Centre County Refuse and Recycling Authority – Bulk Items
Did you know you can take items to the Centre County Refuse and Recycling Authority free of charge and not have to call for bulk collection. Below is a list of items the Authority will accept free of charge or for a minimum fee.
Scrap Metal & Appliances
Appliances, or white goods, are accepted for recycling at the Transfer Station from any Centre County resident for no charge.
They will accept the following items:
– Air conditioners and dehumidifiers
– Clothes washing and drying machines
– Dish washers
– Metal pots and pans
– Furnaces and electrical heaters
– Water heaters
– Refrigerators and freezers
– Stoves, ovens, microwaves
– Helium tanks
They will NOT accept the following items:
– Sealed units (propane bottles)
– Medical lab & hospital scrap machinery
– Gasoline & fuel tanks
– Drums, barrels, paint cans and tar buckets
– Pipe or boilers wrapped in insulation
– Lighting fixtures
– Any scrap material containing hazardous waste material
Tires
The Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority accepts tires for recycling.
Residents delivering personal automotive and small truck tires from their vehicles will be accepted at the following rates: $84.00 per ton/$25.00 minimum.
Throughout 2024, Harris Township staff worked with Shentel Communications LLC to design a project that would allow the company to install cable utility infrastructure throughout the Township. Where overhead lines exist, Shentel is utilizing existing poles to run their lines; where no overhead lines exist, Shentel must excavate within the street rights-of-way or within other existing easements to install their cables underground along with small above ground accessory structures.
Harris Township started issuing permits to Shentel in November 2024 for the areas that require groundwork. Shentel has been doing that work for about four months. As part of the permitting process, Shentel must permanently restore the areas within Township street rights-of-way that they in any way disturb and they must warrant such work for two years following Township inspection and approval of the restoration. Permanent restoration cannot take place until after winter when grass can grow. Township staff will walk each disturbed area with Shentel representatives when work in those areas is complete and restoration appears to be compliant with Township standards. Staff will also periodically check those areas for the following two years in case any warranty work is required.
If residents should have any questions about the project, they can contact the Township Office by calling 814-466-6228 or they can email at zoning@harristownship.org.
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The Township has received numerous reports of individuals operating ATVs (side-by-sides, four wheelers, unregistered dirt bikes, etc.) on Township roadways. As a reminder, the use of ATVs is prohibited on all Township roadways.
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The Harris Township Board of Supervisors met with the Potter Township Board of Supervisors on October 4, 2022 to hear the concerns of our residents related to the State College Area Connector Project. The Harris Township Board of Supervisors offer the following comments on the PEL study and the proposed alignments that are moving forward for further environmental review.
Roadway Design
As it stands now, there are no winners with the three alignments that are moving forward. Residents will lose their homes and their livelihoods. Farms will be lost. The unique rural character of our area will be forever altered.
While we acknowledge the safety issues that exist along the Route 322 corridor, we are opposed to using a limited access super highway to address these concerns. We fail to see how the proposed super highway will accomplish any of the stated safety goals for this project – lower speeds and safer highway design.
We urge PennDOT to reconsider the design of this roadway. Instead of a limited access super highway, we urge you to design a context sensitive roadway. To us, that means a four-lane divided highway with minimal medians, roundabouts or other left hand turn alternatives and, most importantly, a reduced speed limit through the corridor.
We point to the Route 41 project in Chester County. Route 41 is a 22-mile-long highway in southeastern Pennsylvania that connects Lancaster to Wilmington, Delaware. Route 41 runs along a two-lane undivided road called Gap Newport Pike, passing through mostly rural areas of Chester and Lancaster Counties. The roadway and the area have many similarities to the Route 322 corridor.
In the Route 41 project, PennDOT backed off of earlier plans to install a limited access super highway and instead is moving forward with a context sensitive design that incorporates roundabouts and other safety features.
If roundabouts and context sensitive design can be used in other parts of Pennsylvania, why is it not being considered here?
Methodology
We continue to question the methodology that is being used in this project. We’ve repeatedly asked that the Centre Region’s Climate Action Goals and the state’s Climate Action Plan be considered as part of the process. We’ve been told that these items will be considered during the environmental review. It is flawed and contrary to good planning to not consider these impacts now.
Similarly, we continue to question why this project is being planned in a vacuum. The US 15 bypass project and other projects in the state will affect truck traffic traveling through our area. Why are these projects not being considered as part of the planning process?
We also question the weight that will be assigned to the impacts noted in the PEL study. How will impacts to residents, businesses and agricultural land be weighted?
