Zelie commits $2K to flood study
ZELIENOPLE — Borough council on Monday agreed to commit $2,000 to study how best to implement changes which would help stem the tide of flooding in the county’s southern tier.
Borough manager Don Pepe said Monday the group of 10 municipalities that received a study in 2021 on how to mitigate stormwater in southwest Butler County is examining the best ways to actually implement the suggestions from last year’s study.
“Part of the work that the steering group has done over the past couple months ... (is to) try to figure out where we want this group to go,“ Pepe said. ”There's a lot of potential with what this group could do.“
The municipalities — including Adams, Cranberry, Forward, Jackson, Lancaster and Penn townships, as well as Evans City, Harmony, Seven Fields and Zelienople — will now consider whether a formal approach such as a regional stormwater authority is the best way to fund and move forward with the flooding fixes, or if something like a joint purchasing agreement would be better.
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