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Authority meets deadline to extend sewer lines
niedbala@observer-reporter.com
Greensboro-Monongahela Township Sewer Authority closed Thursday on a $5.6 million funding package it will use to extend sewer lines to the Mapletown and Cabbage Flats area of Monongahela Township.
The authority had been under a tight schedule to complete work necessary for the closing in order to qualify for federal stimulus money.
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Grant and loan money for the project, distributed through the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority, had been awarded to the authority in late April.
The funding package included a loan of $1,350,261 and a grant of $4,255,922. The money was provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The authority had to pull the project together in two months to meet the closing date.
"Everybody stepped forward," Hook said, thanking the residents of Cabbage Flats and Mapletown, as well as township, county and state officials. "It took a joint effort by everyone to get this done."
One of the requirements the authority had to meet was to obtain about 200 rights of way and easements from property owners in the construction area.
The authority was able to obtain all but 26 rights of way before the deadline, and for those it had to begin eminent domain proceedings.
Hook said several of the property owners included among the 26 have already contacted the authority to work out an agreement.
The authority would normally have had more time to work with property owners on rights-of-way acquisition, Hook said. However, that couldn't be done because of deadlines imposed by the funding source.
The project will provide service to about 200 new customers. It is expected to address the 56 percent malfunctioning rate of the Cabbage Flats area's current on-lot sewage systems and eliminate sewage flow into Whiteley Creek.
The project will include construction of 31,700 feet of gravity sewers, three pump stations and 11,140 feet of force main. Sewage will be conveyed to the authority's existing plant, expanding its treatment rate to 165,000 gallons per day.