If PennDOT is so confident in the results of the PEL, why won’t you show your work? Greater transparency is needed to improve the public’s confidence in the state’s ability to plan and build the appropriate roadway for our area.
Timeline
We urge PennDOT to consider the residents, businesses and farmers along this corridor who now must live in limbo while the project proceeds to environmental review. These residents are unable to make decisions about their homes, businesses and farms until PennDOT makes a decision on the roadway alignment. Property values are being impacted while PennDOT makes everyone play a waiting game. For the good of our community, we urge you to be transparent, to communicate with impacted residents and to move forward in a timely fashion. F
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Residents are reminded that dogs must kept on leash at all times, including when you are visiting one of the Township’s parks. We’ve had reports of dogs being left off leash in both Blue Spring and Kaywood Parks. The Township will follow up with the State College Dog Officer to ensure our regulations are being followed.
If you see a dog off leash, feel free to contact State College Borough directly at 814-234-7191 during regular business hours. After hours, please contact State College Police at 814-234-7150.
Harris Township’s MS4 (Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System) permit PAI34801 was renewed by PADEP with revisions effective July 1, 2020. Through the five-year permit cycle, Harris Township aims to reduce the sediments and nutrient discharges to local waterways from the census-defined urbanized area by 10 percent.
Harris Township and PADEP aim to accomplish this goal through a series of projects and educational opportunities. If you know of a target audience who would benefit from participating in a stormwater informational session, please contact the Township’s MS4 coordinator, Jere Northridge, and provide the contact information for your group. Past presentations have been made to SCASD students, public works employees, first responders, the construction industry, scouts, realtor groups, and Leadership Centre County. Future presentations will occur over the five year permit period. Presentations may require an alternate format relative to gathering guidelines in place at the time of the presentation.
For more information or to inquire about a presentation, please contact the Harris & College Township MS4 Coordinator Jere Northridge at (814) 231-3024 or jnorthridge@collegetownship.org.
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Centre County Refuse and Recycling Authority – Bulk Items
/in Headlines, NotificationsCentre County Refuse and Recycling Authority – Bulk Items
Did you know you can take items to the Centre County Refuse and Recycling Authority free of charge and not have to call for bulk collection. Below is a list of items the Authority will accept free of charge or for a minimum fee.
Scrap Metal & Appliances
Appliances, or white goods, are accepted for recycling at the Transfer Station from any Centre County resident for no charge.
They will accept the following items:
– Air conditioners and dehumidifiers
– Clothes washing and drying machines
– Dish washers
– Metal pots and pans
– Furnaces and electrical heaters
– Water heaters
– Refrigerators and freezers
– Stoves, ovens, microwaves
– Helium tanks
They will NOT accept the following items:
– Sealed units (propane bottles)
– Medical lab & hospital scrap machinery
– Gasoline & fuel tanks
– Drums, barrels, paint cans and tar buckets
– Pipe or boilers wrapped in insulation
– Lighting fixtures
– Any scrap material containing hazardous waste material
Tires
The Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority accepts tires for recycling.
Residents delivering personal automotive and small truck tires from their vehicles will be accepted at the following rates: $84.00 per ton/$25.00 minimum.
Please call their office at 814-238-7005 with questions. For a complete list of items that can be recycled, please click here: https://www.centrecountyrecycles.org/recycling
Shentel GLO Fiber Construction Update
/in Headlines, NotificationsThroughout 2024, Harris Township staff worked with Shentel Communications LLC to design a project that would allow the company to install cable utility infrastructure throughout the Township. Where overhead lines exist, Shentel is utilizing existing poles to run their lines; where no overhead lines exist, Shentel must excavate within the street rights-of-way or within other existing easements to install their cables underground along with small above ground accessory structures.
Harris Township started issuing permits to Shentel in November 2024 for the areas that require groundwork. Shentel has been doing that work for about four months. As part of the permitting process, Shentel must permanently restore the areas within Township street rights-of-way that they in any way disturb and they must warrant such work for two years following Township inspection and approval of the restoration. Permanent restoration cannot take place until after winter when grass can grow. Township staff will walk each disturbed area with Shentel representatives when work in those areas is complete and restoration appears to be compliant with Township standards. Staff will also periodically check those areas for the following two years in case any warranty work is required.
If residents should have any questions about the project, they can contact the Township Office by calling 814-466-6228 or they can email at zoning@harristownship.org.
Reminder: ATVs Prohibited on Township Streets
/in Headlines, NotificationsThe Township has received numerous reports of individuals operating ATVs (side-by-sides, four wheelers, unregistered dirt bikes, etc.) on Township roadways. As a reminder, the use of ATVs is prohibited on all Township roadways.
