SANATOGA PA – From the way Bruce Foltz says things are going with lawn mower clippings in Sanatoga village, maybe a summer drought isn’t so bad.
Ready to create havoc on Hause Avenue.
Foltz, vice president of the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Board of Commissioners, continued last week (Sept. 7, 2010) to hunt for some form of legal enforcement against a Hause Avenue property owner who, he claimed, has created a neighborhood annoyance by “turning the street green” with clippings blown there from the discharge chute of his lawn mower.
Foltz first raised the clippings issue during the board’s Aug. 2 meeting, saying he’d heard about it from plenty of angry residents. The offensive neighbor was approached by township officials, who asked him to be more considerate. That didn’t help.
There’s gotta be a law against this, Foltz assumed last month, looking for a way to force a resolution. Turns out, there’s not. Or at least, not yet.
At the time, Foltz speculated the clippings created a potential pollution problem by clogging curbside storm sewers. Following up on his request, township staff apparently did some research and concluded that seemingly applicable laws covered “snow and ice, but not trash and debris,” according to township engineering representative Chad Camburn of Bursich Associates, who reported last week to the board during its meeting in the municipal building.
Then maybe there should be a law, Foltz mused.
He publicly asked the staff to do some more checking (they said they would) and suggested if they found nothing else then possibly the commissioners could consider an ordinance banning such mowing behavior. None of the other board members present – President Jonathan Spadt, Michael McGroarty, or James Kaiser – said anything.
A significant lack of rainfall in recent weeks has created drought conditions and grass fire hazards across portions of the Northeastern United States, including parts of the Greater Philadelphia area, weather forecasters say. Consequently, grass isn’t growing too quickly anywhere … even on Hause Avenue.
Related:
Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners’ meeting of Sept. 7):
- Green, Or Maybe Now Brown, Grass Still A Hause Ave. Problem
- Lower Pottsgrove Officer Chosen For FBI Academy
- Township Approves Planning Map Changes
- Commissioners OK Tax-Reduction District Research
- ‘Patient Investigator’ Township’s Officer Of The Year
- Lower Pottsgrove To PennDOT: Good Job, Guys
- Township Examines Tax-Break District Potential
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What a colossal waste of time and thought and consternation…
Worry about the economy, get more business into the township. Increase our jobs and tax base…
Worry a bout grass clippings? Write a law ?
Don’t wase my time and tax money on this drivel.
I would think these neighbors need to stop there bickering and realize they are doing nothing but making a situation fester on and on…