Bradford Sanitary Authority has received a request for two sewer hookups for the planned Area Transportation Authority facility to be built on East Corydon Street.
At Tuesday’s meeting, authority members heard that several condemned buildings on the property have been or will be demolished to make way for the multimodal terminal facility. Those properties had a greater combined number of hookups than the two that are being requested.
Authority engineers Gannett Fleming have reviewed the submitted plans and calculations, and the authority has both the treatment and conveyance capacity to supply the requested hookups. The request was approved.
Executive Director Steve Disney updated the members on the ongoing issues with local pollutant limits. He said the Environmental Protection Agency will advertise its intention to approve substantial modifications to the authority’s pretreatment program, including its local limits accepted April 2. After a 30-day comment period, the EPA will notify the authority of its decision.
The logging operation for a timber sale on authority property is approximately 85% complete, with a crew from Klondike Timber on site harvesting 165,000 board feet.
Verizon engineers have moved a proposed location for a cellular communications tower to the south side of authority land and are continuing to evaluate that location, Disney said.
In his monthly report, Disney explained an informational training session and luncheon has been scheduled for all industrial pretreatment dischargers into the wastewater treatment plant. “The agenda includes site visits Tuesday, Oct. 31, and Wednesday, Nov. 1, with the luncheon to follow beginning at 11:30 a.m.,” Disney said. The luncheon will be held at the authority’s treatment plant training room on Seaward Avenue.
Updating treatment plant operations, Disney said that CWM Environmental out of Kittanning took over third-party lab duties, and the changeover from PACE Labs went well.
The operators and crew performed a full-scale preventive maintenance week recently on all major plant components, he said.
“Microtech is back into compliance with their zinc levels,” Disney said, “they have successfully completed three consecutive sampling events with results below the parameters.”
He added that the old brick auger building at the north end of the reed beds is being demolished. It was out of service for years.
Regarding the Phase 2 project, Disney said the holdback remains with PENNVEST. The areas of roof identified as having issues were replaced, and were covered under warranty. Regarding the transformer, Disney said Bronder didn’t pay the first invoice, so a second was sent with a 15% penalty added for a new total of $4,111.88.
For the Phase 3 project for the digester roof, Advanced Technology has received the required materials and plans to schedule and complete the project as soon as possible.
Regarding field operations, year to date in the sanitary sewer system, a total of 24,127 lineal feet have been inspected and cleaned, including 87 manholes. Since the last meeting, 5,287 feet and 23 manholes were completed. Disney said an overall total of 85,772 lineal feet have been completed, representing 36% of the system.
In the stormwater system, 38% has been inspected and cleaned. Year to date, a total of 29,734 lineal feet have been completed including 303 catch basins and 84 manholes. Since the last meeting, an additional 5,917 feet, 64 catch basins and 10 manholes were inspected and cleaned.
