PENNSYLVANIA Officials searching for junk violations



They've already sent out 113 violation notices.
PULASKI, Pa. -- Township supervisors aren't finished with their quest to rid the township of junk.
Supervisor Lewis Grell said they plan to take another look at the entire township, searching for abandoned cars, machinery, equipment and refuse.
Under inspection
The township started enforcing a junk nuisance ordinance last year by dividing the township into nine zones to be inspected by township officials.
Grell said they had sent 113 junk ordinance violation notices out so far. They settled 92 and the rest are either pending in court or judgments had been made but not satisfied yet, he said.
Grell said they will take another look at the entire township in September or October for any that were missed in the first inspection.
"We probably won't get 100. My guess there will be 10 to 20 more," he said of the citations. Grell explained that some may have been missed in the first inspection because they may have been shielded by leaves, trees and snow or there are some who were cited earlier and have gone back to accumulating more junk.
"It has made a great improvement," Supervisor Dan Abramson said of the cleanup effort.
In other business, supervisors agreed to create a labor pool to help the road crew on an as-needed basis.
Abramson said he will call out extra workers only if full-and-part-time workers are unavailable because of vacation or illness. He said the labor pool is needed because road crews have only a limited number of days to repair roads and a full crew is needed each day. Salaries were not set.