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homenewspa.com Earth Day Clean-up in Bath on Sat., April 20 By BILL HALBFOERSTER The Home News
The fourth annual Earth Day Clean-up is scheduled for Saturday, April 20 in Bath, Councilwoman Jennifer George announced on Monday at Borough Council meeting. Volunteers will meet at the Keystone Park gazebo, Race & Green Sts., with the cleanup lasting from 9 to 11 a.m. Volunteers are asked to bring rakes and shovels or whatever is useful in a clean-up project at the parks and other places in the borough. After the work is done, there will be free hot dogs and soda for the volunteers. If there is inclement weather, the rain date will be the following Saturday, April 27 at the same time. Other Matters • In a weather -related issue, Fire Chief Ed Demchak on Monday asked that resi-
dents clear areas in front of fire hydrants should there be any significant snowfall in the remaining days of winter. This would be very helpful to Bath Firefighters if there is any type of fire emergency. • Borough Manager Tom Petrucci earlier received a check for $2,000 from the Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce Foundation, which is going toward the purchase of new playground equipment. • Council okayed a resolution authorizing Petrucci to submit a grant application for the Northampton County Park Acquisition & Development Program. The grant would be of $2,600, with the NEW STORAGE TANK on Holiday Hill in Bath has a capacity of 547,000 gallons of water to serve – Home News photo borough contributing $1,300. Bath and East Allen areas. The recreation committee will discuss what parks need to be upgraded, and first in their minds on Monday was Carl Rehrig Park at the top of HoliContinued on page 7
Australian author to visit Bath Lions Cheer Team
The popular Australian children's book author, Leanne Shea Langdown, will return to Northampton and Bath, Pennsylvania to visit with schools and cheer teams regarding her latest book series, "Cheer Chick Charlie." Leanne visited the Bath Lions cheerleading squad in
2007, and was touched by the team's kind and welcoming spirit. This inspired her to bring cheerleading back to her hometown in Canberra, Australia where she started that state's first school based cheer team and later created Continued on page 5
No Rate Increase in Bath Authority’s 2013 Budget; Water Capacity Near Double sory for those Holiday Hill customers. It was the first such advisory ever issued by the Authority since its inception in 1953. Agreement Signed Gasper also announced that the Bath Borough Authority and East Allen Township have signed an agreement whereby East Allen sewerage customers along the Route 512 corridor (Chrisphalt Drive, Greenbriar Village, and Arcadia Industrial Park) and the village of Jacksonville will be direct customers of the Bath Borough Authority. With that agreement in place, the Authority will be responsible for maintaining the sewerage pump stations and sewerage lines, billing customers directly, and treating the sewage at the plant in Bath. The Authority has been providing sewage treatment
services to these customers. In other developments, the Bath Borough Authority is negotiating with the City of Bethlehem to continue providing water service to the customers that are sewerage customers in the Route 512 corridor. The Authority is presently providing water to those customers. In addition, the Authority is continuing to develop plans, including the pursuit of financing options, to construct a new sewage treatment plant.
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At their December meeting, the Bath Borough Authority adopted its 2013 budget without a rate increase. Chairman George Gasper said one of the biggest accomplishments in 2012 was the replacement of an existing steel storage tank on Holiday Hill, east of Christmas Ave. While the original water tank had a capacity of 300,000 gallons, the new glass-lined, bolted steel tank has a capacity of 547,000 gallons. During construction of the new tank, a private excavating company doing work in Upper Nazareth Township broke the main water line that feeds customers on Holiday Hill. The company was not performing work for the Authority, Gasper said. The water line breakage required the Authority to issue a DEPmandated “boil water” advi-
INDEX: Cheer Chick Charlie girls help launch book series and celebrate their newly formed squad. - Juzz Photography photo.
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