Township Manager: Adopt-A-Road Program 'Highly Successful'

After just two years, Lower Saucon Township's Adopt-A-Road program is "highly successful," Township Manager Jack Cahalan told council Dec. 7.

The program encourages local families, businesses and organizations to .

Each adopted road is marked by a blue-and-white sign that features the name of the group that has adopted it and the phrase "Keep Lower Saucon Township Clean & Beautiful."

The township supplies all volunteers with safety equipment and trash bags to aid in the clean-ups.

"We have 21 organizations or family groups who have adopted roads in the township...and they go back twice a year and remove debris from these roads," Cahalan said.

In 2011, the groups collected 150 bags of trash from along township thoroughfares. They also removed 50 tires, a lawnmower, a car door, two fenders, and various other large items that were illegally dumped.

In total, 131 people participated in the program, collectively volunteering about 72 hours of their time, Cahalan said.

"It's really been a terrific effort by everybody and it's keeping the roads looking beautiful," he noted.

More information about the township's Adopt-A-Road program--including a list of the seven roads still available for adoption--is available on the Lower Saucon Township website.

The following groups are current program participants, according to the website:

• Saucon Valley Youth Sports Football/Cheerleading
• Matt Macsek Lawn Care
• Pagoda Family
• Petak Family
• Zimpfer Family
• Lower Saucon Township Environmental Advisory Council (EAC)
• Riegel Family
• McCormick Family
• Muschlitz Family
• Saucon Valley Wrestling
• Hellertown Lower Saucon Little League
• Lower Saucon Sportsmen Association
• Saucon Creek Watershed Association
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• Repash Family
• Birkel & Palik Families
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