O'Hara seeks state grant to fix crumbling stream bank in Community Park

O’Hara council is seeking a $200,000 state grant to repair a portion of the Squaw Run stream bank that collapsed nearly two years ago.

Township Engineer Chuck Steinert said money will be sought from the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

“There is approximately 60 feet of wall that was undermined during the last big storm in 2019,” Steinert said.

The current condition of the crumbled gabion wall doesn’t interfere with water flow, he said.

Grant money would allow the township to stabilize the wall and reconstruct the walking trail that continues at the top of the slight hill.

In other news:

• As a reminder for the upcoming May primary election, some of the township polling sites have changed.

Voters in Ward 1, District 1 will cast their ballot at the Fox Chapel Yacht Club, 1366 Old Freeport Road.

In Ward 2, Districts 1 and 2, and Ward 4, District 2, voters will go to the rear entrance of St. Joseph Church, 342 Dorseyville Road.

Voters were notified by mail from the Allegheny County Elections Department.

For more, visit alleghenycounty.us/elections/on-election-day.aspx.

• Residents who would like to apply for the township’s deer management program, conducted in conjunction with Whitetail Management Associates, will have their chance from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 2 at the North Side Sportsman’s Association in Warrendale.

Call 412-782-1403 for more information and mandatory program requirements.

• The township’s updated zoning ordinance allows for one recreational vehicle, no longer than 25 feet, to be parked in a driveway with a township-issued permit from the Sunday before Memorial Day to the Saturday after Labor Day.