astronauts.” She continued, “I told them, that’s just like saying you’ll never drive a car again because you’ve seen a car accident.” But her voice, still betrayed her as she added: “It was a horrible thing to happen.” The children felt her pain. They immediately wrote her little notes and dropped them on her desk. Some said “I hope you feel better soon.” or “I’m sorry it happened.” Young Astronauts on hold This week the children had been filling out “ applications,” explaining why they would like to be part of the space program, why they would like to go into space. “Now, they’ve changed their minds,” she said. As a result, the Young Astronaut program, sparked by Esther Markey’s vitality, may be stalled. “I don’t know how much cooperation I’d get at the moment,” she admitted. She said she had wanted to inaugurate the program as a continuation of the math and science programs she begins with fourth graders. In the past, the teacher continued math and science courses in the fifth grades, (Turn to Page 3) P S I f Ë H » Esther Markey, John Beck science teacher, displays the model space shuttle she brought back from her summer study trip (1985) to Florida, designed for teachers interested in learning more about the NASA program. ' ..... ........... .. ........... . t Local student witnesses explosion By Linda A. Harris While Lititz residents heard of Tuesday’s shuttle disaster from radio, television, friends or strangers on the street, Jennifer Foulk, 326 E. Second Ave., was watching the liftoff from the yard of her apartment near the Florida Institute of Technology campus, just about 20 miles from the launch site. She spoke by phone with her mother shortly after the explosion and with her mother and father later that night. Shaken in the first few hours, she didn’t say much about how she felt or what she saw. During the evening call, she told her parents she “saw billows of smoke...and then, debris falling into the ocean.” She said that reactions in the entire area which is mostly space-related industry, was “shock, disbelief and then, sadness. ’ ’ Jennifer, who skipped her senior year at Warwick to enter FIT as a freshman this year, lost her television to thieves about two months ago. After it was apparent that the shuttle had indeed exploded in flight, she went to a friend’s home to watch television and to learn what she could about the tragedy. She told her parents that there were a number of memorial services already planned in the area as the space community pulled together in its grief. Jennifer herself had a special interest in the shuttle program...she and a number of her fellow students had been accepted into the NASA-FIT work-study program at the Cape. She had been scheduled to begin the program in a shuttle-related area in March. “She’s very concerned now that the program will be pushed back until after all the investigations are completed,” her mother noted. During a June interview at her parents home, Jennifer said “it might be fun to go on a shuttle someday...I haven’t ruled that out.” She noted that she’s had an interest in flying since early childhood and that an astronomy course had really helped focused her career sights on the stars. She picked FIT because it is one of the few schools in the U.S. to offer space science majors. Jennifer has decided that working in the space field, particularly in the technological side, is what she wants to do after graduating. Nitrates under study Lititz Borough Council Tuesday night formed a citizen council to investigate the growing nitrate level in borough water and possible solutions. Council member Russell Pettyjohn brought up the subject and expressed concern that nitrate levels continue to be hight. Director of Public Services, David Anderson, told council that nitrate levels have increased steadily over the last several years from about 10 milligrams per liter (or 10 parts per million) in 1980 to the curent level of 15- 16 milligrams per liter. Anderson said the state Environmental Protection Agency mandates that m u n ic ip a litie s warn residents when nitrate levels reach the 10 millileter level. The borough includes a standard warning on every water and sewer bill. It advises residents that children under the age of six months should not consume borough water. Anderson said scientific evidence is not conclusive as to the nature or level of the danger and that water would have to be consumed in extremely high quantities for it to be a problem. However, he said the bo ro u g h h as been monitoring the nitrate levels for years and agreed that a committee should inv e stig a te a lte rn a tiv e solutions. He warned that any solution would be expensive. Anderson said the committee should also take into consideration the amount of water actually consumed as compared to water that is used for other purposes in the house. He said the cost of filtering water that is not used for drinking may not be cost effective in the long run. N itra te s levels are generally higher in farming communities where fertilizers and manure are spread on fields and eventually absorbed into the groundwater, Anderson explained. He said the highest levels generally come in the spring after the fields have been fertilized and the heavy spring rains wash some of the fertilizer directly into streams. Mike Brubaker, 212 S. Spruce St., who was present in the audience, asked if there was a permissible upper limit to nitrates where the water would be unsafe for all consumers. Anderson replied he didn’t know of any established limit. Council president Clyde Tshudy asked Brubaker, who explained he worked for a firm that did nitrate testing, if he would be interested in working on the committee and lending his expertise. He agreed to do so. The council named the committee the Ad Hoc Clean Water Commitee directed borough manager Sue Barry to ask several other residents with expertise in the field to serve on the In this issue Editorial 4 Sports Section 5,8,9,10 Social 12 Business Directory 14 Manheim 15 Business Update 16 Classified 17,18,19 |
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