Officials with the Geeseytown Fire Company say two people were rescued Thursday afternoon after their raft become stuck along the Frankstown Branch of the Junia
Officials with the Geeseytown Fire Company say two people were rescued Thursday afternoon after their raft become stuck along the Frankstown Branch of the Junia
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The Altoona Water Authority recently bought equipment needed to begin a five-year regimen of testing for bacteria downstream from its Combined Sewer Overflows, to determine what effects the CSOs have on streams.
That could help determine whether environmental agencies eventually begin to pressure the city to eliminate its combined storm-and-sanitary sewer system serving the central area of the city work that years ago was estimated could cost $75 million.
“We hope to have (the equipment) installed and running this spring,” Mark Glenn, president of Gwin Dobson & Foreman, the authority’s consulting engineer, said at a recent meeting.
There will be 20 sampling sites 11 along Mill Run and the Beaverdam and Frankstown branches of the Juniata River downstream from the CSO at Tuckahoe Park and nine along the Little Juniata River downstream from the CSO near East Sixth Avenue and Kettle Street, according to a map provided at the meeting.