2 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, June 2, 1993 Runoff (continued from page 1) LEHMAN TOBY'S CREEK WATERSHED Courtesy of BORTON LAWSON ENGINEERING @ DALLAS LARKSVILLE EDWARDSVILLE LUZERNE QUIET AT SUSOUEHANNA KINGSTON Property transfers Property transfers recorded at the Luzerne County Court House from May 10, 1993 to May 21, 1993. Prices are extrapolated from transfer taxes paid. James F. Rittenhouse Jr. to David Spurlin, PO Box 443, Dal- las, property Main St., Kingston Township, $183,000. Stanley T. Przyuski to Floyd B. McRay Jr., 158 Sunset Terrace, Harveys Lake, property 2 parcels, Harveys Lake, $32,000. ‘Thomas J. Price to Donald A. Wesley, RR 3, Box 81A, Hunlock Creek, property 13 ac 37 per., Ross Twp., $32,000. ‘Benjamin D. Roberts to Fred A. Davis, 6 Robbins Rd., Dallas, property L56, Haddonfield, Dal- las Twp., $105,000. ‘Deidre Krasner to Robert Han- nigan, 56 Grandview Ave., Dallas, property Halowich Rd., Lake Twp., $8,500. ‘John Murray to Andrew M. Sholtis Jr., Briarwood Terrace, Shavertown, property Jackson Twp., $1,000. DOWN TO EARTH BODY ESSENTIALS "experience soaps and toiletries [fragrantly perfumed with herbs, flowers & fruits" Great Gift Ideas Teachers & Graduation * Crabtree & Evelyn * Caswell-Massey * Scarborough & Company Victorian House 1027 Wyoming Ave., Forty Fort, PA 717-283-8401 Joyce I. Edwards to Kenneth A. Russell, RR 2, Box 366-1, Dallas, property Rte. 29, Gordon Rd., Lake Twp., $28,000. Woodside Home Inc. to Nita C. Natividad, 160 Kimberly Lane, Trucksville, property Highland Rd., Kingston Twp., $300,000. Stephen J. Dudascik to Mi- chael J. Gallagher, property 60 Country Rd., Dallas, property 0.76 ac., Country Rd., Kingston Twp., $318,000. Donald A. Wesley to Kenneth C. Dymond, Box 225, RR 3, Dal- las, property 1) 2.16 ac.; 2) 2.02 ac., Ross Twp., $17,000. Carl E. Organek to Andrew Kopczynski, 6 Fairfield Dr., Laf- lin, property Jackson Twp., $14,500. Bernard Novicki to David Metzo, 56 Firecut Road, Wyoming, prop- erty, 39 ac., Kingston Twp., $10,000. Donald Rood to Jeanette M. Labbate, 2 Valley View Dr., Dal- las, property Valley View Dr., Dallas Twp., $155,000. Michael J. Gallagher to John C. Rupert, 42 Aster Rd., Dallas, property Aster Rd., Dallas Twp., $163,000. Correction Information about the late Christy Elston, included in a story about Lake-l.ehman students last week was incorrect. The one-vehicle acci- dent in which Ms. Elston was killed on her way to school the morning of February 26, 1993, was not in any way related to alcohol, according to Lake Township Police Chief John Maslowski. The Post regrets the error. to implément the stormwater management plan because the Back Mountain is a rapidly devel- oping area," said county planner Nancy Snee. Any time that buildings are erected or ground paved over, the ground loses part of its ability to absorb water. If water can't soak into the ground, it has to go somewhere - eventually into the nearest stream or pond. Or people's basements. Unusually heavy rainfall onto frozen oralready saturated ground can cause {looding, as seen in this past spring's high water episodes which closed roads and flooded a few homes along area streams, Toby's Creek and its tributaries included. Toby's Creek, whose main stem originales in Dallas Township, drains and occasionally floods parts of Dallas Borough and Dal- las, Jackson, Lehman and King- ston townships. The plan requires new develop- ments in these areas to provide for ways to limit stormwater run- off through the construction of holding ponds, grassy areas or individual cisterns, according to literature distributed at the group's May 26 meeting. Builders of new homes will be required to submit a stormwater runoll management plan to the township before a building permit is issued, Doughton said. Owners of existing homes who ~ wish tomake improvements, such as additions, garages, pools with patios or paving over gravel drive- ways will also be required to have an engineer file stormwater man- agement plans before obtaining permits ifthe improvements cover more than 5,000 square feet of ground, Doughton said. “That's not a lot of area,” he said. “I think that 5,000 square feet is too small an area. I would have liked to see the minumum be at least 10,000 square feet.” The equivalent of 5,000 square feel is a square roughly 71 feel on each side. On one-acre lots with no public sewer, individual new homes will be required to have cisterns to hold runoff water, while new subdivisions will be required to have ponding areas or other ways ofholding storm runoff, Doughton said. Because