The Environmental Advisory Council (EAC) convened on September 16, 2026, at 6:00 PM in the Radnorshire Room. The meeting covered a wide range of environmental topics, including West Nile virus updates, upcoming conservation events, road salt contamination monitoring, a proposed energy benchmarking ordinance, native plant programs, air quality monitoring, and budget allocations. A public hearing on building energy benchmarking was scheduled to follow the EAC meeting at 7:00 PM.
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Meeting of our EAC during a very busy time. I thank you for all making the time to come out here. We do have a full agenda as usual, but we have to confine it to one hour because we have a public meeting with building owners to discuss building energy benchmarking. So I'm going to start right off and ask for an approval or not of the minutes from the August 19th meeting. Okay. Raise your hands if you approve. All right, thank you. We do have a quorum as well. Public comment. The mic is open. Okay, no public comment. Announcements. The announcements are given in detail in the agenda, so I will not belabor them. I will point out some important information. Mosquitoes have been tested positive locally for West Nile virus in our area. In fact, in July, some mosquitoes tested positive right next to us in N Cave Park here, right next to the township building. There have also been mosquitoes testing positive in Tradifarin right, in fact, uh on Upper Gulf Road in Wayne at the Stratford Park in Malvern, Cedar Hollow Park, and Chesterbrook Wilson Wilson Farm Parks. So the posting that I put out in the agenda gives common sense uh steps for people to protect themselves from getting infected. Radner Conservancy is having its annual fall tree Octoberfest, October 25th, 1 to 4 p.m. That's a Sunday at the Willows Mansion. And the registering for getting a free tree is not yet live, but uh keep uh looking at the Radner Conservancy website uh for that registration uh link. Beach leaf disease. This is uh a growing problem in our area. Uh many of you may well notice this happening with your own trees or locally. Uh and uh Steve Schreiner from Shriner Tree Care is going to be presenting on Saturday September 26th between 10 and 1130 a.m. Uh a discussion of beech leaf disease. This is at the Kreutzberg Center, the main line school night, uh Kreutzberg Center on 260 Gulf Creek Road in Radner. Uh if some of you recall, uh Steve gave this presentation uh last uh when was it? Carol was that at the beginning was at the beginning. I believe it was at the beginning of the year. Yeah, the beginning of the year. So uh the more people aware of this and ways to identify it, uh the better. If we can confine its occurrence. And notable amongst that is the SALT Connect Delco, which is basically a participation of Delaware County as a whole with Stroud Water Research's sample program of area streams to measure conductivity and chloride and get an idea of road salt contamination. So I'll be talking about this program a little later in the meeting. So Dan, I don't know if this is the right time to bring it up, but my daughter lives in Haverton, and they have just instituted curbside composting. Oh, you were talking about sustainability projects, I thought. I'm sorry, I was talking about salt water salt monitoring. Sorry about that. Salt sustainability, yeah. I'm starting to hear the same thing myself. Um another thing is quite interesting, is a tree canopy interactive tool. Again, this is in the agenda. You can get more information through the links there. Using LIDAR data. Now I know this data is uh this uh research has been done uh I think 10 years ago. Uh but it's always important to uh get an update on this. Uh so the launch of this uh mapping uh interactive tool uh which will show a map of our county uh will be coming out this fall. Okay. Um I think lastly is Delaware County residents are have a chance to vote on a line of credit for land conservation.