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Harford Township is spending some of the more than $250,000 it has received from the Act 13 “impact fee” assessed against the natural gas drilling industry to beef up the roads. At the township Supervisors’ meeting on September 10th, the bill list showed expenditures totaling nearly $25,000 for additional road materials from the fund. The Supervisors are also looking to buy more calcium chloride for dust control out of the fund. Supervisor Garry Foltz said the township wants to “get [the money] on the roads.”

One of those roads, Tyler Lake, will soon get a special upgrade with the help of a grant from the Soil Conservation service. The project, the initiative of a resident at the lake, will help to control drainage from the road into the lake. The Supervisors accepted a bid of $33,910 from Barhite Excavating of Clifford to do the work. The Soil Conservation service recently approved a grant of $26,400 for the project. Harford Township will contribute $8,600 and some parts and labor. Nobody was sure where to get a 3-foot extension for the sewer basin on the road or how much it might cost. But everything else seems to be ready to proceed.

President Tom Lamont was absent from the beginning of the September 9th meeting of the Montrose borough council, so Todd Chamberlain presided in his stead.

During the street department report, Mr. DiPhillips noted remembrance of the fact that council had wanted him to begin leaves a little earlier. He asked council to be thinking about when they wanted him to start. Mr. Chamberlain suggested seeing how fast they turned. Mr. Granahan proposed just seeking which residents had a pile out as the street department traveled the street. Mr. Chamberlain asked when they usually started; it was normally in October, Mr. DiPhillips responded. Mr. Schuster suggested that when the leaves were down they be put out, Mr. Granahan concurred with this idea.

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