Pennsylvania Among Top States in 2014 Digital States Survey

Harrisburg – Pennsylvania is a leading state in the use of technology to better serve citizens, save money and achieve policy goals, according to the Center for Digital Government’s 2014 Digital States Survey.

Pennsylvania is among five states that earned a grade of A-. Pennsylvania also was recognized for outstanding performance in the health and human services (4th place) and finance, administration, procurement and human resource management (5th place) portions of the survey.

“As one of the top technology states in the nation, Pennsylvania is setting the standard for serving citizens and improving government operations,” said Governor Corbett. “This recognition further solidifies Pennsylvania’s place as a technology leader and innovator among states.”

Christiana back to square one on sewer processing

Christiana has been hoping to get rid of the lime in its sewer processing, but that is not proving to be easy.

During the Christiana Borough Council meeting Tuesday, Sept. 2, Borough Manager Carol Pringle explained that a cost test for a lime-free option failed before it could get started.

Currently, sludge from the treatment plant is treated with lime to stabilize it before being hauled out for land application.

But using lime is a dusty and messy step that workers would like to skip so a test had been proposed to do the processing without the lime and find out how much it would cost to have the sludge hauled away.

Pringle explained that, before the borough could start the test, the hauler the borough uses asked how the sludge was being stabilized.