several branches of the creek drain much of Dallas Township, Doughton said that it will be the most heavily affected by the new ordinance. According to a map prepared by Borton and Lawson Engineer- ing, new developments in most of Dallas Township will be allowed to release only half the amount of the measured pre-development runoff into the creek afler devel- opment. The other half will be caught in containment areas, where it will eventually evaporate or soak into the ground. New developments in areas of Jackson and Kingston townships along the very steep slopes of Bunker Hill and Plymouth and Larksville mountains will need runoff controls that will hold up to 95 percent of the measured pre- development runoff, according to bioy Better Golf with JACK NICKLAUS Eiko HE GoLE, bid RE QU MOST OF Af HE on 5 PHYSICAL RESOURCES AT ONE STAGE OR ANOTHER, ERRCARRNUN A = FZ9 le WN oral] pith Country SKI & SPORTS Gifts for Dads & Grads Golf, Conoeing, Roller Blades, Raleigh Bikes PAR YOU ReG| CULA PRESSURE DOING A JRY Ma AL Jat OB FRO " EET 5 mie SHsloLoER ALN A King Features Syndicate, Inc. World nghts reserved Call 824-0541 Rt. 309 at Blackman St., Wilkes-Barre py Fi 10.9 » Sa. 10-5 Mon., Tues., Wed. 10-5 the map. “Dallas Township has had portions of the stormwater man- agement plan in use for a year," Doughton said. “For example, before the township approved the sports complex at College Miseri- cordia, the builder had to submit a stormwater management plan.” The Northwoods development at Haddonfield Hills, newly devel- oped property at Aplewood Manor and construction of the new A&A Auto Parts store on Route 309 opposite Campbell Business Machines also were affected by the ordinance, Doughton said. Because it doesn't have much developable land, the stormwater ordinance won't affect Dallas Borough as severely, according to borough manager Milt Lutsey. “Of course, any new develop- ment will be affected in certain areas, but other areas near the Huntsville Reservoir, forexample, won't be affected because the reservoir acts as a natural catch basin," Lutsey said. “It's necessary to slow down the storm runoff to protect down- stream communities from [lood- ing. That's a great idea. But I'm i “ concerned with the ordinance's. © impact on future Sevelopmentg Se! Lutsey continued. J “For every action, there's a + reaction. In this case it would bes; passing the cost of stormwatef;: y management on to potential buy-+ ers, 5 Ne | Neither Dallas Borough nor a Kingston Township have existing stormwater ordinances. 5 Although nearly half of King:-% ston Township is in the Toby's. © ; Creek watershed, township zon- ing officer Ben Gorey said that nol- i much developable land is left in.” 5 this area. Any subdivision which has already been approved, such as Schooley Farms, will probably not. be required to comply with the ordinance, Gorey said. “ro ,_® on » “I'm concerned with the exist- © ing developed areas," he said." “Adding a patio, new wing to the house or paved driveway will al-2 fect runoff the same way as a new development. You can't stop is from coming down - the idea is to. control it.” roughly 71 feet on each side.) stormwater runoff. on the Edwardsville-Larksville New rules for stormwater runoff The Stormwater Management Act #167 will affect the way in which area communities deal with the water which normally runs . |i down our streets and into area creeks after every rainstorm. Under the provisions of this act, subdivision developers, builders of new homes and owners of existing homes who wish to add paved driveways, pools and patios, garages or new wings will be required to submit an engineer's plan of how they will contain runoff. » Owners of existing homes who wish to make improvements will be exempt from the ordinance if the total area of ground to be covered is less than 5,000 square feet (equivalent to a square * Persons building new homes will have to add underground - cisterns or other ways of holding stormwater runoff. : * Developers of new subdivisions will be required to construct |: swales, holding ponds, grassy areas or other means of controlling - | Ironically, the downsteam communities along Toby's Creek -.°|" Luzerne, Pringle, Courtdale, Kingston and Edwardsville - won't be «|. affected by the stormwater ordinances because they have very few {4 tributaries feeding into the creek, which runs into a ponding area |. in Pringle, then through an underground culvert through Ed- |s wardsville and Kingston before entering the Susquehanna River :_{. border. by Grace R. 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