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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
May 19, 2002
BOROUGH REVIEWS DESIGN, COSTS OF DAM
Author: JUDY SALISBURY CLINE
Correction: The following CORRECTION/CLARIFICATION appeared on May 26, 2002.
If Zelienople goes ahead with work on the Scholar's Run dam, it will use funds from its Water
Revenue Bond Series. The wrong bond series was reported in a story last Sunday.
Article Text:
Zelienople's borough manager, engineer, water superintendent and some council members plan
to take a long, hard look at the Scholar's Run dam project before committing funds to it.
Begun as a $60,000 project to improve the borough's water supply during the dry season, the
project has ballooned in cost -- council learned last month that price tag was at an estimated
$250,000.
Dale Krysinski, engineer for Killam Associates of Pittsburgh, estimated that installing a second
intake pipe could cost the borough as much as $140,000. The dam already has one intake pipe
that pulls water from Scholar's Run into the reservoir.
"We're trying to coordinate these things," said borough manager Marla Marcinko. "We
question how much further to go on the parallel intake line. We may make some changes."
Councilman William Dickinson said the borough's previous engineering problems with storm
sewers, water system and roads had been costly. He suggested hiring a second engineering firm
to check the design of the dam upgrades.
"Burn me once; burn me twice; burn me three times. How many times are we going to get
burnt?" Dickinson said.
Council passed Dickinson's motion for a second engineering firm to review Killam's design by a
vote of 4-2.
Tom Thompson, an engineer for Gannett and Fleming Inc., who was at the meeting to speak
about a different project, said such peer reviews are common for jobs backed by state loans.
However, Zelienople did not receive a state loan for the dam project. The $60,000 comes from
AK Steel as part of a consent decree issued by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. AK
Steel was legally dumping nitrates in Connoquenessing Creek, which is Zelienople's backup
water source when Scholar's Run has too little water, but the company agreed to cut back
substantially as part of the consent decree.
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