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File #: 12775-23    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 8/11/2023 In control: Chief Clerk
On agenda: 8/15/2023 Final action: 10/10/2023
Title: An Ordinance of the County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, authorizing Land Reclamation Group, LLC, an environmental services company, to enter onto County property for the purpose of completing a stream restoration project at Pierson Run in the County’s Boyce Park.
Sponsors: Chief Executive
Attachments: 1. 12775-23 Pierson Stream Summary.docx, 2. 31-23-OR 12775-23.pdf
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An Ordinance of the County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, authorizing Land Reclamation Group, LLC, an environmental services company, to enter onto County property for the purpose of completing a stream restoration project at Pierson Run in the County’s Boyce Park.

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Whereas, the County is the owner of approximately nine hundred forty-nine (949) acres of real property in Plum Borough identified as Block and Lot Number 975-L-380 and known generally as Boyce Park; and

Whereas, a local stream called the Pierson Run tributary runs through Boyce Park; and

Whereas, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has designated the Pierson Run tributary as impaired for sediment and siltation and qualifies for stream restoration following the guidance set forth in Pennsylvania Turnpike Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems” (MS4) permit; and

Whereas, Land Reclamation Group, LLC, an environmental services company located in Pittsburgh, wishes to enter onto a portion of Boyce Park for the purpose of completing a stream restoration project at Pierson Run; and

Whereas, the County recognizes that Land Reclamation Group LLC’s the resulting work on the stream restoration project at Pierson Run will reduce the discharge of pollutants and protect water quality at Pierson Run and will provide sediment reduction credit to the Pennsylvania Turnpike which is required to reduce its pollutant loading into the Ohio River Watershed; and

Whereas, the County Parks Department and the Allegheny County Parks Foundation have reviewed the proposal presented by Land Reclamation Group, LLC to complete the stream restoration project at Pierson Run and jointly recommend its approval; and

Whereas, County Council recognizes that the granting of permission to Land Reclamation Group, LLC to enter onto Boyce Park property to complete the stream restoration project at Pierson Run will inure to the benefit of the citizens of Allegheny County by reducing the discha...

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