The sewage system project being developed in Connoquenessing Township has input from its supervisors and residents, who are working together to create a plan affordable to the township.

Bill Long, a former member of the Connoquenessing Township Sewer Authority and a longtime resident of the township, said the original proposal for the plan was too expensive and too invasive, which the supervisors scaled back following feedback from residents.

The original proposal had a cost of $22 million “servicing the southeastern portion of Connoquenessing Township and a small section of Connoquenessing borough,” according to the sewer authority’s website.

The plan is being developed to comply with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Act 537, but the sewer authority is “working to provide public sewage to residents and businesses in a proactive manner on its own schedule and terms.”

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