CONNOQUENESSING TWP — Many township residents directly affected by plans for a $22.5 million wastewater treatment plant and accompanying sewer voiced their concerns Wednesday during a board of supervisors meeting.

The state Department of Environmental Protection informed the board that the township either needs to put in a public sewage system, or the DEP would.

Facing this ultimatum, the township put together a plan to create and connect East Connoquenessing and West Connoquenessing sewage systems over five years.

Resident Bill Long said he is against the plan in its current form, and added that he believed the sewage project would “make Connoquenessing less rural ... lead to higher taxes and destroy the roads with the massive growth.”

Read more in Thursday's Butler Eagle.