Bowmanstown has received correspondence from homeowners concerned about flooding issues.

The property owners who have the Fireline Creek behind their properties had contacted the borough concerned about the matter.

Council members Rob Moyer and Darren Thomas said at Tuesday’s workshop that the creek at the back of their properties are on the homeowners’ private properties.

Looking at DEPs guidance document for maintaining streams and the photos provided, council determined that a lot of the actions that would clean up this area (remove debris, man-made materials, sediment from the culvert (pipe) and removal of brush can all be accommodated without DEP notification or permits from an engineering perspective.

Stream cleaning permits from DEP are normally used to remove large sediment deposits and those permits were applied for by the property owners in the area of the stream.

“I think people are thinking, ‘there’s a right-of-way,’” Thomas said. “The actual stream is not in our right of way. There’s a sewer right-of-way back there; but, that’s not where the stream is.”