New addresses not yet sent out for most of Bradford County

BY JAMES LOEWENSTEIN (STAFF WRITER)
Published: July 16, 2010

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TOWANDA - The county's 911 re-addressing project, which eliminates rural route addresses, has been completed in less than half of Bradford County.

However, the chairman of the Bradford County commissioners said he hopes the project will be completed by the end of this year.

The limited number of staff at the U.S. Postal Service's Harrisburg office, which has to approve the new addresses for ongoing 911 re-addressing projects around the state, has slowed down the pace of the project in the area, Bradford County officials said.

"We are dependent on the post office's approval (of the new addresses)," Mark Smith, chairman of the Bradford County commissioners, said at the commissioners' meeting on Thursday. "So that's really the only thing that has held us back. We're pretty well set with the contractor (MSAG Data Consultants) to move ahead as soon as the post office gives us the go-ahead on each region's addresses."

The post office has to approve all new addresses before they can be sent out to Bradford County residents, Smith said.

"We're pushing things along as fast as we can," Smith continued. "(However), the staffing down there (at the U.S. Postal Service in Harrisburg) is a challenge for them."

Bradford County has been divided into nine regions for the re-addressing project, and to date the new addresses have been sent out in regions 1, 2, and 3, which are in the southern portion of the county, Bradford County 911 Coordinator Robert Repasky said. In addition, new addresses have been sent out in Ridgebury, South Creek and Athens townships, he said.

Repasky said that new addresses have been sent out in roughly 35 percent of the county.

"We hope to have the whole county finished by the end of this year," Smith said.

Smith made his comments at the meeting after Phil Cusano, the head of the county's drug and alcohol program, asked when the re-addressing project would come to Warren Center.

The re-addressing project gives residences with rural route addresses a city-style address, such as 123 Main St. In addition, some of the homes that had always had a city-style address are receiving a new address.

James Loewenstein can be reached at (570) 265-1633; or e-mail: jloewenstein@thedailyreview.com.

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