Chickies flood plan rejected
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MANHEIM - The non
structural flood protection
plan proposed for the
Chickies Creek Watershed in
Lancaster and Lebanon
counties has been rejected in
Washington due to new,
tougher economic criteria.
“The rejection is another
example of Administration
policy to get the federal
government out of the flood
control business,” according
to James Shaffner,
Watershed Planning Staff
Leader in the State Soil
Conservation Sendee Office
in Harrisburg.
“This project is one of the
best we had in the state for
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non-structural flood
protection and it now ap
_ pears that no plans are going
to receive approval.”
The new, tougher
economic criteria now being
used to review such plans
deal with the manner in
which the cost benefit ratio
is determined.
Previously, blocks or
groups of properties could be
lumped together and con
sidered as a unit to arrive at
a favorable one-to-one cost
benefit ratio. This means
that properties with a more
favorable ratio could help
carry those properties with a
less favorable ratio.
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Now, under the tougher
guidelines, each property is
considered individually.
Each must qualify for the
one-to-one ratio in which the
flood damage to be
prevented has to equal the
cost of preventing the
damage.
The Chickies Creek
Watershed plan as
propopsed in December
called for the relocation of
five commercial buildings
and 58 homes.
Under the new guidelines,
approximately 70 percent of
these properties would not
qualify. Most of these are
residential properties.
Previously, some of the
larger commercial
properties, such as
Raybestos-Manhattan in
Manheim, with a very
favorable cost benefit ratio
helped carry the less
favorable residential
properties.
Sponsors of the non
structrual plan, including
the Lancaster County
Commissioners, the Lan
caster County Conservation
District and Manheim
Borough, now appear to
have little choice but play a
waiting game.
It is expected that only a
change in Administration or
a change in economic con
ditions to promote public
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County loan and purchase
rates for 1980-crop .wheat
grading No. 1 or better were
issued Friday by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture's
Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service.
The rates are based on the
national average loan rate of
$2.50 per bushel, the same as
the final rate for 1979-crop
wheat.
All 1980 county rates for
wheat have been increased
by one cent to adjust for
some shifts in production
from higher to lower loan
rate counties.
Loan rates for selected
counties in the Denver,
Colo., area were further
increased between one and
four cents to reflect recent
changes in wheat marketing
patterns.
Copies of the rates issued
works projects would have
any favorable impact on the
plan.
In addition to the property
relocations, the $3 million
plan also called for flood
proofing additional com
mercial and residential
properties and various other
measures to protect at least
half of the land in the 23,500-
acre Chickies Creek
Watershed in Lancaster and
Lebanon counties.
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HARRISBURG - Penn
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vested 50 per cent more
beavers during the 1980
season than they were able
to take the preceding year,
according to final Game
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During the past season,
trappers took 5321 of the big
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the open season in February
and March.
The leading county for
beaver pelts in 1980 was
Crawford, with 894.
Following were Wayne with
467; Erie, with 406; and
Susquehanna, 342.
Altogether, fourteen
counties produced more than
100 beaver hides in 1960,
compared with eleven in 1979
and just three in 1978.
Although Pennsylvania’s
prime beaver range is in the
northern part of the state,
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counties this year.
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