Board of Supervisors Statement on the State College Area Connector Project
/in Headlines, NotificationsThe Harris Township Board of Supervisors met with the Potter Township Board of Supervisors on October 4, 2022 to hear the concerns of our residents related to the State College Area Connector Project. The Harris Township Board of Supervisors offer the following comments on the PEL study and the proposed alignments that are moving forward for further environmental review.
Roadway Design
As it stands now, there are no winners with the three alignments that are moving forward. Residents will lose their homes and their livelihoods. Farms will be lost. The unique rural character of our area will be forever altered.
While we acknowledge the safety issues that exist along the Route 322 corridor, we are opposed to using a limited access super highway to address these concerns. We fail to see how the proposed super highway will accomplish any of the stated safety goals for this project – lower speeds and safer highway design.
We urge PennDOT to reconsider the design of this roadway. Instead of a limited access super highway, we urge you to design a context sensitive roadway. To us, that means a four-lane divided highway with minimal medians, roundabouts or other left hand turn alternatives and, most importantly, a reduced speed limit through the corridor.
We point to the Route 41 project in Chester County. Route 41 is a 22-mile-long highway in southeastern Pennsylvania that connects Lancaster to Wilmington, Delaware. Route 41 runs along a two-lane undivided road called Gap Newport Pike, passing through mostly rural areas of Chester and Lancaster Counties. The roadway and the area have many similarities to the Route 322 corridor.
In the Route 41 project, PennDOT backed off of earlier plans to install a limited access super highway and instead is moving forward with a context sensitive design that incorporates roundabouts and other safety features.
If roundabouts and context sensitive design can be used in other parts of Pennsylvania, why is it not being considered here?
Methodology
We continue to question the methodology that is being used in this project. We’ve repeatedly asked that the Centre Region’s Climate Action Goals and the state’s Climate Action Plan be considered as part of the process. We’ve been told that these items will be considered during the environmental review. It is flawed and contrary to good planning to not consider these impacts now.
Similarly, we continue to question why this project is being planned in a vacuum. The US 15 bypass project and other projects in the state will affect truck traffic traveling through our area. Why are these projects not being considered as part of the planning process?
We also question the weight that will be assigned to the impacts noted in the PEL study. How will impacts to residents, businesses and agricultural land be weighted?
If PennDOT is so confident in the results of the PEL, why won’t you show your work? Greater transparency is needed to improve the public’s confidence in the state’s ability to plan and build the appropriate roadway for our area.
Timeline
We urge PennDOT to consider the residents, businesses and farmers along this corridor who now must live in limbo while the project proceeds to environmental review. These residents are unable to make decisions about their homes, businesses and farms until PennDOT makes a decision on the roadway alignment. Property values are being impacted while PennDOT makes everyone play a waiting game. For the good of our community, we urge you to be transparent, to communicate with impacted residents and to move forward in a timely fashion. F
Dog Reminders
/in Headlines, NotificationsResidents are reminded that dogs must kept on leash at all times, including when you are visiting one of the Township’s parks. We’ve had reports of dogs being left off leash in both Blue Spring and Kaywood Parks. The Township will follow up with the State College Dog Officer to ensure our regulations are being followed.
If you see a dog off leash, feel free to contact State College Borough directly at 814-234-7191 during regular business hours. After hours, please contact State College Police at 814-234-7150.
You can find our dog regulations here: https://ecode360.com/30337221
Stormwater Program Update
/in Headlines, NotificationsHarris Township’s MS4 (Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System) permit PAI34801 was renewed by PADEP with revisions effective July 1, 2020. Through the five-year permit cycle, Harris Township aims to reduce the sediments and nutrient discharges to local waterways from the census-defined urbanized area by 10 percent.
Harris Township and PADEP aim to accomplish this goal through a series of projects and educational opportunities. If you know of a target audience who would benefit from participating in a stormwater informational session, please contact the Township’s MS4 coordinator, Jere Northridge, and provide the contact information for your group. Past presentations have been made to SCASD students, public works employees, first responders, the construction industry, scouts, realtor groups, and Leadership Centre County. Future presentations will occur over the five year permit period. Presentations may require an alternate format relative to gathering guidelines in place at the time of the presentation.
Educational materials are also available through the Harris Township website (https://harristownship.org/resident-info/stormwater-information/) and the MS4 Partners website (ms4partners.org).
For more information or to inquire about a presentation, please contact the Harris & College Township MS4 Coordinator Jere Northridge at (814) 231-3024 or jnorthridge@collegetownship.org.