Wellsboro Gazette (Newspaper) - July 7, 1982, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania Putnam Officials Withhold Support of River Project THE WELLSBORO Per Copy The Putnam Township Super- visors William Grover Cleveland and Claude nave advised Donald Lindsey of that they are declining sup port of the proposed Upper Tioga River Watershed Project plan as presented in 1982. The Upper Tioga River shed proposal involves a plan to provide diking and flood proofing or relocation for some property owners located along the Tioga River from Hamilton Township to Richmond Local would then be The supervisors stated that the cost is prohibitive in regard to Putnam Township's financial local of the The Supervisors contend that a recent survey of Putnam's dents indicated that a majority were against the plan because it would leave the vicinity open to periodic Lindsey agreed with many of the points made by the supervisors in their letter stating that they still do the present dikes could be the river could be rip rap installed along the banks and a preventative Lindsey said that no federal funding is available to do the type of work suggested by the super- is very expensive to get involved in that type of operation and we are not permitted to get involved in such a project under Public Law 566. If the Supervisors had the money to pay for such work on their own which would be are the Supervisors of Putnam and Richmond Blossburg Borough Councilmen and the Tioga County The last public meeting was held June 10 con- project before it was to be sent to D C for officials approval According to the letter to the plan calls for the relocating of one two commercial properties and the of 16 homes in the high risk flood zone within the In the supervisors state in their the plan calls for the relocation of one business and the ing of 25 two mobile homes and three commercial The total cost for both the high and low risk zone plans is and the projected 20% local share of the cost project response to the Wellsboro Man 2 Others Hurt Three men were attempting to take down a 30-foot sion antenna mounted on a metal pole at the Phil son a mobile home located adjacent to the son Trucking Route 6, Charleston at proximately p.m. July 7. As the three men removed the antenna pole from a pipe buried in the the wind caught the antenna and threw it into a 7200-volt electric power throwing all three about 15 They were ing on the ground when the cident Dr. James L. Wilson ed to the scene as did two Wellsboro Fire Department Taken to Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital were Keith 22 of RD 3, and 29, of RD 6, Box 22, Montgomery was pronounced dead on Tioga County Coroner Dr. son said Montgomery died of electrical Mead was admitted to the hospital for observation and with burns on his He was reported by hospital personnel as being in stable Although the bottom of Phil Anderson's feet were blistered and holes had been burned in his he refused medical The accident occurred just as another Bruce stopped to help the trio with the Hunter told the Gazette that he had just ar- rived at the scene and had not yet had time to touch the pole when the mishap occurred He immediately called emergency personnel for assistance first paragraph in the letter which be advised that the Supervisors of Putnam Town of senting the residents of said com- have no alternative but to decline support ofthe proposed Upper Tioga River Watershed Plan for our district under the present conditions for Flood Proofing and Relocating as posed on 1982." sey do have an alternative They could go along with the proposal and say they are not going to put any money toward it. Then individuals involved in the project area could decide whether or not to pay the 20% of the cost involved for their lar property It would cost the township absolutely This is a totally voluntary program for the individual property owners involved but it is necessary that the township supervisors give their approval to continue Lindsey also stressed that ently other agencies are being approached to see if they would be willing to pay the local share of the cost meaning there is a good possibility that the townships would never have to pay toward the Upper Tioga River Watershed In the second paragraph ofthe Lindsey noted that the supervisors have said that low risk zone property is included in proposal is and he total local share cited in the letter is then in error because the actual estimated local 20% share for Putnam not The supervisors suggested in their letter to Lindsey that in- stead of implementing the plan as than following the Upper Tioga River Watershed proposal for some relocation and flood ing which a local share estimated at they would have to get permits to enter the River from the Department of En- turn to page 2) 107TH YEAR NO. 33 JULY 7, 1982 674-120) Engineering Firm Drops 2 Sewage Plan Proposals IS Gough Attends FBI Retraining Session Wellsboro Police Chief Michael Gough was among 500 FBI emy graduates and agents who at- tended 1982 Section IV ing Session for Federal Bureau of Investigation Nation emy Associates held June 27-30 in Niagara at the Hilton Hotel and Niagara Falls tion Section IV covers eleven states including Pennsylvania and ern Gough graduated with honors from the Academy's 100th session held in 1975. The 12-week program is a comprehensive and physical training tion retraining is offered once ery four The topic of the conference was psychological profiling