SANATOGA PA – The emergency operations center for Lower Pottsgrove Township, located in the municipal building at 2199 Buchert Rd., Sanatoga PA, has received new equipment purchased with grant money provided under the Radiation Protection Act (Act 147) of 1984, township Acting Police Chief Michael Foltz recently reported to the Board of Commissioners.
The center now includes an all-in-one printer-fax-copier-scanner, a high-definition television and its accompanying cables and mounting brackets, and two cordless telephone systems. Foltz said the purchase of weather monitoring equipment for the center is still pending.
The 28-year-old act established a statewide radiation protection program that included licensing and registration for facilities that produced radiation, a nuclear safety program, and emergency response capability and remediation action programs, according to Pennsylvania’s Bureau of Radiation Protection.
Money is annually set aside by the state to help equip municipalities to prepare for potential radiation emergencies. Lower Pottsgrove qualified because its operation center would direct first responders in case of an emergency involving Exelon’s Limerick Generating Station.
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All that gear will be useless if power is not provided. An emergency generator with fuel supply is essential to power this gear. The other aspect of this is defining the personal needed to man this center it’s mission, and training.
Important that supplies be present for these people and other possible supplies, gear, and equipment for use in defined emergencies.
Let’s move out on the power backup system.
Ed, for the record, the power back-up system has already been engineered, budgeted and approved by the Board of Commissioners. The smaller, less adequate generators now in us remain in place until then. Probably looking at a couple of months until the switch. But when the opportunity to obtain grant money comes the township’s way, and it must either leap at it or let it pass, I think it’s probably wiser to leap … don’t you?