A 30—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 10,1984
Farmers and neighbors
pledge $12,000
toward bridge
FALMOUTH - A group of
farmers and neighbors from
Lancaster and Dauphin Counties
recently pledged $12,000 in per
sonal funds to help replace a
covered bridge over the Conewago
Creek that was 'destroyed by fire
six years ago.
For the six years since the
bridge was destroyed, poultry
farmer Clair Nissley of Falmouth
has had to travel several miles out
of his way to reach fields on the
other side of the creek and the egg
truck has had to change its route.
For Nissley and some of his
neighbors the bridge was a vital
link between their farms and
fields, and although superviors in
Conoy and Londonderry Town
ships talked about replacing it, no
action was ever taken.
Nissley said area fanners wrote
a letter to the Lancaster County
Commissioners .. bout two years
ago, requesting that the bridge be
rebuilt. About a year and a half
ago, Lancaster and Dauphin
Counties decided to split the cost of
replacing the bridge, but the two
townships joined by the bridge
were requested to finance the
approaches on their respective
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HARRISBURG The approach
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“Unfortunately, legitimate
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Hallowed. “Unfil December of
1983, tree farmers and legitimate
dealers had little protection from
theft, which may cost the industry
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The Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture in cooperation with
the Department of Environmental
Resources and law enforcement
agencies, are enforcing the act.
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Conoy Township supervisor Bob
Strickland said the engineer’s
estimate for the approach on the
Conoy side was for $22,800, but the
supervisors felt they could afford
to appropriate only $5,000 toward
the project.
At this point, Nissley and a group
of his neighbors who wanted the
bridge rebuilt got together and
pledged $12,000, leaving $5,800
unaccounted for, Nissley said.
In a special meeting with
supervisors and farmers, the
engineering firm lowered its
estimate to $17,000 - the total of the
money pledged from the township
and farmers.
“We got them (the engineer) to
eliminate some of the items on this
job to bring the price down to
$17,000,” Strickland said, noting
that the items eliminated were not
essential to the bridge’s structure.
Strickland says he believes the
group’s persistence is the reason
the bridge is finally being
replaced. “They kept the thing
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alive until the two counties decided
to build the bridge," he said.
Construction of the concrete box
frame bridge that will replace the
wooden covered bridge which once
spanned the creek should start late
this year or early next spring,
Strickland said.
Nissley said he and the other
farmers who pledged money for
the project hope they will be
reimbursed with public money, but
Strickland said the township does
not intend to reimburse them.
Others who contributed funds to
the bridge are: Chris Becker, R 4
Elizabethtown; Melvin Nissley,
Middletown; Robert Gruber,
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Elizabethtown. Plain and Fancy
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