Model Airplanes

On June 20th, more than 30 residents came out to Desert Hills Elementary to hear Las Cruces Utilities (LCU) present the Assessment of Corrective Measures Report (ACM) on what is known today as the “Old Foothills Landfill” (OFL) at 555 S. Sonoma Ranch Blvd. The OFL today is closed to landfilling trash, but was an active, unlined landfill for city trash from 1966 to 1996.

In the early 1990’s the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enacted new, more stringent regulations that required the nation’s landfills to be lined with multiple liners and with leachate collection systems installed. This was to protect adjacent property or groundwater from contaminants that could be carried by rain and stormwater passing through the waste zone.

Joshua Rosenblatt, LCU regulatory and environmental analyst, explained to attendees at the June meeting, “As part of the OFL closing, seven on-site groundwater monitoring wells and two off-site groundwater monitoring wells were installed, and the 30-year annual and currently semi-annual groundwater sampling program began.” Water testing detected small amounts of elevated concentrations of volatile organic compounds common in a variety of solvents that had reached groundwater below the site from years of rain and stormwater flow before the landfill was closed.” Extensive soil vapor analysis was also conducted in 2017-2018 to determine how much of these solvents remained

Article source: https://www.krwg.org/post/environmental-monitoring-continues-old-las-cruces-landfill

ELYSBURG — Dave Hughes’s passion for piloting radio-controlled model aircraft set in more than 40 years ago.

His fiancé, Diana Yarlet, essentially married into the hobby — and she did so Saturday.

Hughes and Yarlet wed on a grassy airstrip of Kaboodle Road in Rush Township, Northumberland County, where the Susquehanna Valley Modelers’ hosted a fly-in for model aircraft enthusiasts.

Hughes, of Milton, serves as president of the club while his bride is treasurer.

The late Mark Woodland had been one of Hughes’ teachers at Warrior Run High School. A U.S. Air Force veteran and member of a radio control club, Woodland introduced Hughes to the model aircraft in 1976. He’s held onto the hobby ever since.

“I’m intrigued by building, mechanics. Aviation, to me, has always sort of been a mystery. You could take an item that only weighs ounces and make it airborne,” Hughes said Saturday as about 20 pilots readied their model planes and helicopters for takeoff.

Hughes kept his aircraft in a trailer ahead of his wedding. Inside was a Piper Pawnee with a 10-foot wingspan and 11.5 horsepower twin-cylinder gasoline engine. Another was an Edge 540 powered with nitro gas.

It was Hughes who introduced Yarlet to model aircraft. She said she’s come to appreciate aircraft and the hobby itself.

“I didn’t know anything about it,” Yarlet said of “modeling” before sharing a few words about the unique wedding setting an hour before her nuptials. “I’m excited. I think it’s great.”

The Susquehanna Valley Modelers hosted the fly-in to allow its members a chance

Article source: https://www.dailyitem.com/news/local_news/modelers-take-to-clear-morning-skies-in-rush-township/article_a7a12c27-c024-5f91-a363-027550ad3bbb.html