The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has unveiled an online plan for an arch culvert preservation project over a tributary to Swatara Creek along State Route 72.

The project is being eyed for section 067 of the roadway, known locally as Ebenezer Road in Union Township, about 0.6 miles south of West Jonestown and 0.6 miles north of Bunker Hill, according to a PennDOT release.

The purpose of this project is to rehabilitate the existing arch culvert carrying an unnamed tributary to Swatara Creek under Route 72 and provide scour protection, the release explains. PennDOT estimates the cost of the project to be $175,000.

The project includes removing material within the culvert barrel as well as in front of the wing walls, the release says. Scour protection will be placed to protect

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