Westmoreland County has 143 state-inspected bridges that are rated in poor condition and will need maintenance work, if they haven’t already been closed. PennDOT lists a bridge as being in poor condition if its deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert has a condition with a low rating. A bridge will be
Pennsylvania could clean up the vast majority of the state’s abandoned mines and the pollution caused by them with a $245 million federal allocation annually for the next 15 years, a Westmoreland County conservation official said. “This pot of money has the potential to make one of the largest impacts
About 2,600 First Energy customers in Allegheny County and 20,800 in Washington County were without power Friday morning as a winter storm moving through Southwestern Pennsylvania transitioned from freezing rain and sleet to snow. An additional 2,100 Duquesne Light customers also were in the dark, the utility reported at 9
Sections of Loyalhanna Creek and several of its tributaries, as well some streams in Salem, are among bodies of water in Westmoreland County that are considered impaired for various uses, according to a new statewide integrated water quality report from the Department of Environmental Protection. In neighboring Allegheny County, Glade