Caterpillar spraying to begin

DAVID HULSE
Posted 8/21/12

MILFORD, PA — State-contracted pilots are waiting for “a week of perfect weather,” Kelly Rodemich, Pike’s gypsy-moth-spray-program coordinator, reported to the county commissioners on May 18. …

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Caterpillar spraying to begin

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MILFORD, PA — State-contracted pilots are waiting for “a week of perfect weather,” Kelly Rodemich, Pike’s gypsy-moth-spray-program coordinator, reported to the county commissioners on May 18. Wet weather works with state’s Bt, non-chemical spray, providing a platform for the resulting fungus that kills the caterpillars.

Principal spraying will be concentrated in two areas of state forest, largely in Palmyra Township on the eastern shore of Lake Wallenpaupack. Areas to be included are White Deer Lake off State Route 402 bordering Blooming Grove Township and a larger tract south of Interstate 84 west of its State Route 390 intersection and six privately owned Palmyra tracts near the eastern shore of Wallenpaupack.

In other business at their brief regular meeting, the commissioners rejected the May 5, $163,606 bid of Grimm Construction for a cooler and generator enclosure project at the Pike County Correctional Facility, saying the county engineer had found it “excessive,” and in excess of budgeted funds.

Saying there were questions from the bidders about the supplier of concrete for the abutments, the commissioners will work with the engineer about those questions and agreed to extend the bid opening for the replacement of the Mink’s Pond Road Bridge in Lehman Township until June 1.

The commissioners received six bids for provision of various foodstuffs at the correctional facility and tabled them for review until June 1.

They appointed commissioners Matt Osterberg and Steven Guccini as principal and alternate county representatives, planning director Michael Mrzinski and transportation director Christine Kerstetter as principal and alternate at-large representatives to two fiscal-year terms at the Northeastern PA Metropolitan Planning Organization.

At their May 10 conference meeting, the commissioners unanimously accepted the $10,050 proposal of Pillar Masonry for the replacement of the Area Agency on Aging Senior Center entranceway in Blooming Grove and the $4,945 proposal of Bee Right There Maintenance for the vinyl replacement in the kitchen and dining area of the senior center.

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