Cleanup Efforts Continue Throughout the Year in Jefferson Hills
The Borough marked Earth Day last spring on April 23 by inviting our entire community to turn out and clear our roads of litter. Close to 125 people— families, scout groups, T. J. high school students and teachers, Crew Missions and Jefferson Hospital employees— met at our Municipal Center, enjoyed a breakfast hosted by Mayor Jan Cmar, then fanned out into the community for the next two hours, collecting hundreds of pounds of paper, plastic bottles and other debris. They did a great job, but the litter inevitably returned as a result of the careless and illegal behavior of walkers and vehicle occupants who choose to act irresponsibly.
To combat this unsightly return of litter throughout the year, several neighborhoods and groups have adopted their roads under the Great American Cleanup Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Program. These roads receive a sign, and the adopters agree to meet occasionally to spruce up their road. Currently in Jefferson Hills, we have four areas that have been adopted:
Old Clairton Road from Large PA to the WJHSD School District Administration Bldg.- Covelli Law Firm
Scotia Hollow Road from Rt. 51 to West Elizabeth- Crew Missions
Coal Valley Road( from Rt. 51 to Old Clairton Road)- Oakwood Drive Neighbors
West Bruceton Road Pleasant Hills Pet Hospital Employees
If your family, church, business or neighbors would like to work together and adopt a road or neighborhood in the Borough for occasional cleanup throughout the year as part of the ongoing Keep PA Beautiful campaign, contact Michelle Dunn at mdunn @ keeppabeautiful. org or Borough coordinator, Jane Milner at jmilner @ jeffersonhills. net. All of the bags, gloves and vests you need will be provided to your cleanup team.
Our spring edition of this magazine will share the volunteer information for our Earth Day 2017 community cleanup in April. Until then, let’ s all do our best to keep our beautiful neighborhoods litter free!
The Crew Missions. a faithbased volunteer program that helps homeowners with small projects in and around their homes in South Hills / Mon Valley areas of Pittsburgh, cleaned up its adopted road, Scotia Hollow Road, on November 5. l-r Larry Johnson, August Fitchett, Chelsey Gall, Nicole Phillips, Alaiza Young, Nathan Lee, Scott Robbins, Talia Booker, Jared Ogrosky
Steve Mutmansky and his six year old daughter, Jessica organized a recent cleanup of their adopted Coal Valley Road with their Oakwood Drive neighbors. l-r Fran Pugliese, Josh Milani and his mom Kathy Milani.
“ With all the help, we were basically done in an hour which was nice. It ' s a never ending battle with Coal Valley Road, but I think it helped,” said Mutmansky.
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A 2016 Public Works Update From Director Tom Lovell
2016 has been a very productive year for the Jefferson Hills Public Works Department. With asphalt prices down, the Borough was able to pave all of the roads designated for 2016 which included Towne Hall, Stevens Ridge, Shellbark, Hazelnut, Orchard Ct., Springhouse, Meadow Lane, Pearson and Farm Lane. We were also able to pave Riverview and Hogback in-house. This was approximately 11,430 Linear feet of paving— 1,300 linear feet more than 2015. In addition, Peters Creek, Knight, Dale High and Scheinbach were tarred and chipped for a total of 26,800 linear feet of road.
This year’ s rejuvenation program was also a great success with around 52,000 sq. yards of rejuvenation oils being applied to increase the longevity of our roads. Along with this, Public Works installed hundreds of feet of storm pipe and performed many storm basin repairs and replacements. With the next year’ s oil prices projected to stay low, we hope to have an even better 2017 road maintenance year. With snow season in full swing, please remember to remove all vehicles from the streets during any snow event to make snow removal easier for plow drivers. Also, please remove any sports equipment from the cul-de-sacs to prevent damage and to allow us to clean the street more productively.
Thank you for your support of our Public Works projects!
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