Chevrolet Sonic pulled from lagoon at Cascade Tissue Group
Jun. 4—RANSOM TWP. — State police are investigating after emergency crews pulled a vehicle out of a wastewater treatment lagoon Friday at Cascade Tissue Group's facility.
Not long after 11 a.m., state troopers, divers from Germania Hose Company and emergency responders from around the area descended on the facility to pull the vehicle, a burnt orange Chevrolet Sonic, from the water. It did not appear that anything was inside.
Workers dredging the lagoon Friday found the vehicle and called police, according to Newton-Ransom Volunteer Fire Company Assistant Chief John Stemphoski
How it got there and to whom it belonged is under investigation by the state police. A message left for a state police spokesman was not returned.
On the scene, Stemphoski said it may be connected to a reported crash Dec. 2, in which a man was found disoriented in the area, but his vehicle was not.
As a rainstorm rolled in, divers waded into chest-high water and attached a cable to the vehicle. A crane hoisted it out of the water and crews slowly set it down on a flat-bed truck.
A site supervisor at the facility referred inquires to Cascade's spokesman Hugo D'Amours. He declined to comment because it is an active investigation. The lagoon was used to treat wastewater, he said.
The facility itself is being decommissioned. The Canada-based company announced in October it was closing its Ransom Twp. and Pittston Twp. plants this year, citing aging equipment, low profitability and high logistic costs.
Contact the writer: jkohut@timesshamrock.com, 570-348-9100, x5187; @jkohutTT on Twitter.
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