Nuangola council president refutes claim she’s received payment for damages

Oct. 04--Contrary to a claim made Wednesday at a special sewer authority meeting, Nuangola council president Regina Plodwick said she has not received payment for damage to her property.

"I want to see where I got the money," she said. "Fourteen months after the fact I still have damages."

Plodwick called the Times Leader Saturday to refute a comment made by borough resident John DiRico, who complained some residents -- including Plodwick -- had received compensation for damage allegedly caused by a July 2013 sewer construction project, while others still have not.

Crews corrected a damaged section of wall, she said, but her entire backyard remains "ripped up" from drilling and machinery, and her concrete driveway is still cracked and depressed from the heavy vehicles.

"I was against the sewer project to begin with," she said. "From day one, I was worried about this."

Plodwick said she's also installed an ultraviolent and sediment filter at her own cost -- and for which she was never compensated -- to correct for water contamination which appeared the night after bidirectional drilling began. The water was cloudy with black particles in it, and analysis of samples revealed it was unfit for consumption even if boiled, she said.

She said she wrote a letter on Sept. 28 to Wexcon Inc. and its insurance provider inquiring about compensation for the damages.

At the meeting, DiRico also said sewer authority treasurer Ted Vancosky has been compensated for damage to his property, but Plodwick said she she could not speak to those comments.

"Just show me the check. I want to see it," she said. "If someone else got it, if someone else cashed it, it certainly wasn't me."

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