Municipalities in Schuylkill County fared well with the initial distribution of H20 funds. About $17 million went to help rehabilitate the Mount Laurel, Kauffman, Indian Run, Lower Owl Creek and Upper Owl Creek dams.
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Be Productive to Us
Or if they are all Resevoirs
The H20 program targets almost 800 dams considered high-hazard because they pose a threat to downstream populations in the event of a failure.
Another 50 dams are classified as unsafe because of structural problems such as inadequate spillways. Twenty-one of these dams are in eight Northeast Pennsylvania counties.
The H20 program is designed to aid projects undertaken by municipalities and municipal authorities, but lawmakers made a special exception for a dam in Tobyhanna Township owned by the Minsi Trails Boy Scouts.
The authorization will enable the council to obtain $1.5 million in H20 funds for the Stillwater Dam, said Rep. Mike Carroll, D-118, Hughestown. The exception was made because Camp Minsi draws scouts form throughout eastern Pennsylvania, he said.
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Not Sure IF Any of these Could
Be Productive to Us
Or if they are all Resevoirs
The H20 program targets almost 800 dams considered high-hazard because they pose a threat to downstream populations in the event of a failure.
Another 50 dams are classified as unsafe because of structural problems such as inadequate spillways. Twenty-one of these dams are in eight Northeast Pennsylvania counties.
The H20 program is designed to aid projects undertaken by municipalities and municipal authorities, but lawmakers made a special exception for a dam in Tobyhanna Township owned by the Minsi Trails Boy Scouts.
The authorization will enable the council to obtain $1.5 million in H20 funds for the Stillwater Dam, said Rep. Mike Carroll, D-118, Hughestown. The exception was made because Camp Minsi draws scouts form throughout eastern Pennsylvania, he said.
http://www.republicanherald.com/news/more_slots_money_for_dam_repairs
