Springdale Council is taking a closer look at its water rates in the wake of the borough increasing rates by $1.25 per 1,000 gallons for all customers in this year’s budget. Council on Tuesday authorized a study into the rates at a cost not to exceed $18,500. Valuation and Rate,
As structures at the former power plant in Springdale continue to be demolished, except the boiler house, some people might have noticed another structure being erected: a fence around the property on Porter Street. “That fence that’s on Porter is a security fence when, eventually, the administration building and wall
Three communities in the Lower Valley are hoping to limit trash collection costs by joining together to advertise for garbage collection bids. Cheswick, Springdale and Springdale Township officials this week approved advertising a three-way bid. Springdale Township and Cheswick did a dual bid for refuse collection six years ago, and
There’s not much that Springdale Borough can do with an apparently complicated railroad crossing near Colfax Street. At about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, a tractor-trailer’s dolly legs got stuck under the rail at the Colfax Street crossing, police said. The truck driver, unable to get the rig off the tracks, evacuated
As the fate of the boiler house at the former power plant in Springdale is hung up in the courts, crews continue to take down other buildings at the site. “Generally speaking, we’ve been making progress on some of the other buildings throughout the site,” said Scott Reschly, vice president