Lehigh County (11 municipalities)
Catasauqua Borough
Slatington Borough
Whitehall Township
Macungie Township
Upper Milford Township
Salisbury Township
South Whitehall Township
Emmaus Borough
Alburtis Borough
Weisenberg Township
Fountain Hill Borough
Northampton County (19 municipalities)
Lower Saucon Township
Lower Nazareth Township
Hanover Township
Allen Township
Northampton Borough
Walnutport Borough
Bangor Borough
Lower Mt. Bethel Township
Pen Argyl Borough
Freemansburg Borough
Williams Township
East Allen Township
Easton City
Bushkill Township
Plainfield Township
Hellertown Borough
Northampton County
Wind Gap Borough
Forks Township
22 comments:
Amazing! Everyone shits on Wilson Borough, but do you see them on this list? Nope. They got their shit in order!
These two are on the list!
Lower Saucon Township
Lower Nazareth Township
Chapman is a model.
Surprisingly missing is Bethlehem Township. I guess the Santee Road river, whenever it rains hard, is acceptable. Does someone else have to drown for there to be action?
Well for starters, PennDOT had a full winter of salt and cindering and have yet to sweep the major state routes through my municipality. This all ends up in the stormwater system and now we have roads that flood more frequently. I have personally seen PennDOT cleaning storm inlets along Rt248 in front of Giant in Nazareth so I don't want to hear District 5 argument that this is the municipalities’ responsibility.
All municipalites should impose and enforce ordinances that place penalties on blowing cut grass from sidewalks into public streets. It is inconsiderate! Simply blow your grass into your yard on the first pass solves this problem. This debris ends up in public waters. They are the same repeat offenders that would be the first to complain about the cost of public street sweeping.
Amazingly absent are the cities where manhole covers pop and distribute raw sewage during heavy rain events. Granted, not an easy problem to solve,
Did EPA simply target municipalities with high percentage of impervious cover? Are they targeting parking lots that are decades old?
All new parking lots at Steel Stacks and no storm water management. Put a parking lot in Chapman and EPA is going to make you cry uncle.
I think the current rule of massive detention pits for new intersections are excessive and destroys open space.
In the past the goal was controlled release using detention basins. Then there was the philosphy of passing it trhur the waterways as quickly as it enters. Now it seems to be retain and infliltrate onsite.
Bernie should be on this list. If bernie is outside and it rains on him, the runoff is known as pollution. It is worse than Angle's shit he throws on his fields. Bernie has so many diseases he is a walking catastophe waiting to happen. He suffers from everything including but not limited too; crotch rot, athletes feet, creeping crud, (and with a body like Bernies it could destroy the whole Borough),
a bad case of drooping ear lobe, radioactive isonuts (they're huge just ask his critics) excessive ear wax (which caused the drooping ear lobe) and runny nose syndrome. These are the things he will admit too. leaking hemmoroids, and other gastrol illnesses are just to gross to mention here. all that being said, we still love ya Bernie. Keep up the good work.
7:36, I understand Chapman was consulted about what other communities to include.
"Did EPA simply target municipalities with high percentage of impervious cover? Are they targeting parking lots that are decades old?"
Good questions. I am sorry, I have no answer.
9:34, The athlete's foot is gone.
to 8:23
As for the "Santee Road River" take a look upstream and see where the water comes from!! The city of Bethlehem!! Stormwater runs into basins off Butztown Road and East Blvd and is not detained or retained and runs full bore downstream in to the township through the apartments on Santee and then down through Santee Road and across Easton Ave. This is not a Bethlehem Township created problem. But it has created problems in the township!! The upstream area in the city for this drainage area is HUGE and most of the building/development that was done in the city was done prior to storm water controls and management were mandated by the state.
Zoid, Thanks very much for an informative answer.
The real problem is a century ago when horses and buggies clogged our roadways, storm sewers were built to empty into our waterways. Then, came cars and hard surfaces and runoff consisted of oil and grease. The EPA wants these communities to stop emptying runoff in the water ways to the tune of a billion dollars. Yes, the best alternative is to plug the storm sewers and leave the water setting on the roadway. Problem is solved at little cost. Just need to find another route.
There is no mention of the Transformative epicenter of this were the entire rest of the city is neglected? On gordan street in allentown the water flows from the 10th street cemetary to the jordan as if gordan street were a stream?
Now this could be one of two things an engineering malfunktion or all the garbage from said city with no limits to dasterdly deeds done dirt cheap? We will not even get into other areas of that city malfunktion near lehigh and MLK formaly known as Water street?
Engineering outsorced to some corp. that servives under the pay back to way back?
redd
patent pending
There is no Macungie Township. There is Upper and Lower and Macungie Borough. Which ones on the list?
Difficult to believe Bethlehem Township is not on this list. William Penn Highway is like a shore line. The Northampton Country Club golf course tee box near the highway was under casual water from the winter until two weeks ago.
10:58, I only have what the EPA produced. My thought was that it meant Macungie Borough, but you are right. It is confusing.
Some Townships left off the lists may have pro actively adopted stormwater management ordinances and are already implementing measures recommended by PA DEP. I think Upper Saucon adopted one of these ordinances and I see they are not on the Lehigh County list. This may explain Bethlehem Twp.
Another Unfunded Mandate to budgets that already can't support the basic functions of the area they tax from.
Some are using this new mandate to waive sidewalk installations especially on new development. If my child is struck by a vehicle as a result of a sidewalk waiver being granted. I would sue the elected officials that voted for the waiver. Hold them accountable.
Big government sticking it to the little government with its unfunded mandates. Why as a local taxpayer do I have to pay for some stupid paperwork to be submitted to the Federal Government. Why doesn't the federal government do this work!! Another federal tax increase and restrictions on our lives be forced upon us and forced upon our local tax dollars to pay for! This is bull shit!
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