posted by Joe Polk at 2:06 PM /
After hearing from residents who live near the municipality's mulch facility at Robb Hollow Park, commissioners last week took a look at the operation.
Some residents of Pinewood Drive have complained about the smell of decomposing organic material as well as noise from the grinders.
Residents can pile raked leaves at the curb. They are then collected and taken to the mulching facility. Compost materials are also stored at the public golf course.
Commissioners were presented with a study that indicated the current operation costs the municipality $174,595, which includes public works costs such as wages, equipment and overtime.
Tom Kelley, public works director, presented four alternatives. One would have residents bag leaves, which would then be picked up by Allied Waste Management. The cost is estimated at $205,574, according to John Daley, president of the commissioners.
Two other options would involve taking the collected leaves out of the municipality. Another option would involve keeping Robb Hollow and the golf course sites in use to a lesser degree and establishing a third processing site on McNeilly Road property owned by Mt. Lebanon. The estimated cost of this option would be more than $500,000. No action was taken.
Link: www.post-gazette.com/pg/09266/1000062-55.stm
Some residents of Pinewood Drive have complained about the smell of decomposing organic material as well as noise from the grinders.
Residents can pile raked leaves at the curb. They are then collected and taken to the mulching facility. Compost materials are also stored at the public golf course.
Commissioners were presented with a study that indicated the current operation costs the municipality $174,595, which includes public works costs such as wages, equipment and overtime.
Tom Kelley, public works director, presented four alternatives. One would have residents bag leaves, which would then be picked up by Allied Waste Management. The cost is estimated at $205,574, according to John Daley, president of the commissioners.
Two other options would involve taking the collected leaves out of the municipality. Another option would involve keeping Robb Hollow and the golf course sites in use to a lesser degree and establishing a third processing site on McNeilly Road property owned by Mt. Lebanon. The estimated cost of this option would be more than $500,000. No action was taken.
Link: www.post-gazette.com/pg/09266/1000062-55.stm
Labels: mulch, public works, robb hollow park
1 Comments:
What was the final resolution of the Pinewood neighbors claim more than a month ago that the composting in nearby Robb Hollow Park violated state and/or county law(s) regulating composting ?
What were the results of both county inspections ? The first, or initial, determined that there were minor infractions. A second inspection was to be more intensive.
A portion of the overall site was a former girls softball field that was disbanded because it allegedly "was not used much cause it was hard to get to". With fields in such short supply, the local field sports organizations should petition for its reinstatement and move the *violating* composting to the golf course site and stop accepting Scott Twp. leaves at the Robb Hollow siteas well.
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