Published August 26. 2026 10:22AM<\/p>\n
During the Aug. 20 Coplay Whitehall Sewer Authority meeting, General Manager Matt Harleman spoke about the Emerson Village phase 2 escrow release of $315,943. Harleman recommended that amount be released based on the work completed.<\/p>\n
Later in the meeting, a motion to approve the release was brought up, and the motion carried.<\/p>\n
Harleman informed the board CWSA employee Benjamin Hudak tested and received his operator license, which allows him to make process control decisions at a water or wastewater system. Now, three of four of the CWSA maintenance employees are licensed.<\/p>\n
Harleman mentioned CWSA employees Rana Hadeed and Christine Ziegler both completed their public notary registration. CWSA now has two notaries in the building.<\/p>\n
Harleman brought up the 2006 CWSA inspection truck that the board authorized the sale of at the last meeting. They did not get a minimum bid. Other options are being explored, including relisting other ways.<\/p>\n
Harleman mentioned CWSA has been notified that North Whitehall Township received a qualified response to its request for quote regarding the sale of the sanitary sewer system.<\/p>\n
Finally, Harleman said he was just provided with an LCA 2027-31 capital plan, and they are asking for public comment. The plan is 91 pages that he offered to share with board members.<\/p>\n
Chairman James Hahn brought up a number of correspondence items. Board members received a Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System 2025 schedule of changes in fiduciary net position, and there\u2019s a PA1 call rate change effective July 1.<\/p>\n
The group received a Pennsylvania Municipal Health Insurance Cooperative letter dated July 10, regarding a 50% surplus distribution check and a Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association letter dated July 22, with articles of association vote at the 2026 annual Erie conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published August 26. 2026 10:22AM During the Aug. 20 Coplay Whitehall Sewer Authority meeting, General Manager Matt Harleman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-272772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}