DID YOU KNOW...
Bob Regola claims he has a "career in civil engineering" but he is NOT an engineer??FACT:
The Pennsylvania Department of State online License Verification database shows ROBERT THOMAS REGOLA III is a licensed Professional Land Surveyor ONLY. According to information published by the PA Department of State, a Land Surveyor in our state may legally only do "engineering surveys".Bob Regola does NOT hold a license as a Professional Engineer, or dual licenses as a Land Surveyor/Professional Engineer for doing engineering surveys, despite the fact that the Pennsylvania Society of Land Surveyors Manual of Practice states in regards to Engineering Surveys that: "Land Surveyors shall engage in these practices only to the extent of their competence" and that "Dual registration is prima facie evidence of such competence."
Bob Regola's biography claims he "completed the rigorous 5 year engineering program at Penn State in just 4 years", after which he came home "to join the small family engineering business".
OH REALLY, BOB?
Maybe you should have taken just a little longer and become an actual engineer.
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Bob Regola's "small family engineering business", which he prides himself on joining after his graduation from Penn State, designed a stormwater management system in Penn Township that flooded homes and streets and cost the Penn Township taxpayers 1.3 million dollars to fix??FACT:
Robert T. Regola and Associates designed Cortina Marie Estates (the "Villa Plan") for Ralph and Maria Rizzi during the late 1980's and early 1990's. As designed by Regola, Stormwater Retention Pond #1 was so inadequate that Cortina Marie homeowners had to sue to save their often-flooded homes from total ruin. Penn Township was forced to borrow $1,325,000 dollars from the state in a Pennvest Loan, to rebuild Retention Pond #1 and add 1400 feet of storm sewer lines in Cortina Marie. That's 1.3 million dollars that Penn Township taxpayers will someday have to pay back -- probably through higher taxes.
Bob says he will NEVER raise taxes and he will fight wasteful spending on things such as "parades, celebrations, and statues".
OH REALLY, BOB???
Maybe you think a better use for the taxpayers' hard-earned dollars is to spend them cleaning up after rich developers (and their so-called "engineers") who build inadequate public facilities?
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Water from another Regola-designed stormwater pond in the same development flooded the family farm belonging to a Penn Township widow, cut her property in half, and 31 cattle, a beautiful Palomino horse, and her autistic son's dalmatian dog died?? And after more than 11 years of legal wrangling in a lawsuit, the 86-year-old widow and her family are STILL fighting to get their property returned to usable condition??FACT:
Robert T. Regola and Associates also designed Retention Pond #2 in the Cortina Marie development. The pond never held back any real amount of stormwater. The roaring water coming out of Pond #2 damaged neighboring properties, eroded farmland, drowned animals in mud, and destroyed the Kuznik family's small cattle and hay farming business. Merle Smith Kuznik, an 86 year-old Penn Township widow, and her daughter Mary Beth filed suit against the developer in 1994. The Kuzniks asked for Pond #2 to be fixed so that it stops the torrents of water from destroying their pasture and their access road.After 11 years, and even after several "repairs" to Regola's original design, Pond #2 is STILL so bad that all its stormwater pretty much just flows in one end and out the other (even during the recent Hurricane Ivan!). The Kuznik family and their animals have endured untold suffering, and their property STILL can't be fully used as a farm or be sold due to its condition. The Kuzniks believe that the developer's insurance company is determined to pay as little as possible, get their own client "off the hook", and eventually dump THIS burden onto the Penn Township taxpayers, as was done with Pond #1. Read more about the Kuzniks' 11-year nightmare HERE.
Bob Regola's slick campaign flyers say that he wants to help "families and small businesses".
OH REALLY, BOB??
And what exactly did you do to HELP Mrs. Kuznik, her family, and her farm???
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Bob Regola's "small family engineering business" was replaced when these Penn Township stormwater problems began to surface??FACT:
Robert T. Regola and Associates was replaced as the "engineer" on the Cortina Marie plan when these lawsuits began to surface in the mid-1990's. The Regola firm was dropped even though Cortina Marie still contains a "Regola Drive" and a "Janette Circle" (named for Bob's wife??) The replacement engineering firm's Letter Report (dated 10/30/96 and signed by a licensed professional engineer) stated, "Retention Pond 2 was not detaining stormwater runoff inflows", and recommended rebuilding the pond.
Bob Regola's slick campaign flyers say he plans to "fix the roads".
OH REALLY, BOB?
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That Robert T. Regola and Associates, Bob Regola's "small family engineering business", is NOT incorporated in Pennsylvania, or even recorded as a fictitious name as required by Pennsylvania law??FACT:
As of October 24, 2004 Robert T. Regola and Associates is NOT listed in the Pennsylvania Department of State searchable database as a current or former corporation or business name. Check for yourself HERE.see also:
Business Names
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Bob Regola's slick campaign flyers say he wants to give tax incentives to small business and companies.
OH REALLY, BOB?
Shouldn't you get your own "small family business" records in order first??
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