WEST
HANOVER TOWNSHIP WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY
7901 JONESTOWN ROAD, HARRISBURG,
PA 17112
TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 2001, 7 P.M.
REGULAR MEETING
Chairman
Henry Young called the regular meeting of June 19, 2001 to order at 7:01 p.m.,
followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.
Henry H. Young,
Chairman
David W.
Wingeard, Vice Chairman
Kenneth W.
Deaven, Secretary
Gloria J.
Zimmerman, Treasurer
Stephen L.
Millard
Ruth
Shields, 875 Pheasant Road. Mrs.
Shields asked for clarification regarding an issue that Mr. Jones continued to
raise at the Board of Supervisors’ meetings regarding the Authority paying for
a pension contribution. Mr. Young said
that the matter should not be addressed, as there were facets of the matter pending.
May 22, 2001. Mrs. Zimmerman moved, seconded by Mr.
Millard to approve the Minutes of the May 22, 2001 meeting. The motion was approved 4-0, with Mr.
Wingeard abstaining as he was not present at the meeting.
Operating
Expenses. Mr. Young said the
operating expenses for June totaled $73,094.96. Mr. Wingeard asked about the bills from Dauphin Electric and
Kappe Associates for UV lights. Mr.
Salisbury explained that the UV lights were ordered from Dauphin Electric, but
did not arrive in a timely fashion and some of the lights went out causing a
violation in the coliform count for the plant.
He said he then called Kappe Associates, they had the lights in stock,
and he ordered them even though the bulbs were each $9 higher than Dauphin
Electric.
Mr. Wingeard moved, seconded by Mrs.
Zimmerman, to pay the operating expenses in the amount of $73,094.96. The motion was unanimously approved.
No old business
was brought before the Authority.
Fox Mill
Road. Mr. Millard asked for a
status report on the Fox Mill Road project.
Mr. Young said there was not much to report except that the
Authority was working on the project to determine what was available in the
most cost-effective way. He said the
Authority had investigated several avenues regarding financing, including the
possibility of obtaining a grant, but that none had panned out.
Mr. Millard
asked whether or not the engineering had begun. Mr. Young responded saying that the engineering had not been
started as the Authority had been attempting to get the financing in
place. Mrs. Zimmerman asked whether or
not Mr. Young had met with the three residents; Mr. Young said that he and Mr. Salisbury
had spent considerable time meeting with them.
Mr. Young said
he was waiting for a cost figure to bore under the road. A brief discussion followed regarding
excavation to cross Manada Creek. Mr.
Wingeard said that the Authority was working on obtaining figures to do a
directional bore across Manada Creek rather than do open excavation.
Mr. Millard
asked if the Authority would give the Board of Supervisors a weekly update on
the project. Mrs. Zimmerman said she
believed it would only be necessary to receive reports for the Board meetings,
which were the first and third Mondays of each month.
Mr. Young
reiterated that the Authority was very cost conscious about the project. He went on to say that during conversations
he and Mr. Salisbury had with the residents on Fox Mill Road, two of them are
not very happy about being forced to connect to the sewer when they have no
septic problems. He said they asked why
their area had not been included in the original sewer plan. He also said the word “sue” had been
mentioned several times.
Mr. Millard
asked if the Authority would consider using one grinder pump per household as
originally planned. Mr. Young said that
the Authority was hoping to receive the last set of figures during the week of
June 25, which would enable them to put the equation together. Mr. Wingeard pointed out that the
Authority’s engineer thought that it would be best to use one grinder pump and
have the Authority maintain it.
Mr. Wingeard moved, seconded by Mr.
Millard, to authorize the Authority Engineer to begin designs for the Fox Mill
Road project. The motion was
unanimously approved.
Lime Silo. Mr. Wingeard said he had talked with Dale
Shope, the former Chairman of the Authority, recently and asked him about the
prior Authority’s thoughts on construction of a lime silo. Mr. Wingeard said Mr. Shope told him that it
was the prior Authority’s vision to put a lime silo in when the sludge
processing reached a certain point. Mr.
Wingeard said that he believed that point had arrived.
