CRANBERRY TWP — Township officials are seeking solutions to water line breaks that happened because of water usage at the fire department’s training facility.

During a meeting on Thursday, Oct. 2, supervisors approved a $22,000 design contract with HATCH for an isolation water tank that will separate the training hydrant from the main water system and ideally stop future breaks.

“If you turn the valve and turn the water off, which is directly connected to the system, it can potentially and has actually created water breaks in our system — our main lines — that we then have to go and repair,” township manager Dan Santoro explained. “So this is to eliminate that problem.”

According to a township justification memo on the project, HATCH, which manages the township’s water model, conducted

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