8 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, September 20, 1995 i Dirt road (continued from page 1) children. They must walk on the road to get to the bus stop. There aren't any sidewalks and the road is very narrow. I can’t see the bus stop from my house.” -She drives her children to and from the bus stop everyday so she knows they'll be safe. “As the community grows, the school district may have to study a new bus route,” Arnaud said. “I don’t see why they can't at least send a mini-bus out here.” Sandy Walton lives nearly half a mile from the bus stop. “Iasked the superintendent and transportation coordinator if they would send the school bus down Reservoir Road,” she said. “They told me they don’t want to be- cause the bus might break a shock or something.” Her solution is to pick her chil- dren up at a different stop on Machell Ave. “There are five children from our road who presently ride the school bus,” Walton said. ‘Within the next four years there will be eight. There are four homes back here which pay a total of at least $12,000 a year in school taxes. In the past five years I've paid more than $18,000 in taxes. Numerous streets in Dallas have been re- paved — why can't the borough pave our road?” She added that although police patrol the road, residents have seen people who don't belong there pulled over drinking in cars. Walkers continually find smashed liquor bottles along the roadside. “It's a wooded area,” Walton said. “Anyone could be there - it could become dangerous for the children.” She said the district told her it uses the vans only for special needs students. ‘If the borough _ would pave the road, te could change the _ busroute, a Gerald Wycallis Ballas school superintendent “If the borough would pave the road, we could change the bus route,” said superintendent Ger- ald Wycallis. “We don't like to send our buses on dirtiroads - it isn’t in the best interests of the students’ safety.” Wycallis and transportation coordinator Susan Farr drove part K of C to host Rosary March Sept. 24 The combined Knights of Co- lumbus of Wyoming Valley will host their 19th annual Rosary arch, Sept. 24. Marian devotions will be held at 3 p.m. at St. Mary's of Czesto- chowa Church, Shoemaker St., Swoyersville followed by Rite of Exposition and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. The motorcade and march with the Diocesan Pilgrim Virgin Statue will begin at 2:30 p.m. from Forty Fort Lumber parking lot at Mur- ray and Slocum Streets, Forty Fort and proceed to St. Mary's Czesto- chowa Church. It's easy to subscribe to The Dallas Post Use the coupon on page 2 or call 675-5211 One-On-One Computer Training in your home or office Call today 825-4279 Hild home computer helpers of the road last week to check out the situation. “It's narrow in places,” he noted. He has obtained information on the availability of a van, usu- ally used for special needs stu- dents or to transport students out of the district, to send to Reservoir Road and expects to report to the board at its October 2 work ses- sion. Although paving Reservoir Road is the obvious solution, it's more complicated than it appears to be, according to borough manager Milton Lutsey. _ “Paving the road Mion Luisey Dallas Borough manager “Upgrading and paving Reser- voir Road could cost more than $90,000,” he said. “I doubt if we could get a state or county paving grant, which is based on the resi- dents’ income, because most of the families on that road earn more than the $21,000 limit.” Although the borough gets state money from the Motor Tax Fund for its 14 miles of paved roads, Lutsey said the eligible roads must meet state specifications, which Reservoir Road doesn't. Based on a formula of $1,200 per mile of roadway and $7 per borough resident, the borough receives $43,000 a year from the state. “That's my budget for paving, maintenance, snowplowing, road salt and anti-skid for the entire borough for the whole year,” he _ said. “I budget about $28,000 a year on paving projects alone.” The borough already spends about $1,200 a year laying gravel and calcium chloride, an anti- dust material, on Reservoir Road, Lutsey added. When a heavy rainstorm washed out a portion of the road several years ago, the borough spent $21,000 — nearly the entire paving budget — getting it back in shape, he said. “Paving the road isn't the whole story,” Lutsey said. “Firstyou have to get the proper permits from the Department of Environmental Resources, then make sure the ditches and drainage are properly done. You'd spend a lot of money on equipment and manpower there. Then we'd need to lay sev- POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE Karen Arnaud and her daughter, Ellen, met kindergartener Kyle at the bus stop at the end of Machell Ave. in Dallas. The family lives on Reservoir Road, which they say isn't safe for children to walk along. I isn't safe for the children. They