Smoke Signals Forum

There are 8 sites in Somerset County:

http://www.co.somerset.pa.us/department.asp?deptnum=178

We take ours to Richland at/near Richland HS/UPJ/Penn Highlands; they take paper/cardboard, cans, glass, and plastics marked 1 and 2:

http://www.google.com/maps/place/40.261796,-78.8362902   Right next to Campus Police.

A reminder that this would NOT occur this fall prompted a good question from a new owner as to why not just do it every year?  The standard answers from the past are repeated below:

1.   We need a DEP permit; no big deal but can't occur over night.
2.   We have 1000+ boats to get out of the water; it drives the Marina nuts
3.   Some experts believe lowering every year, or even every-other year, harms the Lake.
4.   There is no easy way to regulate level once we go lower than the spillway.  It can be painstaking.
5.   Lack of spillway regulation means we cannot rely on safe ice for ice-fishing, snowmobiles, etc.

 
Hopefully some combination of the above strikes a chord

Can we re-look at recycling options here at Indian Lake.
Statewide recycling in Pennsylvania began in 1988 with the Municipal Waste Planning Recycling and Waste Reduction Act (Act 101) that requires larger municipalities to recycle.  More than 11.6 million residents at least 94 percent of the state's population have access to recycling. About 79 percent have convenient access to recycling through about 1,050 curb-side pickup programs. Since Pennsylvania is largely rural, 870 drop-off programs extend recycling to the greatest number of communities. 

With the loss of the Central City pickup area, it would be useful if the Borough could provide a list of recycling pick up areas or re-address an option to recycle at Indian Lake. 

Thank you for your attention to this important environmental issue
Pamela Tadken

Feel free to discuss the new Ordinance here so all can learn as we go...

Does anyone know if any action was taken on the ordinance to allow ATVs and Snowmobiles on our roads.