Mr. Wingeard
said he would like to have the Authority’s engineer look into constructing a
lime silo. Mr. Deaven asked for an
approximate cost. Mr. Wingeard said
approximately $190,000. He also said
that that he wanted to be clear that the Fox Mill Road project was the top
priority and that the lime silo was second priority.
Mr. Millard
asked for an explanation as to how the lime silo would work. Mr. Salisbury explained the process to him.
Mr. Wingeard moved, seconded by Mrs.
Zimmerman, to have the Authority Engineer prepare a cost estimate and time
schedule for construction of a lime silo.
The motion was unanimously approved.
Screen
Chamber. Mr. Wingeard said he
believed it was important to have a screening chamber retrofitted at the
treatment plant. Mr. Wingeard said he
also discussed this item with Mr. Shope recently. He said that the screening chamber had been value engineered out
in 1994 due to the cost. He said the
Authority opted not to put it into the original contract. Mr. Wingeard said that currently Mr.
Salisbury had rigged up a screen just before the UV chamber to pick up any
non-biodegradable items that might be found in the sewer system. Mrs. Zimmerman asked Mr. Salisbury how
good his “rigging” was. Mr. Salisbury
responded saying that recently there had been some problems with the decanters
floating and that he believed that plastic was getting caught occasionally
because it was not being eliminated.
Mr. Wingeard
said that DEP was constantly coming up with new biosolids requirements and that
he believed it was time to start looking at retrofitting a screening chamber
device to eliminate the non-biodegradable items from the sludge. He said that the screening chamber would be
third on the priority list.
Mr. Wingeard
moved, seconded by Mr. Deaven, to authorize the Authority Engineer to give a
cost estimate for retrofitting a screening chamber to the treatment plant. The motion was unanimously approved.
Generators. Mrs. Zimmerman asked whether or not all of
the pump stations had back-up generators.
Mr. Salisbury said that there were five without back-up generators. Mr. Millard asked what happened if
electricity was lost. Mr. Salisbury
said that pumps had to be taken out to the pump stations and pump
manually. Mr. Young said that the
Authority was insisting that developers put back-up generators on pumping
stations that they had to build for their developments. He said that he also attempted to negotiate
with developers to put generators in existing pump stations when their sewage
would be increasing the flow.
Mr. Millard
asked for an explanation as to how the stations are pumped manually. Mr. Salisbury explained the process to
him. Mr. Wingeard said that one of the
benefits was that most of the pump stations that had no back-up generators
serviced areas where the residents were on wells and therefore would only be
able to flush one time before their water supply would stop. Mrs. Tupper said that was one of the main
reasons that back-up generators were not put in every pump station. However, it was pointed out that as the
public water service became available in more and more areas of the Township,
not having back-up generators would create additional problems.
No further
public comment was offered.
Mark
Salisbury, Wastewater Treatment Superintendent. Mr. Salisbury submitted a written report (a copy is attached to
the Minutes). Mr. Wingeard asked how
many EDUs were for individual hook-ups.
Mr. Salisbury estimated that approximately 900 EDUs were individual
hook-ups. Mr. Millard asked what the
average flow was annually. Mr.
Salisbury said that he did not have that information available but that he
would furnish it to Mr. Millard.
Karen Tupper, Engineer. Mrs. Tupper submitted a written report (a
copy is attached to the Minutes). Mr.
Millard asked about the status of the Chestnut Ridge project relative to
construction of the sewer lines. Mr.
Young said that he was waiting for a report from the developers regarding the
legal agreement they had entered into.
He said the developers were trying to get rights-of-way. Mrs. Zimmerman said that Mr. Yingst was
having a meeting at the Township Building on June 25. Mr. Wingeard asked how long it had been since the 537 Plan
Augmentation was submitted to DEP. Mrs.
Zimmerman said it had been several months.
Mrs. Tupper said that she had been checking on it weekly and was
told that it was being circulated through DEP for approval.
Robert Long,
Solicitor. Mr. Long had no report.
Mrs. Zimmerman moved, seconded by Mr.
Wingeard, to adjourn the meeting. The
meeting adjourned at 7:36 p.m.
Gail
A. Martin,
Recording
Secretary