Siglerville-Millheim Pike Stillhouse Hollow and Havice Valley Roads Bald Eagle State Forest
Volunteers devoted two days in April, 2002, to remove trash from three areas of Bald Eagle State Forest, Mifflin County.
Local residents, members of the PA CleanWays Chapter of Mifflin County, PA Cabin Lessees Association, Milroy Fire Company, Armagh Township, and Mid-State RC&D donated more than 150 hours of their time and sweat equity to the project. Four tons of trash, nearly two tons of scrap metal, and 422 tires were gathered from Siglerville-Millheim Pike, Stillhouse Hollow and Havice Valley roads. Numerous appliances, bedsprings, furniture, toilets, and bottles and cans were among the items gathered for proper disposal and recycling on April 19 and 20.
Krentzman's provided a roll-off container and scrap metal hauling and the Armagh Township road crew with Supervisor Leroy Goss donated their time and equipment to help remove bulky items April 19. On April 20, volunteers met at the nearby Unimart Travel Center and carpooled to the sites, bagging trash and hauling tires to the roadside. Township personnel helped transport bags of trash to two roll-off containers located at the central site at Havice Valley Road. Tires were removed to a waiting truck for immediate hauling by S&S Recycling.
Trash was taken to the Mifflin County Solid Waste Authority. Park's Garbage Service provided hauling. The Original Italian Pizza of Milroy provided lunch.
Removal of trash at the Stillhouse Hollow Road site was completed, and although significant progress was made on the other sites, a second cleanup phase is planned for fall 2002 to complete the projects.
DCNR encourages Mifflin County residents to contact the Mifflin County Solid Waste Authority with disposal and recycling questions by phone at (717) 242-3301 or by e-mail.
"The success of this Bald Eagle cleanup project can wholly be attributed to the hard work and commitment of our great volunteers and the local organizations and businesses that supported our efforts," said Kimbra Shoop, field specialist for PA CleanWays.
Bald Eagle State Forest acreage is located in Centre, Clinton, Mifflin, Snyder and Union counties. It includes seven natural area and four state parks. It was named for the famous Indian Chief Bald Eagle and comprises 195,624 acres in the ridge and valley section of the state, with sandstone ridges rising up to 2,300 feet above sea level. The many streams in the area have their origin in the forest and flow in several directions, eventually emptying into the Susquehanna River, with one-third of the acreage serving as public watershed.
Local residents, members of the PA CleanWays Chapter of Mifflin County, PA Cabin Lessees Association, Milroy Fire Company, Armagh Township, and Mid-State RC&D donated more than 150 hours of their time and sweat equity to the project. Four tons of trash, nearly two tons of scrap metal, and 422 tires were gathered from Siglerville-Millheim Pike, Stillhouse Hollow and Havice Valley roads. Numerous appliances, bedsprings, furniture, toilets, and bottles and cans were among the items gathered for proper disposal and recycling on April 19 and 20.
Krentzman's provided a roll-off container and scrap metal hauling and the Armagh Township road crew with Supervisor Leroy Goss donated their time and equipment to help remove bulky items April 19. On April 20, volunteers met at the nearby Unimart Travel Center and carpooled to the sites, bagging trash and hauling tires to the roadside. Township personnel helped transport bags of trash to two roll-off containers located at the central site at Havice Valley Road. Tires were removed to a waiting truck for immediate hauling by S&S Recycling.
Removal of trash at the Stillhouse Hollow Road site was completed, and although significant progress was made on the other sites, a second cleanup phase is planned for fall 2002 to complete the projects.
