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By ANNE HOLLIDAY WESB/WBRR News Director Foster Township supervisors on Monday decided to cut their losses and hire a new engineering firm to finish their Act 537 sewer plan. A mistake by their previous engineers cost them a PENNVEST loan and about $200,000. Supervisor Jim Connelly Jr. also detailed other instances where the company cost them about $44,000 worth of extra labor and materials. They hired Northwest Engineering to complete the sewer plan and act as the township's new engineering firm. Supervisor John Sullivan voted against hiring Northwest because, he said, he was not impressed with the company's presentation to them. Sullivan did say, however, that he is "thrilled" that they made a decision and can move forward with the sewer plan. Also Monday, Connelly said he spoke with PennDOT earlier in the day about the problems at the intersection of East Main Street and Derrick Road. He said the agency has spoken with Reid Petroleum (owner of Crosby’s) and they ar...

Anger and frustration freely flowed into and infiltrated last night’s Foster Township supervisors meeting, when the better part of two hours was taken up by a variety of sewer line-related issues. Even before supervisors introduced a motion to appoint a township engineer, residents – who packed the meeting room in the municipal building – brought up issues concerning hook-up fees to the new sewer line. But the discussion really heated up after supervisor chairman Jim Connelly Jr. made a motion to appoint The EADS Group as township engineer. He read quotes for the sewer line project from EADS ($684,000), Hill Engineering ($576,000) and E&M Engineers ($320,000). For months residents have been asking the supervisors to take action against E&M for a mistake that cost the township a PENNVEST loan for the project. But, last night, they were not happy about paying twice as much money to another engineering firm. Connelly said if E&M hadn’t made the mistake they wouldn’t even be ha...