of the lent Work sessions were conducted from 8 a.m. to 5 p m. each day by Special Agent John Douglas of the FBI Academy Be- Science Dr. Lowell forensic gave a lecture on bite marks dence in connection with Also speaking during the con- ference was the Director of the William H. Webster and eral law enforcement officials from Niagara Falls and Shelly Taynton Killed In Williamsport Store Robbery Shelly Lyn 21. of RD 2, Middlebury was shot and killed during a robbery at the Uni- a convenience store located at West Third and Hepburn shortly a m. on July 5. Williamsport police arrested a man about an hour after the ing and charged him with the Held in Lycoming County Prison is David L 25. of 50 North Front charged with one count each of and third degree and ing a firearm without a license Miss a 1979 graduate of the Wellsboro Area Senior High School and a senior at Mansfield State was living with her sister Kelly at 1531 Park having just started her summer employment at the one day before the in- cident Miss the daughter of Robert Jr of RD 2. Mid- Center and Sandra Turner of was SEEN FROM DOWNTOWN WELLSBORO In the photo at left the lunar is seen at a.m. July 6. The hazy area around the moon appeared as a light redish In the photo at right progression toward total eclipse is almost complete This was the longest total lunar eclipse 18591astingabout 1% hours As the earth passes between the sun and the moon its shadow is cast on the face of the moon causing an eclipse Photos by Eaton dead at the scene by coming County Coroner George Gedon Following an Ge- don said that death was caused by multiple ber gun shot wounds to the upper According to his she was shot three times in the chest and twice in the back causing most instantaneous death Gedon said that there appeared to be no resistance to the but wounds in her hands she was apparently trying to protect Williamsport after re- a tip from a cab company apprehended Sohmer as he was leaving the Genetti coming Hotel at about am Police reportedly found a ber spent and loose money in a satchel Sohmer was carrying and two stained bills in his pocket Re- ports indicate that approximately was taken from the the amount of money usually used for the store's opening change Sohmer was arraigned before District Magistrate Dean Dawes and held in the Lycoming Prison without pending further police A ary hearing has been scheduled before District Justice John Dermott for July 13 at 9 a m. Funeral services were held m Wellsboro today for Miss Taynton She would have returned to field State College in the fall as a senior majoring in mathematics While in she was active in intramural and was a member of a local bowling team As a student in the Wellsboro high she was active in and a member of the National Honor the yearbook the Foreign dent the student and Treasurer ofthe French Club No Traffic Deaths Reported in June Mansfield State Police Cpl John M. Toner reports that during the month of 1982 there were 34 accidents reported in- three hit and with 24 persons but none fatally This is the second month in a row that there has not been a fatal cident in Tioga State Police at Mansfield also issued 271 traffic citations and 140 written During a total of 76 of- fenses were with 74 of them being In a tal of 41 offenses were and 60 criminal arrests were The value of recovered len property was 1 Russ Tatman of Tatman Lee told the Gazette July 7, that two of the five alternative sewage treatment plans have been dropped from consideration for Wellsboro by the firm based on economic The cost hike to Wellsboro residents to implement any of the three re- maining plans has dropped from a high of 110% to If the boro Municipal Authority is in attempts to get the state Department of Environmental Resources and the federal Environmental Protection cy to pay 75% of the cost of the original Chester of the cost increase of a new system to citizens would drop again to Wellsboro's consulting en- are working toward ing a public recommendation of one of the sewage treatment alternatives at a public meeting set for July 14 at 8 p.m. at the Senior High School It had originally been indicated that depending on which of the five plans was recommended that the cost increase would range from 75% to Ofthe five plans presented at a June 16 public through has now narrowed the field to three alternative plans including deep aerated oxidation ditch and aerated Tatman are ing the upgrading of the existing trickling filter sewage treatment plant at Tioga from consideration for economic sons caused by the need for more manpower to operate that plant we are eliminating from consideration the ing batch reactors because this type of treatment would require a higher level of instrumentation and controls resulting in the need for highly qualified technical people to operate that batch reactor treatment would require the installation of three or four large holding tanks or construction of water would be introduced to one tank or lagoon and held there ing Ofthe remaining three tives still under the aerated would re- quire the purchase of land in mar In this a combination of lagoons and lands would be Land de- termined to be uniquely suited for this project is located near boro Junction in Delmar In the deep aerated pond deep ponds would have to be constructed for this tive treatment process which com- bines standard aeration ponds with sludge The bottom portion ofthe pond digests solids while the top portion is used to introduce