Ringtown to investigate potential impacts of new spring water plant on borough water supply
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL FILE - Ringtown Borough Hall, seen in 2017.
RINGTOWN – Ringtown Borough plans to investigate what impacts, if any, a planned water extraction plant in Zion Grove may have on its municipal water supply.
The Ringtown Borough Water Department is served by two wells in town which, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), can pull up to 108,000 gallons of water per day.
About three miles north of town, KH Spring Waters, LLC, is seeking regulatory approval to pull 75,000 gallons of water per day from two wells on the former Kuzma property on Catawissa Creek Road near Labenberg Road in North Union Township.
KH Holdings, LLC owns the property and KH Spring Waters, LLC, will operate the plant, according to the application filed with the Susquehanna River Basin Commission. It is a federal-interstate coordinating agency responsible for the Susquehanna River watershed.
On incorporation paperwork filed with the state, both companies list their president as Raymond A. Hassey, a Wilkes-Barre area attorney. The address for the company is also listed as being in Wilkes-Barre Township. The address on the Schuylkill County Parcel Locator is a Hassey-owned property in Exeter. KH Holdings acquired the land in 2016 for $1 from Ann E. Kuzma, according to the parcel locator.
The project has been controversial and drew a standing-room only crowd to a North Union Township Supervisors meeting earlier this year where company representatives were on hand to explain the project.
Many of those residents feared impacts on wells in the area. Residents across the valley receive water via well, either private well or through Ringtown Borough or Veolia Water.
“Should we have Scott check into that,” Ringtown Borough Council Vice President Tom Murray said at Monday’s borough meeting, referring to Scott Schuetrum, borough foreman.
“I’ll make some inquiries about it,” Schuetrum said. “We did the same thing, even though it was Brandonville, we did the same thing when that bottling plant went in.”
In other business, borough council approved a request on behalf of the Wagon Wheel to close Cherry Street near the bar on August 23 to allow for a cornhole tournament.
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