Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Newtown Township's Act 537 Sanitary Sewer Facilities Plan is now available for public inspection until Nov. 16.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–The long-awaited Newtown Township Act 537 Sanitary Sewer Facilities Plan is now available for public inspection at the municipal building and the Newtown Public Library until Nov. 16. Two copies of the 2,000-page plan will be available at the municipal building and one copy at the library. The document includes the plan in its entirety as well as residents' surveys and responses. Residents may be able to purchase a copy of the plan, in which a cost price was not determined at last Tuesday's supervisors meeting. Mark Kay, a resident on Excalibur Drive, asked the supervisors at the meeting whether the plan would be available online in which Supervisor John Nawn stated that it was not determined if the township's website had …
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Newtown's sanitary sewer enforcement officer James MacCombie presented an update of the township's Act 537 planning module at a supervisors meeting on Aug. 13.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–James MacCombie, Newtown Township's sanitary sewer enforcement officer, of Herbert E. MacCombie Jr., P.E., Consulting Engineers and Surveyors, Inc., presented the Board of Supervisors and the public with an updated sewer planning module for the Act 537 Plan. MacCombie was hired by the township last August as a third-party engineer to review the final draft of the Act 537 Plan. A new plan of study for the Act 537 Plan was submitted by MacCombie in early January. According to MacCombie, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) gave approval for the township to move ahead with developing a new sewer plan for the township in February. Since then, MacCombie shared the current status of the plan: Some key goals/dates for …
Thursday, January 26, 2012
A new plan of study for the Act 537 Plan was submitted on Jan. 4 to the Department of Environmental Protection.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–Mike Trio, Newtown Township manager, provided the Board of Supervisors with a brief update on the status of the town's Act 537 Plan–the township's official sewage facilities plan–at a meeting on Jan. 23. "The township's Act 537 Planning Team have been conducting weekly meetings to track and expedite the Act 537 Plan resubmittal process," informed Trio to the supervisors on Monday night. In August of last year, the supervisors hired James MacCombie of MacCombie Engineering Services to review the final draft of the Act 537 Plan as a third-party engineer to "help address the extensive public comment and give the township an unbiased review of the plan prepared by Kelly & Close Engineers," stated Trio at a previous meeting. …
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Newtown Township Zoning Hearing Board granted approval for Episcopal Academy's special exception to construct a sanitary sewer force main through a floodplain on Dec. 15 with conditions on approval by the township, county and state.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–Members of Newtown Township's Zoning Hearing Board voted unanimously on Dec. 15 to move forward with Episcopal Academy's application to construct a sanitary sewer force main through a flood hazard district in the township to provide a public sanitary sewer service to the school. The school, located on 1785 Bishop White Drive, off of Newtown Street Road/Route 252, sought to seek a special exception, the first step of many approvals for the project, on Thursday night's meeting to construct a sewer line through the southern part of their property, owned by Ashford Land Co. L.P. "Episcopal Academy has been handling the sanitary sewage for the campus by pump and haul since they opened in August of 2008," explained Donald Petrosa…
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Newtown Township Manager Mike Trio provided an update on the current status of the Act 537 Plan and its possible timeline for submission to the Department of Environmental Protection.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–At a Newtown Board of Supervisors meeting on Oct. 11, Mike Trio, township manager, provided another update on the status of the township's Act 537 Plan and a proposed completion timeline for the plan. To recap, Trio said the supervisors had placed all special studies attached with the sewer plan in order to push forward the finalization of the Act 537 Plan. In August, the supervisors hired James McCombie of McCombie Engineering Services to review the final draft of the Act 537 Plan as a third-party engineer to "help address the extensive public comment and give the township an unbiased review of the plan prepared by Kelly & Close Engineers," stated Trio at the meeting last week. Trio said McCombie finished his review of the …
