Local briefs
Auxiliary to meet The Ladies Auxiliary to Walter E. Brown VFW Post 21 will meet Thursday beginning at 7 p.m. at the post home.
According to President Nancy C. Jones, the National Programs for 2007-2008 will be presented and plans for implementing the programs will be discussed.
Jones encourages all members to attend.
Public meeting scheduled
The Chestnut Ridge Chapter of Trout Unlimited (CRTU) and its project partners will sponsor a kickoff meeting for the Dunbar Creek Corridor Assessment and Prioritization project at 6:20 p.m. Thursday, July 12 at the Dunbar Borough building. CRTU and its project partners invite anyone interested in obtaining more information about the project or anyone who wants to offer input to attend.
The upstream project boundary is the junction of Limestone Run in Dunbar Borough that extends down to the junction with the Youghiogheny River in Dunbar Township.
The overall goal of the proposed project is to conduct a comprehensive stream corridor appraisal that will:
– Accurately identify channel instabilities and habitat deficiencies
– Prioritize the delineated stream reaches with respect to future repairs
– Provide relatively detailed preliminary rehabilitation prescriptions and cost estimates for the identified highest priority stream segments.
For more information, call Scott Hoffman at 412-264-8701 or e-mail him at begin shoffman@mconsultants.com shoffman@mconsultants.com end
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Road closing set
PennDOT District 12 said a section of Route 31 in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County will be closed to traffic and detoured between 12:01 a.m. July 11 and 11:59 pm. July 16. The closure is between Lindell Road and Clay Pike Road. This road will be closed so that crews can remove the existing bridge and replace it with a pre-cast culvert and do minor paving.
A marked detour will be posted.
Eastbound traffic will be detoured at the intersection of Route 31 and County Line Road. At this intersection, the detour will follow County Line Road eastbound and then onto Hellen School Road northbound. Traffic will re-enter Route 31 at the intersection of Route 31 and Hellen School Road.
Westbound traffic will begin the detour at the intersection of Route 31 and Hellen School Road and follow Hellen School Road south to County Line Road. Traffic will then travel west on County Line Road to re-enter Route 31 westbound.
The contractor for this $697,651.50 project is Gregori Construction and Engineering from Sarver.