oxygen to purify the This type of system may be able to be handled on land owned by the Wellsboro Municipal ity and the Borough within the town's but could re- sult in the necessity of purchasing additional The third remaining alternative is the oxidation ditch process which involves construction of a ditch which resembles a small trenched out horse race track in which wastewater would late during Tatman looks now since we've refined our that selection of any of the three remaining alternative tems will result in a cost increase to users of no more than He noted that the cost increase of upgrading the existing sewage treatment plant would have been Four full-time people would have been needed at the plant where the borough has one full-time and one part-time son working there In the case of the sequencing batch reactor treatment 2 full-time and one part-time son would have been needed to operate because of the level of skill and education the cost would have been very Tatman citizen the Wellsboro Authority and the boro Borough Council both voted to turn down submission to DER of Chester Engineer designed plans calling for construction of a gallon per day mechanical sewage treatment plant That plant was energy in- DIRECTOR of Tioga Association for Recreation and f in the amount ot from Wellsboro Rotary Club President Thomas Rudy for use in promoting the Laurel Festival as a result of a fund raising dinner sponsored by the local Rotary Club tensive and would be one of the largest users of today The Wellsboro Municipal Authority paid to Chester then the consulting for the The Wellsboro Municipal Authority is now actively working toward getting 75% ment of that Mark Wellsboro Project Engineer of Tatman told the Gazette today if the ough could receive 75% on that the cost in- crease of implementing a new sewage system would decrease to about Following the July 14 a public hearing will be held on July 26, during which a formal be made by the Wellsboro Municipal Authority's consulting Tatman and Lee Tnc and then testimony taken con- the proposed plan by in- Following the July 26 public the Wellsboro Municipal Authority and the Wellsboro Bor ough Council will vote on whether or not to submit a grant tion for 75 to 85% federal Environ mental Protection Agency ing of project costs through the Department of Environmental If one of the three alternative plans is a grant tion must be submitted to DER and EPA by August 2 If that line is not it is unlikely that Wellsboro will be in a position to receive federal funds at the 1983. Federal funding of sewage treatment tems is being reduced to 55% imum Oct 1, 1984 Wellsboro Borough is under ders by the Department of En- Resources to grade its sewage treatment system and must comply with recently reed upon effluent limits for its wastewater discharged to Marsh Creek Russ Tatman of Tatman and Lee Associates is very important that citizens attend both the July 14 meeting and the July 26 so they under- stand the implications ofthe ous plans we are proposing and also are aware of all the problems that the borough is facing Tatman stated that results ofthe ongoing sewer system evaluation survey would determine the capacity needs of the sewage treatment plan selected Near Agreement On Charleston School Property Officials of the Williamsport Area Community College met with five members of the Wellsboro Area School District board last Wednesday to discuss a tentative arrangement that would enable the college to establish a satellite campus in the former Charleston Elementary School Both the college meeting this and the local school board will have to give final proval to the proposal as outlined during last week's meeting According to Dr Robert L President of if both boards agree to the a formal agreement could be signed by the end of July the plan calls for a year lease with a one-year option to renew and an option for the col lege to purchase the building at any time between now and the end ofthe lease A purchase price of was discussed during the informal but both boards would have to approve any figure at their regular meetings or not we would con- sider buying the building would depend on the support we receive from the area in terms of Breuder believe that the people of the area will make use of the services we can College officials would like to establish a Licensed Practical Nursing program as the initial beginning as early as 1982, if Other courses of study to be added later may include computer and programs which would strengthen the labor force for the present industries in the county or help attract new The Charleston school contains square feet of ed on a 40-acre tract of land though the building is rather old and needs restorative it provides a splendid op- for growth and Breuder WACC officials are hoping that a portion or all of the estimated needed to implement the LPN course may be obtained from the Governor's Balance of State funds through the Private Indus Council If the site agreement can be reached between the two approval of the State Board of Nursing Examiners would be necessary to establish the LPN Indications are that be- tween 80 and 100 area residents have expressed an interest in enrolling in an LPN program Breuder said that the ment of a satellite campus in the could be a step toward the revitalization of the area's absolutely necessary to make higher education available to gain the essential manpower to attract new industry to the Breuder June 30 Total for