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Newtown Board of Supervisors approved the final draft of the Ashford cluster development plan for the Department of Environmental Protection's approval at a meeting on Sept. 26.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–The Rouse Group/Ashford Land Company sought final approval from the Newtown Board of Supervisors at a meeting on Monday evening for their Ashford cluster development planning module. The board unanimously approved the final draft of the 449-unit, sub-division cluster development of single-family homes located at the former John duPont estate and Biddle Farm off of Route 252/Newtown Street Road. The plan will now be sent to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for their approval. At a meeting in June, Tina Makoulian, a representative for The Rouse Group, said the plan was getting down to the fine details. Since then, Makoulian said DEP returned an earlier submission of their plan for administrative and technical …
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Newtown Township's Municipal Authority appointed a new chairman, while two new members filled vacant seats on the board, and a moment of silence was taken for the passing of former Chairman Bob Jackson at a meeting on Sept. 6.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–With just over two months since he's been appointed, newly appointed board member of Newtown Township's Municipal Authority Joseph Sweeney was given another hat to wear by the end of Tuesday evening's Municipal Authority meeting. Sweeney, who was appointed by the Board of Supervisors on June 27, was appointed by the board members of the Municipal Authority as the chairman of the board. Two new members also joined the board on Tuesday evening to fill the final two vacancies. Recently appointed members, also approved by the supervisors, Raymond Lopez, and former Municipal Authority member Jack DiPompeo sat on the board. Lopez motioned to appoint Sweeney to chair the Municipal Authority, which was seconded by Vice Chairman Mark…
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Newtown's Board of Supervisors provided an update for the public on the status of the Act 537 Plan and police contract at a meeting on Aug. 8.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–At the last Board of Supervisors meeting on Aug. 8, Newtown supervisors provided the public with a few updates on the comprehensive Act 537 Plan and police contract. Supervisors hire third-party engineer to review Act 537 Plan Newtown supervisors hired James MacCombie of MacCombie Engineering Services, also Marple Township's municipal engineer, to review the final draft of the township's Act 537 sewer plan for a rate not to exceed of $1,500 to $2,000. "We thought it necessary to have a clear vision from someone who hasn't been a part of the process," said Mike Trio, township manager, about hiring MacCombie as a third-peer reviewer. According to Trio, MacCombie has already initiated his review of the plan and will have 30 …
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
The Newtown Board of Supervisors appointed two members of the public to fill the last two seats on the Municipal Authority.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–Newtown supervisors approved the appointments of two candidates to fill the vacant seats on the township's Municipal Authority at a Board of Supervisors meeting on Aug. 9. Raymond Lopez, president of the Homeowner's Association of Springton Pointe Estates, and Jack DiPompeo, a former supervisor who served for six years on the board, were unanimously approved in a 3-0 vote (Supervisors Linda Houldin and George Wood were not present at Monday night's meeting) to fill the remaining empty seats of the Municipal Authority. At a supervisors meeting on June 27, Joseph Sweeney was appointed to fill one of the three vacant seats and sat in on his first Municipal Authority meeting on Aug. 2, and discussed the Act 537 Plan. Two empty …
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Newly appointed member Joseph Sweeney joined the few members left on the Municipal Authority at their meeting on Aug. 1.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–Newtown Township's Municipal Authority held its first meeting without former Chairman Bob Jackson and with a newly appointed member Joseph Sweeney on Aug. 1. Within a few days of each other, the Board of Supervisors approved the appointment of Sweeney to the Municipal Authority on June 27 and Jackson resigned as chairman on June 29. That currently still leaves the board with two vacant seats. Despite the new changes on the board, residents didn't skip a beat and demanded answers and direction from the remaining members Mark Caldwell and Jack Lear as well as newly appointed member Sweeney in regards to the Act 537 Plan and an update on the Florida Park and Echo Valley special studies. Although he was please to have Sweeney on…
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Charles Lerman
10:53 am on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Ms. Wilson, you wrote on Oct. 16: "I do not see that the summary is on the township page yet--hopefully, it will be there later today." I don't find it today, either, but am I looking in the right place -- http://www.newtowntownship.org/ -- If so, under what heading would it be? Thanks. more ›