Weissport Council President Tom Ketchledge advised Council that he had received an email from the Army Corps of Engineers that the Borough of Weissport was awarded $200,000 from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

This will pay the borough’s portion of the levee repair work. The entire project cost is $750,000.

Once the $200,000 is deposited into the borough’s accounts, it will be sent to the Army Corps of Engineers, who expect to do the repair work before the end of 2024.

Engineer Mike Muffley asked borough council in a message read by Solicitor Greg Mousseau, to award the bid for scoping lines of the levee, pending Engineering review of the bids, to Utility Services Group of Camp Hill, who had the low bid of $7,500.

The Army Corps is looking to set up three staging areas from which the work will be done: near the White Street playground, Franklin Avenue near the park, and near Hofford Mill.

The levee was built in 1934. Weissport took over the maintenance of the levee around 1960. The Army Corps of Engineers, which must help repair the levee if it has been damaged by weather, takes turns with the Department of Environmental Protection to do an annual inspection.