UPDATE 7/12 (WENY) -- The court date that was initially scheduled for Tuesday has been moved to July 26 at 9:30 a.m. Borough residents had initially planned to pack the courthouse today on the right side of the courtroom to support Pennsylvania's actions against Lawrenceville.

The hearing is still scheduled to be held at the Tioga County Courthouse in Wellsboro. 

Lawrenceville residents continue their calls for the current Borough Council President, Gordy Chilson, to resign. 

Lawrenceville Borough served by Pennsylvania D.E.P.

LAWRENCEVILLE, PA. (WENY) -- The Borough of Lawrenceville will be at Tioga County, Pennsylvania, court July 12 over a "Petition to Enforce Order" that was issued to the borough on June 6.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection accuses Lawrenceville Borough of violating the Pennsylvania Safe Drinking Water Act.

The 24-page document outlines what Pennsylvania calls Lawrenceville's sewage treatment plant's numerous violations. The state's grievances with the borough stretch back to 2019.

The order outlines seven violations that the D.E.P. found in Lawrenceville's public water system. The first violation; "failing to provide and effectively operate and maintain public water system facilities." The borough also failed "to take whatever investigative or corrective action is necessary to assure that safe and potable water is continuously supplied to the users." Lawrenceville failed to "provide 1-hour notification to the Department regarding the August 30, 2021 loss of positive pressure." The borough does not have a corrective action schedule, an operations and maintenance plan or an emergency response plan. The D.E.P. also contends that the borough has consistently failed to "correct significant deficiencies." 

WENY News spoke with the current Lawrenceville Borough Council President, Gordy Chilson, via phone Thursday. Chilson says that he is aware of the order, and sent it over to the borough's lawyer to handle. Gordy Chilson has been the Borough Council President for five months.

The order includes a checklist of five things that the borough must do with completion dates. The furthest date out is 60 days within the issue date of the order. Within five days of reception, the borough was supposed to issue a "Tier 2 Public Notification" this is an alert to the 600 people that use Lawrenceville's water system that their water could be compromising their health. One council-member told WENY News that an alert was not issued. According to timing on the petition, consumers should have been notified by June 11.

That council-member also told WENY that they and another member have been calling D.E.P. and any other organization they can think of to try and fix this. At every turn, they have been told it is too late.