must walk on the road to get to the bus stop.” oo Karen Arnaud Parent of kindergartner eral inches of binder material, at about $22 a ton. Finally there's the wearing surface, which must be compressed to about an inch thick. Even with pooling man- power and equipment and the road materials purchasing coop- erative, it would be very expen- sive. We would love to pave Reser- voir Road, but we have to worr, about our more populated and heavily traveled roads too.” ‘Stabilizing soft spots where water tends to collect, such as near the power station at the fair- ground’'s back gate and at the bottom of the gully near the bor- ough line at the road's opposite Gate of Heaven PTG to meet Sept. 21 The Gate of Heaven PTG will hold its first meeting of the school year September 21 at 7 p.m. in the school gym. All parents are asked to attend. This year’s fundraisers will be discussed and volunteer signup sheets will be available. Officers are Jim Reino, president; Susan Collini, vice-president; Roe Moen, treasurer and Maryellen Cusma, secretary. BiLo Oil Co. Call around for prices — then make us your last call! 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Gasoline (continued from page 1) they must be either very low or completely gone.” As the gasoline component MTBE decreases in the surround- ing wells, it’s increasing in water coming into the treatment plant which the EPA has set up near a wetland behind the gas station, Fetzer added. “This is good - it indicates we're pulling it in from the wells,” he said. The drought has affected the cleanup by lowering the water table, Heston said. “We can’t pump constantly,” he said. “The pond in the wetland has dried up and the ground water isn't being replen- ished by rain. But we plan to work here at least until spring, and possibly longer.” The EPA will continue to moni- tor about 20 nearby private wells and supply bottled *water and materials for the affected resi- dents’ water purification systems until the cleanup is complete, he added. The contamination was first discovered in 1991, when a Lehman Corners resident reported that her well water smelled like gasoline. After extensive testing of wells around the area, the state De- partment of Environmental R@ sources (DER) concluded that two wells were contaminated with benzene, a cancer-causing vola- tile gasoline component, and 17 wells were contaminated with MTBE, an octane-boosting un- leaded gasoline additive less dangerous than benzene. Because MTBE dissolves so easily in water, it tends to stay in a water supply for a long time : travels with water as it seeps through the cracks in under- ground rock layers. DER called the EPA for help in the cleanup in early 1994. The EPA's $1.9 million cleanup, funded by a Superfund grant, began in October, 1994, in which itremoved the contaminants from the water through a special well drilled behind the gas station. 9 Until the EPA stepped ir, Lehman Sunoco owner George Macullough supplied bottled water and water filters to all the affected homes and paid for a new well at Bryant's Trailer Park. Covert (continued from page 1) variety, and most important origi- nal ideas. Almost 1,000 letters came in which are sorted, read and evaluated. New members are then selected. Board members answer sur- veys throughout the year, provid- ing information about themselves and their peers, as well as react- ing to proposed changes and story ideas. Many board members report the experience is fun. K.C. was one of four members selected from Pennsylvania. His board m:>mbership is obviously not an empty honor. He has already been sent a lengthy ques- tionnaire to fill out and return. He says, proudly, “They want my opinions on the '96 Olympics. And I already have a story suggestion they okay'd. It's on chemistry.” This newest board member lives at home on Village Circle, with brother Mark, 5, his Mom, Mary, and Kevin Sr., who owns and operates Overbrook Optical in Shavertown. His Dad can bubble over at the drop of a question WAY When the furnace broke, she thought all of her plans would have to be 4 about K.C., saying, “This isa greg kid. I'd say that even if he di ® belong to me! He just continues’ to amaze me, like he has started asking to be dropped at school a half-hour early (that’s 7:30!) be- cause he's got some project or other going.” K.C. is in the Gate of Heaven church choir, plays clarinet in his school band, skis in the winter and swims in the summer. This year he is beginning to show &%, interest in tennis, and he is also a’ volunteer with the Association for the Blind, an interest stimulated by having a blind grandmother. Another pet passion is chemistry. His mother says, “We have no problem picking a gift at Christmas...another Chemcraft It is obvious that the Coverts are not short of dinner table top- ics to discuss, but that agenda & likely to be considerably more crowded. 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