Rush Township supervisors said road crews will be repairing a number of streets.

One of them - Bernhard Road - is in deplorable condition, a township resident told supervisors at Thursday’s board meeting.

“It’s a mess,” he said.

Supervisor Robert Leibensperger said Bernhard is one of the 13 township roads that need “major work.”

Others include Golf Road, Messerschmidt Street, Shawn Avenue and Charles Street.

Bernhard Road is riddled with stretches of potholes, and township crews will complete a temporary patch and pave. The road will need more extensive work - and that will likely begin in 2024.

“We’ll keep it that you can drive on it until we can get up there and get it taken care of,” Chairman Shawn Gilbert said.

Leibensperger said crews should get to Bernhard for temporary repairs soon.

“It’s just that we have so many things going at one time,” Leibensperger said. “Our four guys are entirely busy, constantly. But they’re getting there.”

He said that 150 tons of stone placed on a stretch of Stony Road was completely washed away by last Monday’s downpours, so crews need at least three days to repair it.

They’ll also need to address Messerschmidt Street, which leads to Grier City Park and also has quite a few potholes, Leibensperger said.

“We have to do that one right away because there is a school lunch program over there and we have kids there who go in for school lunches on a bus,” he said.

In an unrelated matter, the board approved sharing municipal public work services like equipment and personnel with the borough of Tamaqua.

“We just utilized that today because we had 200 feet of storm drain blocked on Dennison and Cumberland. It was totally blocked. They came up,” Leibensperger said.