Ortitay to host town hall meeting on McDonald flooding

State Rep. Jason Ortitay will host a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday to address flooding last weekend in an area of McDonald and Cecil Township near the Southern Beltway construction project. A preliminary report from the state Department of Environmental Protection found that there were problems with erosion and sedimentation control measures at the construction site. The area has seen repeated flooding during heavy rains.
The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at the McDonald Borough Building, 151 School St. “I hope to have representatives from the DEP and Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission attend the meeting so they can hear residents’ complaints firsthand and solutions can be detailed,” he said.