West Penn Township officials continue to ponder their options to remedy a faulty sewer system that has been plaguing neighboring property owners in the Andreas area.

Board of supervisors Chairman Tony Prudenti asked participants at a recent meeting to let them know if they had any ideas about what can be done to fix the sewage problem.

Sewage enforcement officer Bill Brior contacted a treatment plant in East Penn Township, not far from the Andreas area.

Brior said there is an operating treatment plant capable of handling 100,000 gallons per day that’s only utilizing 30,000 gallons per day, which could be an option for the Andreas area.

The board agreed to have township solicitor Paul J. Datte get in contact with the treatment facility in East Penn and ask what there intentions are, and what West Penn should do.

Prudenti said last month that the township planned to send out maps and letters again to everyone in that area to see if there’s any way the township can help them with Community Development Block Grant funding, low-interest loans, to see what the township can do to assist them.

From there, he said the township was going to start going after some of the other areas in the township that are problem areas and send out letters to everyone.

Prudenti said the goal is for property owners with similar issues to try to do their part to correct the issue so that the township doesn’t have to put in a sewer plant.

Prudenti previously listed three alternatives under the Act 537 plan for the Andreas area: An on-lot sewage management program ($67,600); a packaged wastewater treatment facility ($1.4 million); and a community on-lot disposal system ($1.1 million).

In the meantime, a holding tank has been put in as a temporary solution, supervisors said.