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A public outreach meeting is being arranged to provide residents impacted by the flooding of Grafius Run information about a survey to be distributed that will collect damage estimates to be given to state officials.
Chelsea Myers, city planning director, told City Council Thursday she is coordinating the meeting and will be providing the Sun-Gazette with a location, date and time in coming days.
"We'd like to have it next week or the following week," Myers told the Sun-Gazette Friday.
The survey asks residents to put down damage estimates caused by floods over the past 10 years, Myers said.
It is estimated 296 properties, mostly residential, are affected, she said. The survey, however, may discover additional properties the city was not aware were impacted, she said.
Two women living on Hawthorne Avenue have been surveyed and their information given to Penn Strategies, the city economic development consulting firm.
The survey distribution likely would take place between 5 and 7 p.m.
The results will be turned over to the state Department of Environmental Protection, Myers said.
The department may be able to assist on a mitigation project based on the tabulation and other factors, she said.
State Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Loyalsock Township, has been asked to put the project into a request in the 2019 capital budget.
"If we can get the project funding in the capital budget for 2019, that would be the goal," said Jason Fitzgerald, president of Penn Strategies. "If the funding is secured, the construction of projects done by the department might be able to take place in 2020-2021," he told council.