Sanitary Authority Hires Consultant
By ANNE HOLLIDAY
WESB/WBRR News Director
The Bradford Sanitary Authority has decided to hire a consultant to help their engineers get through the upgrade to the sewage treatment plant.
Authority member Lee Ann Doynow updated Bradford City Council during its regular meeting Tuesday night. She said the board looked at several consultants after council expressed concerns about the project. They decided to go with Tighe & Bond of Massachusetts because, Doynow said, they have the most experience with the broadest base.
According to the company’s website, Tighe & Bond “has a long history of designing efficient, cost-effective wastewater collection and treatment systems to achieve compliance with federal, state and local regulations.
Projects range from small industrial pretreatment systems to large regional treatment facilities. Designs may include features to conserve and/or reuse water, facilitate advanced nutrient removal or incorporate innovative residuals management processes where appropriate.”
Doynow also addressed the nearly $19 million PENNVEST loan and grant package the authority received two weeks ago. She said the authority will be acting on that during its meeting next Tuesday.
She also addressed concerns council had with the authority’s engineer working with the state Department of Environment Protection and other agencies.
“We do not have concerns about Pennsylvania regulatory agencies because they have had a good working relationship with Gannett Fleming, and they have been as cooperative they could be with us with our process,” she said.
“We really have full confidence in Gannett Fleming,” she added.
In other matters, council authorized a $53,000 Economic Development Loan to Protocol 80 – Jeremy Callinan, Josh Curcio and Don Kemick – to buy and renovate property on North Kendall Avenue.
Kemick explained that the men have been running their web marketing and development company out of home offices, for the most part, since 2002 and now they are ready to have their own building.
He said the property at 9-11 and 15 North Kendall is structurally sound but needs to be improved aesthetically, and that’s what they will be doing with the money.
The term of the loan is not to exceed 10 years and has an interest rate of 4 percent.
Council also approved a payment of $3,462 to Chase Card Services for a new directional sign for the Elm Street exit of the city’s Downtown Bradford Gateway Improvement project. They also approved a payment of $5,700 to Runyan Masonry to reconstruct a garage wall adjacent to the planned construction of a new parking lot facility on Pine Street.
Also Tuesday, Mayor Tom Riel read a thank-you note from Pitt-Bradford student Liz Tillman whose internship included learning more about city and state government.
Riel opened the meeting by asking for a moment of silence to honor Lewis Run Borough Council President Frank Langianese who passed away last week. Langianese had served on council for 56 years.
“It’s going to be a hard set of shoes to replace,” Riel said.
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since 1947
WESB/WBRR News Director
The Bradford Sanitary Authority has decided to hire a consultant to help their engineers get through the upgrade to the sewage treatment plant.
Authority member Lee Ann Doynow updated Bradford City Council during its regular meeting Tuesday night. She said the board looked at several consultants after council expressed concerns about the project. They decided to go with Tighe & Bond of Massachusetts because, Doynow said, they have the most experience with the broadest base.
According to the company’s website, Tighe & Bond “has a long history of designing efficient, cost-effective wastewater collection and treatment systems to achieve compliance with federal, state and local regulations.
Projects range from small industrial pretreatment systems to large regional treatment facilities. Designs may include features to conserve and/or reuse water, facilitate advanced nutrient removal or incorporate innovative residuals management processes where appropriate.”
Doynow also addressed the nearly $19 million PENNVEST loan and grant package the authority received two weeks ago. She said the authority will be acting on that during its meeting next Tuesday.
She also addressed concerns council had with the authority’s engineer working with the state Department of Environment Protection and other agencies.
“We do not have concerns about Pennsylvania regulatory agencies because they have had a good working relationship with Gannett Fleming, and they have been as cooperative they could be with us with our process,” she said.
“We really have full confidence in Gannett Fleming,” she added.
In other matters, council authorized a $53,000 Economic Development Loan to Protocol 80 – Jeremy Callinan, Josh Curcio and Don Kemick – to buy and renovate property on North Kendall Avenue.
Kemick explained that the men have been running their web marketing and development company out of home offices, for the most part, since 2002 and now they are ready to have their own building.
He said the property at 9-11 and 15 North Kendall is structurally sound but needs to be improved aesthetically, and that’s what they will be doing with the money.
The term of the loan is not to exceed 10 years and has an interest rate of 4 percent.
Council also approved a payment of $3,462 to Chase Card Services for a new directional sign for the Elm Street exit of the city’s Downtown Bradford Gateway Improvement project. They also approved a payment of $5,700 to Runyan Masonry to reconstruct a garage wall adjacent to the planned construction of a new parking lot facility on Pine Street.
Also Tuesday, Mayor Tom Riel read a thank-you note from Pitt-Bradford student Liz Tillman whose internship included learning more about city and state government.
Riel opened the meeting by asking for a moment of silence to honor Lewis Run Borough Council President Frank Langianese who passed away last week. Langianese had served on council for 56 years.
“It’s going to be a hard set of shoes to replace,” Riel said.
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