Litter is a blemish along many streets and highways and Route 902 in Summit Hill is no exception.

A difference, said a Summit Hill resident, is that it might lead to dangerous travel conditions especially at areas of the White Bear Hill.

Nancy Kerestus recently expressed her concerns to Summit Hill Borough Council and said efforts made to have the problem remedied were fruitless.

She said the main problem is that the garbage along the road gets into the grates along the roadway and create flooding conditions, which is a hazard itself but freezes in winter.

She said she called two state representatives, the county commissioners and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation but didn’t get responses to her satisfaction.

PennDOT, she said, removed the debris from the top of the grates but not the pile of garbage inside them.

She said she was told the county doesn’t have its summer cleanup program for teens this year which in other years picked up litter along the highways.

She inquired, she told the council, whether county prisoners could do the clean-up work but was told it was too dangerous for them.

Kerestus said she and her husband also contacted state Reps. Jerry Knowles, who is retired, and Doyle Heffley, who suggested she contact local Boy Scout troops to determine if they might take on the project.

She said, “Winter will be here ... and it will freeze up and run over the road.”

“Is there anything you can do?” she asked the council.

She was advised that this is a state highway so borough workers wouldn’t do the clean-up work.

Council member William O’Gurek asked her for a list of the grates that are blocked and he “will contact PennDOT and legislators.”

“It’s horrendous to see that,” she said of the litter and blocked grates. “It’s dangerous when the grates are that full.”