The seemingly never-ending saga of water extraction again figures to be a hotly contested topic of conversation at tonight's West Penn Township board of supervisors meeting.

The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the West Penn Fire Company. A budget meeting will be held at 6 p.m.Recently, discolored water left at least one family - and reportedly others - without a clean source of water.Supervisors Chairman Jim Dean said the township received notice of the situation last weekend, and made phone calls to the township's code enforcement officer, DEP, DRBC and the Department of Agriculture."They are all looking at this basically under a microscope," Dean said.While he's viewed the photographs of the discolored water, Dean said the township "cannot say it is from the water extraction.""We have to as a township defer to the government agencies that oversee water extraction," he said.Dean said that while rumors are going around that there are a number of other homes faced with the same dilemma, "I have no validation of that at all."After viewing the photos, Dean said, "to me, personally, that was appalling.""As an individual, if it were my house, I'd be upset too," he said. "I'm as frustrated as they are, and my heart goes out to them immensely."In June, supervisors on a 2-1 vote, accepted a $6,000 donation from MC Resource Development, the existing water extraction operation in neighboring East Brunswick Township.The matter came to light after township solicitor Holly Heintzelman said she received a letter dated May 31 signed by Jay Land, president and owner of Ringgold Acquisition Group II LLC, at the proposed West Penn site on 1 Fort Franklin Road.In the letter, Land said the check and donation was from MC Resource Development, and not himself, and that it is the result of a promise made to the township roadmaster in 2015. He said that MC Resource Development made a similar donation at that time.Land said the donation is made to the general road fund, and should be used at the discretion of the roadmaster as directed by the board of supervisors. However, there is no requirement that it be used on Kepners Road.On Jan. 13, a group of residents filed a lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia County against businesses and people associated with water extraction operations in the township. The lawsuit was filed by 30 plaintiffs who live near a pair of water extraction sites, according to their attorney, John Kotsatos, of the Law Offices of John E. Kotsatos in Easton.At the center of the lawsuit is the water extraction site at the intersection of Kepners Road and Blue Mountain Drive, and a newer water extraction site being erected at 1 Fort Franklin Road.