Mars residents, council speak on power station expansion
MARS – Residents of the borough, along with council members, raised concerns about the expansion of a FirstEnergy power station on Clay Avenue at a Mars Borough Council meeting Monday night.
Lavaughn Molnar, a Mars resident who lives near the plant, attended the meeting with two of her neighbors. She said that expansions and construction began after Labor Day at the plant and have continued since.
Citing concerns about safety living close to a power plant, she added that she was worried the expansion would affect the value of her and her neighbors’ property.
“When I bought my house, the Realtor looked into all that. Due to the size of the power plant, we were safe. (The expansion) just took the value of my house down a lot,” Molnar said.
Borough council president Mike Fleming said the board was not informed of the scope of the plant’s expansion, and said he wanted to meet with FirstEnergy to get further information.
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