A group of Manor Township residents attended last month’s work session of supervisors to look for answers to flooding due to lack of surface water drainage between Park, Center, and Chaplain Avenues.
“I’m going to put three new six-foot deep catch basins with a three-foot pipe the whole way across Center Avenue,” Supervisor Bob Southworth said. We’re going to even replace the pipe under the road. There’s a big problem. There’s a whole bunch of trees in there. If I’m putting a three-foot pipe in there, the trees got to go and that’s technically not our right- of- way. So you guys remove the trees and get me a big enough opening to go down through there with a machine. We will replace the pipe from Park clear across Center.”
The residents immediately responded and the trees are being cut down. Southworth said the Township still must find money for the pipe project, but anticipates it being completed by next summer.