Presenter
Presented by Mr. Shields
Title
Resolution authorizing the City of Pittsburgh to be designated as the Local Sponsor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Protection's Streets Run Watershed remediation plan.
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WHEREAS, for decades serious flooding and resulting damages have occurred along Streets Run Creek in the Hays section of the City of Pittsburgh's 31st Ward.
WHEREAS, the flooding, documented as far back as 1953, has endangered the public's health, safety and welfare and has repeatedly caused private and public property losses, denigrated the quality of life of resident and business owner alike, disrupted commerce due to extensive damage to public rights-of-way, and has damaged and, at times, rendered a city fire station useless; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Environmental Protection (“PA DEP”) of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has agreed to design and construct flood protection system along Streets Run Creek; and
WHEREAS, the PA DEP will undertake this project for 80% of the total construction cost and, furthermore, the Commonwealth's legislature has acted to secured the necessary capital funds to perform this public works project. Additionally, the PA DEP has already expended in excess of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) on preliminary design efforts in support of this much needed flood control project; and,
WHEREAS, the last leg of Streets Run Creek goes into an underground channel from the present Galvtech steel galvanizing plant in Hays to the creek's terminus at the Monongehela River which is situated within the Borough of West Homestead. Portions of this underground conveyance have recently collapsed in two separate areas situated in the parking lot of the Sandcastle Waterslide Park. Portions of said lot are within both the City and the Borough of West Homestead. These collapsed areas now create a clear and present danger as an obstruction to the storm flow of the Streets Run....
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