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The Main Line of Public Works was a package of legislation passed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1826 [a] to establish a means of transporting freight [b] between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. It funded the construction of various long-proposed canal and road projects, mostly in southern Pennsylvania, that became a canal system and later ...
Compare this map with its major roads of today and its terrains with the above canal system map. The Susquehanna Canal of the Pennsylvania Canal System was funded and authorized as part of the 1826 Main Line of Public Works enabling act, and would later become the Susquehanna Division of the Pennsylvania Canal under the Pennsylvania Canal Commission.
In October 1988, the Environmental Protection Agency awarded a $4,791,540 grant to the Greater Greensburg Sewage Authority for use in making major improvements to sewer lines in the communities it served and in upgrading its sewage treatment plant on Route 119. $780,000 of that grant was dedicated to repairing Hempfield Township sewer lines ...
Construction of the interceptor system required 318 million bricks, 2.7 million cubic metres of excavated earth and 670,000 cubic metres of concrete. [88] Gravity allowed the sewage to flow eastwards, but in places such as Chelsea, Deptford and Abbey Mills, pumping stations were
The South Connellsville Municipal Authority has overseen sewerage enforcement services, having operated the public sewer system since 1951. [10] In the 1980s an inter-municipal pipeline was placed, which sends all wastewater to the Connellsville Municipal Authority in Connellsville.
The Horsham Water and Sewer Authority provides water and sewer service in the township. The water system in Horsham Township consists of 15 wells, five above-ground storage tanks, and 103 miles (166 km) of distribution lines, serving 7,042 customers. [24]
Pennsylvania Route 248 (PA 248) is a 31.3 mi (50.4 km) long state highway in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The western terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 209 (US 209) in Weissport East , a CDP in Franklin Township .
NY 17 is briefly in Pennsylvania in the borough of South Waverly: US 222: 90: 140 US 222 in Fulton Township: I-78/PA 222/PA 309 in Dorneyville, PA: 1926: current US 224: 10: 16 US 224 in Mahoning Township: PA 18 in New Castle: 1933: current US 230: 40: 64 US 22 in Harrisburg: US 30 in Lancaster: 1928: 1967 Now PA 230 and PA 283: US 309