Gormley Speaks About Plans for Sewage Treatment Plant in #NewtownPA

At the September 6, 2023, Newtown Borough Council Meeting, Mr. Warren Gormley - executive director of the Newtown, Bucks County Joint Municipal Authority - informed Council members that the Authority is investigating the possibility of acquiring land and building its own sewage treatment plant in Newtown Township. The Authority is looking into the feasibility of acquiring a 17.5-acre tract on Lower Silver Lake Road for the construction of a state-of-the-art treatment facility to serve the authority’s 9,000 customers in Newtown Township and Newtown Borough. NOTE: The site is the same site that KRE developers plan to build a multi-story apartment building (read “Developer Challenges Validity Of Zoning Ordinance In #NewtownPA Township”; https://sco.lt/7R2bq4). Is Newtown Township "On Board" with the plan? “We’ve talked to the Department of Environmental Resources (DEP) and the DEP is on board with us. We also talked to the township and they are on board as well*,” said Gormley. *As far as I can recall, this has NOT come before the Newtown Board of Supervisors at a public meeting. So, unless by "talked to township" Gormley means unofficial, non-public conversations with one or more supervisors or Township Manager or other officials, I do not believe it is accurate to say that the township is "on board" with the Sewer Authority's plan to develop a treatment plant on Lower Silver Lake Road. More...https://sco.lt/7rUKbg