The Radnor Township Environmental Advisory Council (EAC) met on Wednesday, December 17, 2025, at 6:00 PM in the Radnorshire Room. The meeting covered a range of environmental topics including road salt contamination, gas leaf blower bans, community education, and native plant initiatives. Members approved the previous meeting's minutes, welcomed new members, and discussed ongoing projects and upcoming events.
18th Radner Township Environmental Advisory Council. And we first of order business is for the members attending to approve or comment on the minutes from November 19th. No comments. All those in favor raise their hands. Okay. Good. And I had an okay. And public comment now, Diana, you just sat down. I know you can get up again. I I'd like you to speak to this, please. Okay. You're the most familiar with it because I'm not Diana Pope and Windomir Avenue. So we got a notice, I think, through the League of Women Voters. Is your mic on? EPA. I wouldn't know how to turn it. Okay. Okay. That's all right. Go ahead. And it it just relates to some grants that came from the EPA, so they are funding quite a few states with very specific projects. But the reason I'm talking about is because Delaware County is one of the places that received funding. So the County of Delaware PA was selected to receive $4,998,000 and $70 for their transfer stations reimagined, composting and expanded recycling services project, which aims to build accessible recycling capacity, reduce pollution, increasing diversion, and improve localized air quality throughout the county's communities. So beyond that, I don't have any details, but it's something we can be following for sure. And whether we have any input, I don't know. The way grants usually work is you've already determined what it is you plan to do, but perhaps we can be partners in one way or another as a township in uh supporting the county and its efforts. Yes, uh I think we we need to understand what the recycling process is down at that transfer station in terms of uh segregation of different types of recyclables and what is disposed of and uh then as best they can tell us where do each of these recyclables go and what is their fate and how this can be improved using the grant. I think so. Because someone wrote the grant, it's probably the Office of Sustainability or whether it's an office or not, I'm not sure, and we could just ask them because I'm sure there's specifics in that related to the grant. I'll I'll contact uh Delco Office of Sustainability. Thank you. So there's one other thing while I'm up here. It's something I've raised in the past, and you did follow up with the township uh who felt that we did things just fine in preparation for disaster. There was an interesting piece in the New York Times in November after they suffered a devastating uh hurricane. And it it says after Jamaica's disastrous storm, solar power is a bright spot. So it turns out those people that had solar panels on their houses, some people actually even removed them during the storm and replaced them. They became wonderful immediate sources of power for all the people around them. That was vital. So um these were private homes. Private homes. And in what town again? This is in Jamaica. Jamaica. The country. And and so I'm just saying it again to reiterate the point that the way things stand in our community and most of the country. If you have solar panels, you feed your power directly into your local power company. You don't necessarily have access to that power yourself. And that if it were engineered in a way that you could, even though we don't imagine disasters. In fact, it's a great way to provide more security in neighborhoods. How many people can get to the municipal center if there really is dramatic flooding or who knows what?