8 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, January 31, 1996 Rate increase (continued from page 1) tary Sharon Wilmarth, the PUC has received 72 letters protesting the rate increase from NUI cus- tomers. “National Utilities has quite a history of noncompliance with us,” she said. Part of the rate increase may pay for installing new pumps at Midway Manor, Wilmarth said. The PUC can later visit the com- pany to verify that new pumps have actually been installed. “Ordinarily, a water company is given a specific time to make the improvements it told us it planned,” said assistant PUC le- gal counsel Stan Brown. “They must file an affidavit with us stat- ing they made the improvements, but it may be several months be- fore we find out whether or not the work was actually done. In 90 percent of the cases, the work is done.” Site checks and customer com- plaints are often the PUC’s only way of verifying the work, he added. Not doing the promised work can result in fines against the company. In the past year, customers of all four area divisions have com- plained about leaks in the sys- tem, sloppy repairs, low water pressure and too much chlorine in the water, resulting in spoiled laundry, skin irritation and di- gestive problems. At Worden Place, “temporary” water lines strung through streets, culverts and a creek bed have been there for nearly nine years. Summer residents went without water for 2 1/2 months in 1995, while water ran down the street from a leak in a pipe leading to a winter resident’s home. [lappy Greco (continued from page 1) for the 12 to 14 shows is about 3,000.” He contends theamphitheater’s EDU'’s are two or three times those ofany restaurant around the lake. “I believe one EDU for the res- taurant and one for the bar is reasonable,” Greco said. “When the Hansons operated their amusement park here they had a lot more usage than we do. We runonly 14 events ayear. We're a lot less of a burden on the system than the originalamusement park was. I wouldn't mind paying the same number of EDU’'s that Hanson's paid for - four or five.” He added that he sent pay- ments to the municipal authority through last August, based on what he thought was a fair sewer assessment. “They didn't apply our pay- ments as we directed,” he said. “They applied it against our old balance. They were very arrogant and forceful in their attempts to collect the money.” : Boice said the authority charged the Hansons three EDU'’s for the dance hall and seven more for the amusement park. “We lowered Greco's EDU’s to one per concert and three for his other businesses located on the property,” Boice added. © If the municipal authority gets ‘a judgement against Greco and ‘he doesn’t pay his bill, it can cut RT EE TO RE “He thinks we're overcharging him and we think we're undercharging him.” Rick Boice Harveys Lake Mayor off his sewer service. Greco has 20 days to contest the lien, which he has done. “Contesting it will hold it up until we can get to court,” Greco said. “We have a reason why we didn’t pay the bill. Everyone must pay the rates — all we ask is that they be uniform, fair and go ac- cording to the code.” This summer he plans to ex- pand the Cajun festival, which he said was very successful last year, and to add a seafood and jazz festival. He also wants to bring more country, oldies, current rock and classic rock shows to the amphitheater and plans to dis- cuss a summer “Pops” series with the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. “It’s too early to discuss spe- cificnames,” Greco said. “Harveys Lake is a very small venue and we won't have concerts lined up until we get closer to the start of the season.” Bug bill (continued from page 1) Mundy counters that many county officials have had to be- come experts in the caterpillars because of the widespread defo- liation inflicted last spring. In ar- eas where the pests have estab- lished themselves, outbreaks can be predicted, she added. Counties must contract with spray contractors by early Febru- ary and are locked into contracts by March, even if the infestations aren't as severe as they had been predicted, Leslie said. The state - must still pay for spraying, even if it’s not needed. House Bill 1766, which passed the first approval before the full House, is tabled. Before it can be passed on to the Senate for avote, it must pass two more votes in the House. The Senate doesn’t have any ~ similar legislation pending, ac- cording to a spokesperson for Senator Charles Lemmond, who said Lemmond received many re- quests for help with the caterpil- lars last spring. Representative George Hasay, who co-sponsored the bill, said he will support it when it comes be- fore the House for a vote. All hope isn't lost if the state doesn’t fund a spray program, however. A program coordinated by the county and another by a Back Mountain township supervisor are still in the works for the spring. As he has in the past, Dallas Township supervisor Frank Wagner plans to coordinate a pri- vate spraying program, which will cost property owners $25 per acre, and is available for smaller lot sizes. Neighborhoods may join the program, butresidents should know their lot sizes so a price can be computed. For more informa- tion call Wagner at 675-2325. Luzerne County's office of spe- cial environmental projects will also coordinate a spraying pro- gram, which will cost $14 per acre for a minimum of 10 acres. Resi- dents must call Director of Spe- cial Environmental Projects Ron Rugletic at 825-1840 as soon as possible for a contract. People who don’t own 10 acres may group their properties to- gether to get the lower cost, as long as the properties adjoin one another. Rugletic’s staff will provide spraying information, the contractor's name and telephone number and a contract. Residents must {ill out the contract, collect the money and pay the sprayeron their own. Waiting until the nasty little critters appear is much too late to call for a sprayer, Rugletic said. The spray must be applied before the bugs grow to a certain size. Larger caterpillars require stron- ger chemicals, which can be haz- ardous to the environment. BACK MOUNTAIN BRIEFS Harveys Lake Women to host health program The Health Women 50+ Project, breast and cervical cancer screening program will be presented to the Harveys Lake Women's Service Club on February 1, 7 p.m. at the Harveys Lake Elementary School cafeteria. Charlene Frial, Project Assistant for Maternal and Family Health Services, will discuss program services and eligibility requirements. The public is invited. For more information call 823-7057. BMT Republicans will meet Feb. 7 The Back Mt. 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