Peters Township Council authorized the spending of $60,000 to hire a consulting firm to help determine the best design to improve a spillway and dam on Peters Lake Park. In 2012 the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued a letter to the township alerting them that the current spillway does not meet current catastrophic flood standards and must be improved. Those standards are 22 inches of rain in a 24 hour period. According to Township Manager Paul Lauer, the largest rainfall in his history in the township came during Hurricane Ivan in 2004. According to Lauer the spillway still had plenty of capacity to contain flooding, but the spillway does not meet DEP standards. The township will work with Rizzo International Inc. to develop a design concept to present to the DEP for their approval. Lauer estimates that the earliest any construction could begin would be late 2022 or early 2023.