7/24/2023 0 Comments Somerset morning sentinelSylvia said the money will also go toward water main cleaning and relining. Sylvia said the pumping station will also improve water pressure for those who live near the area and for fire fighting. Pumping station to improve water pressure He said this station will keep the water fresh and reduce aging, a measure that will also prevent TTHM buildup. The $5.8 million will go toward construction of a new pumping station. Sylvia said that officials will only use one tank and keep it at a lower level. He says when the water becomes old and stagnant, the TTHM levels will spike. Sylvia said there are two water tanks at Hot and Cold Lane. Sylvia explained that town water officials mostly keep TTHMs at reasonable levels, but the levels “creep above” the state-approved threshold at times – especially during periods of low water flow.Īnother app: Jasiel Correia II's SnoOwl app led to him going to prison. The board has looked at several other options to deal with the TTHM problem,” Sylvia told selectmen. “But nothing is iron clad,” Sylvia said, adding that the state Department of Environmental Protection has given the town a March 31 deadline to resolve the TTHM issue. Sylvia said that his department has applied for a $4 million state grant and if the town secures the grant, it would use the grant to pay for most of the $5,885,000 loan. 22 meeting will be asked to approve $5,885,000 for a loan to fight trihalomethanes, a carcinogen, as well as for other related water quality issues. Water and Sewer Department Superintendent Paul Sylvia told the Select Board recently that special Town Meeting voters at the Aug. Otherwise, few people would know today that some federal troops camped out on the Washington & Jefferson College campus when they came to the region in 1794 to quash the rebellion, he said.SOMERSET - The Water and Sewer Department is looking for voter approval on Aug 22 for a long-term solution to the town water’s contamination problem. Kilgore said most importantly, the story of the rebellion has survived. It was where Cook and Gallatin met to discuss the direction of the rebellion. Edward Cook house, dating to 1772 in the Mon Valley, also is still standing and occupied by his descendants. Another one of them has since been documented on Plantation Plenty in Independence Township. Necciai said a survey in 1991 determined only one whiskey distillery used during the tax revolt survived, and it’s located on the Huffman Farm in Somerset Township. The stone house would not have survived had not civic leaders stepped in to raise money to rehabilitate it in the 1960s. by attorney David Bradford, who was a leader of the rebellion. The Bradford House was built in 1788 at 175 S. McFarlane was given a hero’s burial there after being killed in the raid on Neville’s house. James McFarlane and several other Mingo rebels. Mingo Cemetery along Route 88 in Union Township is another landmark associated with the rebellion. The Virginia gentry-style house is the only one of its kind in the region and believed to be the oldest building constructed as a home in Allegheny County. “That’s the only site that is telling that federal side of the story,” Kilgore said. Historians believe Woodville survived because it was where the women, children and slaves sought safety during the raid. John Neville later built a larger, nearby house that was burned to the ground when the rebels raided the property in a tax revolt in 1794. It was built in 1775 Neville, the tax collector, and later given to his son, Presley. Woodville Plantation near Bridgeville is among the landmarks connected to the rebellion that still survives. “Your nearest neighbor could have been miles away,” Kilgore said. Turning back the clock in Southwestern Pennsylvania to the late 18th century, one would have found a number of small settlements in a vast forest. The building was long ago torn down, Kilgore said. Some people think the log house built by Tom the Tinker, who was eventually identified as farmer John Hollcroft, is still occupied in Union Township. The farmers in Southwestern Pennsylvania turned to making whiskey from the grain they produced because it was more profitable than the earnings from hauling grain over the mountains to Philadelphia. He was known to shoot holes in the stills of farmers who paid the tax enacted enacted to pay down the debt from the Revolutionary War. The “tar” is actually a concoction of melted chocolate and molasses, but Tom the Tinker and his men were not so kind. “We’ve had a steady increase,” said Kilgore, a festival organizer who also has portrayed the infamous Tom the Tinker during re-enactments of the rebels covering a tax collector with tar and feathers.
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