8 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, January 26, 2000 Gasoline (continued from page 1) volunteer firefighter and was among the first on the scene last Wednesday. “At this point, I do have concerns about the water,” he said. “Being that we're all on wells, I think there is some con- cern that the gasoline may leak into the aquifer and cause some problems down the road.” A public meeting, tentatively scheduled for later this week, will be held to answer any questions those living near the 70-year-old pumping station may have. “All those in the area potentially have been impacted and all deserve to have their concerns addressed,” said Brewer. “We hope to do that in a meeting as soon we can get all parties together, but in the mean- time the easiest way to have ques- tions answered is to stop by the pumping station and talk with our on-site personnel.” Brewer said letters, detailing how to contact Sun officials di- rectly, were being delivered to resi- dents living near the spill. “Our goal is to make it easy for resi- dents to get information,” said Brewer. “The last thing we want is for people to feel they can’t reach us.” Workers from Teem Environ- mental Services are coordinating containment and recovery efforts. “They have a vac truck here now which is taking product from the little stream (Brown's Creek) that passes through the property,” said Russell Jones, a manager for Sun Pipeline Co. “Some of the soil on our property has been excavated as well. That will be put into roll- off containers, covered with plas- tic and taken off the site.” The pipeline, which runs from Reading to Syracuse and carries an average of 512,400 gallons of liquid fuel each day, had been virtually unnoticed until this inci- dent. “I had no idea it was there,” said Stephanie Yevorchak, of Jackson Township. “It wasn’t until I was watching the 6 o'clock news and they were talking about a pumping station that I finally put it all together. It was like, ‘Oh, so that's what that thing is.’ guess Ijust never really thought about it before.” Initial uncertainty about the source of gas vapors made the experience a frightening one. “Ev- erybody I've talked to was pretty scared because it wasn't stated whether this was natural gas or gasoline,” said Yevorchak. “I went Hillside Water Plant Pipeline runs near homes, water plant Post GrapHic/RuTtH PRroIETTO nuts because my daughter was home sick from school and I was afraid the house was going to explode.” John Wilkes Jr., chairman of the Jackson Township Board of Supervisors and emergency man- agement coordinator, said large scale devastation was averted thanks to the quick response of emergency units. “I think every- one involved from the EMA to our fire crews did an excellent job under difficult circumstances,” he Fires (continued from page 1) (3) Paperback plant. A second fire, overnight Mon- day, Jan. 24, left the James Regan family of 23 Pioneer Ave., Dallas, without a home at least tempo- rarily. “The fire is ruled accidental at this point, possibly electrical in nature,” Slocum said. “Mr. Regan’s insurance company is investigat- ing.” The Regans, who have two chil- ( dren at home and one in college, lost nearly all their possessions in the smoky fire. “The house re- ceived extensive heat, smoke and water damage,” Slocum said. The fire started in the base- ment, Slocum said, then spread to the first floor. The house had been added on to over the years, and there were many spaces for the fire to travel. “Once we knocked “ out the original fire it was hell to chase it down,” he said. He said crew were on the scene from mid- night until about 5:30 a.m. Slocum said Jim Regan was awakened by a smoke alarm and was able to get his family out, but the family’s cat died. Dallas was assisted by the Shavertown and Trucksville fire departments. Jayson Pope wins awards Jayson Pope, of Dallas, was included in a delegation of 15 students and 2 advisors fromgy 4 Ithaca College who were selected to attend the NEACURH regional conference held at Syracuse Uni- versity in mid-November. NEACURH is the acronym for the National Association of College and University Residence Halls. The largest student run organiza- tion in the world, NEACURH pro- vides educational and leadership development opportunities for residence hall assistants. Pope and his teammates re- ceived 3 awards including “Pro- gram of the Year” for their presen- tation entitled Not In Our City, Not On Our Campus, Not In Our Community, reflecting students’ concerns about biased related incidents at universities. said. “We contained a lot of the product by arriving at the scene quickly.” POST PHOTO/RON BARTIZEK Crews from Teem Environmental Services worked to clean up a gasoline spill in Jackson Twp. A SunCompany pipeline leaked about 5,000 gallons from a faulty valve, company officials said. St. Paul's group aids PSU students Youth members from St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Shavertown recently participated in a service project at Penn State Wilkes-Barre in Lehman. The group assembled and distributed bags containing soda, fruit, and other snacks to Penn State students living at the Nittany Woodlands State Student. apartments adjacent to the campus during final exams week. Shown from left: Rev. Cheryl Cavalari, director of the Northeast Regional Ministry in Higher Education; Nicole Sabatura; Laura Loeffler; Katie Dale; Ardeth Dale, Youth Group Advisor. Second row: Eric Kowalek; Andrew Dale; David Kowalek; Jordy Spencer; Chris Plominski, Penn It's easy to subscribe. o Use the handy coupon on page 2 Have something to say? Send it to: dalpost@aol.com Include a name and phone number where you can be reached. 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