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Middletown supervisors authorize engagement with DEP, counsel after Newtown wastewater-plant proposal
Summary
Middletown Township supervisors voted to authorize a letter to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and to retain outside environmental counsel as they begin legal and engineering review of a proposed Newtown Bucks Joint Municipal Authority wastewater treatment plant abutting township borders.
Middletown Township supervisors on Jan. 14 authorized township officials to begin formal participation in state and local review of a proposed Newtown Bucks Joint Municipal Authority wastewater treatment plant and to notify the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection that Middletown is an interested party.
The move follows several weeks of public concern after reports that the authority plans a new treatment facility on land adjacent to Morton’s Mill in Newtown. Township Solicitor John Esposito told the board he had retained environmental counsel Mark Fried to lead permit- and litigation-related review and that the township would pursue two primary avenues: participation in DEP environmental permitting and involvement in Newtown Township…
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