The Herald, Sharon, Pa.

Local News

April 10, 2008

Daniel Drive sewer project to start soon

By Joe Pinchot

HERMITAGE — Construction should begin in about two weeks for the Daniel Drive sanitary sewer line expansion in Hermitage.

Bids were opened in December, but the awarding of contracts had been held up while the state Department of Environmental Protection reviewed them on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which is providing a $300,000 grant.

Joseph P. Pacchioni, consulting engineer for Hermitage Municipal Authority, told authority members Wednesday he learned a day earlier that DEP had approved the bids.

These contracts have been awarded:

• Fleming-Walker Inc., Gibsonia, on a $337,773 bid to install a sewer past 17 homes on Daniel Drive and Lamor Road. Ten other bids ranged from $338,554 to $664,448.

• Kirila Contractors Inc., Brookfield, $124,000, to build a pump station on the northwest corner of former Coulter farm property, on the south side of Lamor. Seven other bids ranged from $138,243 to $184,642.

• McCurley Electric Inc., Bessemer, Pa., $49,050, to install the pump station’s electrical equipment and connections. Four other bids ranged from $58,000 to $75,900.

Residents will pay for a portion of the project through a frontage assessment, although officials have not set the amount. Part of the EPA grant went to extend a line and build a pump station serving residents of Miller and South Darby roads, and property owners for that project were assessed $27 a foot.

The project will allow malfunctioning septic systems to be retired.

Pacchioni said the project should take about six months to complete.

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