Showing posts with label Tinicum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tinicum. Show all posts

August 22, 2010

"Water report nears completion"

By Amanda Cregan, Intelligencer, August 22, 2010:
As officials grapple with a declining supply, the goal is to translate complicated information into an understandable form.

After a decade of collecting and charting well water samples they say show a looming groundwater crisis in Upper Bucks, residents and local officials will soon have the information in hand.

June 5, 2010

Tinicum: "Development ruling will be appealed"

By Amanda Cregan, Intelligencer, June 3, 2010: "A Bucks judge ruled that Tinicum has gone too far in its efforts to limit development, in response to a developer's appeal of the restrictions. The township is appealing. . . ."

November 5, 2009

"Stimulus money will help clean streams in Tinicum"

By Amanda Cregan, PhillyBurbs.com, November 4, 2009:
Federal stimulus money will help keep road dirt out of Tinicum's creeks and streams.

The township is poised to spend $600,000 on a new environmentally friendly technique, which grounds, compacts and applies stone gravel in way that keeps the sediment from eventually rolling into creek beds and building up in the township's watershed. . . .

August 28, 2009

"Water 'hot spots' starting to crop up"

PhillyBurbs.com: "Water 'hot spots' starting to crop up," by Amanda Cregan, Intelligencer, August 19, 2009: "Tinicum supervisors had their first look at recent groundwater reports Tuesday night. Although much of the attention has focused on Palisades High School and surrounding neighborhoods, The Bridgeton-Nockamixon-Tinicum Groundwater Management Committee reported some other trouble spots across Upper Bucks. . . ."

April 7, 2009

"Tinicum in epic battle with developer"

PhillyBurbs.com, April 6, 2009: "It's been five years since developers began their fight to build an apartment complex, townhomes, residential neighborhoods and a shopping center across 240 acres in Tinicum. Scores of township hearings later, neither Main Street Development nor township supervisors nor members of ECO-Bucks, a grassroots citizens group fighting to preserve the rural character of Tinicum, are backing down from the fight."