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Just saw this.

A Harrisburg-based homebuilder must correct erosion and sedimentation violations at a Hampden Township development site that resulted in pollution in Conodoguinet Creek.

The McNaughton Company must also pay a civil penalty of $46,733 under a settlement agreement reached recently with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

Under the agreement, McNaughton must correct violations reported at Good Hope Farms South in Hampden and The Woods and Faire Wynd sites in Newberry and Dover townships, York County.

I wonder if the local zoning and permitting authorities for respective townships and boroughs followed this.

Rachel Diamond is southcentral regional director for DEP. She said McNaughton Homes obtained national pollutant discharge elimination system permits for earth disturbance activities at all three sites.

“Despite repeated attempts by the respective conservation districts and the department, the company failed to comply with the terms of those permits,” Diamond said.

Multiple inspections between November 2003 and November 2006 by the conservation districts revealed that McNaughton Homes failed to implement and maintain erosion and sedimentation control best management practices.

This looks fun, coming up in a few weeks.

I wish they had their own website, but since they don't, I'll link elsewhere, but regardless, for those around Mechanicsburg...

The Wing Company has kick-ass wings, a couple dozen flavors, and are really, really, really delicious. Can you tell I like them? Can you?

I should just expect this. Almost every time we hold a party during the summer - one in which we expect a lot of kids, and that they will be playing outside - we get a less than sunny forecast for the day of the party. It's 9:45 AM and I still don't have a clue of what kind of weather to expect for 4 PM, because the weather service has gone from SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS to SUNNY ALL DAY to SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS in the course of 12 hours. We'll see in six hours.

And now, for your entertainment pleasure:

From Gettysburg...

I do have a story about the spring on Orrs Bridge Road that is a common place for drivers to stop at to wash their windshields off and wet their feet.

Last Sunday, as I was driving my daughter back from softball tournament team tryouts, we passed the spring and I saw a man taking photos of a rather scantily clad woman dressed in some sort of animal - maybe leopard - pattern outfit. She was posing - you know the cheesecake kinds of poses - and they did catch my attention but I then forgot about it. My daughter didn't notice at all.

Later on my wife and daughter took a bike ride, and they went past the spring as well, and the photo session was still going on. My wife and daughter passed them and continued on. But later, when they returned, the couple weren't at the spring, but in the trees and high weeds a little further off the road, and my wife noticed the woman quickly putting on a top - apparently she was naked, at least halfway. My wife didn't say anything to our daughter, and the assumption was that our daughter didn't see anything.

A couple of days later, though, our daughter declared "You know that woman we saw wearing the spotted outfit? She was in the wood when we were coming back, and she was naked!"

Of course our six year old picked up on that. "She was naked? In the woods? NAKED?!?!?!?! Why was she naked??"

I'm glad I didn't get the job of explaining photo exhibitionism to our kids. Yet.

There's a spring fountain located on Orrs Bridge Road in Hampden Township. Made out of stone, and it looks... quite old. Is there a story about it? Lots of people stop at it every day to get water, I assume to clean their windshields or... I don't know. But when was it built? There's a very good amount of water runs out of it, so I can see it as being necessary to keep Orrs Bridge from flooding or freezing. A photo below - if you have a story about it, please post in comments.

Curious story about $8000 worth of stamps bought in Camp Hill.

For posting this list of 2007 Summer Festivals. VERY useful.

And not just at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Camp Hill, PA. There are Greek Festivals going on all over the country...

Rutgers
North Carolina
Oakland
New Orleans

For more proof, just check out the blogging trend for "Greek Festival"...

Posts that contain "greek Festival" per day for the last 30 days.

Get your own chart!

Off to speak there, but not participating in this...

Yesterday's CV School District Result:

A newcomer to politics, Dr. Steve Verber, a dentist, won the both the Republican and Democratic nomination for the single seat representing Hampden Township. Verber, who co-founded the Cumberland Valley Youth Basketball Association and the Eagle Foundation, received 66.06 percent of the Democratic vote while running against board hopeful Craig Caba and 52.84 percent of the Republican vote over Mike Ross.

I voted today. It's still a big surprise to me how few Democrats are on the local primary ballots - this county is still dominated by the Republican party...

I wish there were more blogs like this in our area. There's certainly room in Central Pennsylvania for more amateur - and professional - naturalist and environmental blogs.

I mean, one that I will read.

Down by the Susquehanna in Harrisburg.

Coming soon, May 18-20 in Camp Hill. I can almost taste the Souvlaki now!!