Friday, October 5, 2012
Prompted by Lansdale Councilman Paul Clemente, the administration and finance committee is reviewing a draft survey to be issued to taxpayers to gather data on municipal waste services
There was a lot of trash talking going on Wednesday at the Lansdale administration and finance committee. The concept of a single trash hauler for the borough is back on the agenda after 10 months, and it includes revisiting a $17,000 study that never made it out of the public works committee in 2006. Councilmembers have about a week to review a 2006 Gannett-Fleming Municipal Waste and Recycleables Collection study — as well as a draft preliminary survey from borough engineer Remington, Vernick and Beach — in hopes that a finalized proposed residential survey on trash hauler will be recommended to council for approval in November. Read the full study at this link. The revisit of the single hauler was prompted in December 2011 by Councilman…
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Here's a week review of five stories that we hope caught your attention. Missed them? Here's a rundown for you
Local Patch editors from Montgomery County volunteered all day Thursday to clean trash from the Cross County Trail in Plymouth Meeting and Conshohocken. More than 1,700 pounds of trash was collected along the trail and bagged for pick-up. Check out the countywide story, photos and video here. Lansdale Borough Parks and Recreation Committee is in the very early stages of discussing where, when and how to bring a skate park to town. The ideal place: Schweiker Park, a jointly-owned park with Hatfield Township. Tubular idea! Read about it. Montgomery Township Detective James Reape was commended for the investigation into the child corruption case of former North Penn School District employee Charles Hurst, who pleaded guilty to drug and …
Friday, April 15, 2011
For the Patch and Aol Give 5 Day, eight Patchers from Montgomery County volunteered and cleaned up nearly a ton of trash from the Cross County Trail.
What does it say about us as a people in this ecosystem when nearly a ton of trash is collected from either side of a two-mile trail? It says there’s a whole hell of a lot more to go. For the volunteer Give 5 program of Patch and Aol, seven local editors of Patch sites of Eastern Pennsylvania One-Regional One spent seven hours Thursday discarding trash from the Cross County Trail. In the end, we collected 34 bags of trash, each weighing about 50 pounds. That is 1,700 pounds—more than three-quarters of a ton—of trash. In seven hours. In just two miles. “I think it is really impressive that our company, Aol, gives us the work hours to do volunteering like this,” said Melissa Treacy, regional editor for Montgomery County Patch sites. “It is …
terry
9:35 pm on Tuesday, January 29, 2013
I hope they don't force another mandate on us.I'm getting sick of them taking away our freedoms.I like my trash company G&C , We use to have Wastemanagement,they were horrible,never picked up and left trash on the ground.The county should be using our money for better things then a stupid trash survey,use it to fix Main st.it looks like crap. more ›