Whitehall council last night unanimously passed a resolution to participate in a joint feasibility study of the Streets Run watershed sanitary sewer system. The study is intended to provide mapping, flow monitoring and current capacity of the joint interceptor sewer line shared with Baldwin Borough, Brentwood, Pleasant Hills and West Mifflin.

The study of the 5-mile-long line, which runs from Whitehall to the Hays section of Pittsburgh, is being done in compliance to the state Department of Environmental Protection's consent order and will determine appropriate updates or improvements to be completed by 2013. Borough engineer Ruthann Omer said sharing the cost of the estimated $100,000 study makes good sense and that data from the study must be presented to DEP by the end of next year. She said this joint effort is the only such project being done by the 83 communities affected by the administrative consent order.

The interceptor line is part of the ALCOSAN system and data provided by the study will benefit mandated improvements to the county's treatment facilities.

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