HARRISVILLE — The borough up north is not immune to this season's wettest issue, stormwater drainage.

Three residents brought a concern with drainage in the areas of McCummins Lane, North Main Street and Kern Lane to borough council's attention Monday night.

Don Long said the water is especially a problem near his driveway, where water has to reach too high of a level before it begins flowing into the drain.

“The water would have to be knee deep to get into that storm drain,” Long said. “That's much too high. There's no issues there yet. I'm just concerned about what happens long term.”

Long said he also was concerned the excess water could erode other stormwater measures, compounding the problem.

“I think the only way to fix that right now is to curb it,” Long said.

Responding to Long and his neighbor's public comment, April Anschutz, borough council president, said the borough would look into the issue through its engineer.

Anschutz said the borough is aware of existing and new stormwater issues, and the borough's maintenance employees were further trained and certified to work in tight quarters about two months ago, so the borough can rely more on its own staff.

Charles Cline, a council member, said the excess rain has been a factor in highlighting new problems.

“It's just an overabundance,” he said.

Bobbie Jo Combs, a council member, said she sympathizes with the residents who spoke at the meeting because they are her neighbors, and she has experienced the same problems.

Combs said she believes the problem could stem from a drain that was covered during maintenance on Route 8 by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

“It's going to start eating away at that road and make it a much bigger issue,” she said.

While not stormwater-related, council also discussed the amendment to its water rate ordinance that would set rates for businesses that installed meters to record water usage rather than relying on the approximations set by the borough's engineer.

Businesses without meters are billed an amount that coincides with a unit of measurement called an Equivalent Dwelling Unit, or EDU.

Council discussed adding or rewording some elements of the amendment at the suggestion of Solicitor Joe Nash.

One addition to the amendment would give legal precedent for borough employees to access the meter at least once each month to conduct the reading.

Anschutz said they will move forward to pass the amendment.

“We have to go through the process of putting it through the newspaper and all of that,” Anschutz said.

Anschutz said they will move forward with the amendment after seeing Nash's revisions at the next meeting.