This Picturesque View Is Of The Greater Hazleton and surrounding Area Will Show The True Story Of What We Live With On A Day To Day Basis.

Past Deep Pit Coal Mining Has Raped And Robbed This Area
Of All It’s Scenic Beauty And Left Some Nasty Scars Here

Before we get into some of the picturesque scenes from the area, I thought I would bring up two important issues that face the Hazleton Area. 

Water  One is the concern of the water quality in the Hazleton area.  I thought about writing this as I saw a lady carry out a water cooler she had purchased from K-Mart.  I thought to myself "another person who doesn't drink the water".  My husband and I haven't drank the water here for a year now.  It's amazing that you can do without the smell of Chlorine.  Do we really know what's in the water, not for sure, but when it comes from a reservoir only a mile and a quarter from the old Berylium site and pumped from the Hudsondale dam, which has connections to the Still Creek Reservoir, which had problems in the past.  Also, not to forget the arsenic found in #6 well at McAdoo.  I'm sorry I will not drink it, I don't even water my plants with it.  Copies of the local water company reports are available on the EPA Envirofacts board at  www.epa.gov/enviro/ by clicking on water then in the SDWIS block type in the zip code.

Sewer   People in the surrounding area of Hazleton just paid exorbitant fees to be connected to the sewer system, when in reality Hazleton has a Combined Sewer Outfall system.  What that means is when it rains or there is an access of water, valves are opened and the water flows out supposedly to creeks, not, onto the land, rain water and sewage.  There are 15 valves all together that open to 13 outfalls.  I know personally of a few.  One flows under a bridge and under the Thomas Market on the 940 road, another is in Cranberry and flows to the property just remediated, the next flows along Hollars Hill Road and pours out on the side of the road across from the old entrance to the Old Hazleton City Landfill, the next flows out of a tunnel that runs under Broad St and flows out next to the UGI building on North Poplar St. and the last one I know of, and the largest flows on to the old Hazleton City Landfill and looks like a large reservoir.  Verification of what I have said is located on the Greater Hazleton Joint Sewer Authority Page  at www.ghjsa.org  then click on CSO.

Here are the pictures to document my statements.

 

 

 

 

Site Of The Former Kawecki-Berylco, Beryllium Plant In Ashmore,
East Of Hazleton.  Dr. Dessen said this plant would boast Hazleton's economy,
instead it killed hundreds of people who contacted Beryliosis, like Bertha.
  Land Is Now Owned By Cabot Corp.