Municipal News
- Last Updated on Saturday, 29 August 2015 15:40
By Miranda Startare
At the August 4 monthly borough meeting, New Eagle Council discussed the active summer the borough’s street department has been having. With an unusually wet first half of the summer, some maintenance issues have arisen related to catch basins.
The crew has been busy cleaning and repairing the catch basins throughout the summer with more to continue, according to Council.
An 80-foot pipe is also being installed in a catch basin on the 400 block of Second Avenue between Clifton and Marion as an overflow.
Other recent work in the borough included the removal of 18 truckloads of debris from New Eagle by a crew from the Washington County Work Release Program.
Council also reported issuing 76 citations for grass violations and not displaying house numbers. Additionally, a number of junk vehicles were removed from the borough.
Council also has a hearing scheduled for a property at 500 Fourth Avenue related to code violations.
Monongahela Police Chief Brian Tempest also spoke at the meeting, reporting an incident that had occurred earlier that day, as an individual arrested on a warrant by Southwest Regional Police escaped custody and was temporarily at large in the borough.
The man had escaped out a window of the police car wearing his handcuffs and was located by a New Eagle Street Department employee who saw the man entering a residence in the borough.
The man, who was hiding in a closet in the residence, was apprehended without incident.
