Contractors for the Fox Metro Water Reclamation District are grinding and patching rough spots on roads in Oswego's Cedar Glen and Windcrest subdivisions this week.

Beginning next week, contractors will install an asphalt overlay on the streets in the two subdivisions if weather conditions permit, Jeff Humm, engineering supervisor for the agency, said Monday.

Over the past year the two subdivisions located east of Ill. Route 25 and north of Waubonsie Creek, have been a construction zone as contractors have installed sanitary sewer lines in the right-of-way adjoining the streets.

Fox Metro hired Len Cox & Sons of Crest Hill last year to complete the project at a total cost of $1,892,867.

The agency is financing the project through a low interest loan obtained from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

The agency undertook the project to make sanitary sewer service available to approximately 190 homes in the two subdivisions that have been served by private septic systems since the 1960s.

If their septic systems are functioning properly, Humm said homeowners are not required to hook up to the new sanitary sewer lines.

However, Humm said, homeowners will be required to connect to the new sewer lines in the future when their septic systems require repair or replacement. The Kendall County Health Department, he said, does not issue permits for repair work or replacement of septic systems if a public sanitary sewer system is available.

Many Cedar Glen and Windcrest homeowners have already decided to disconnect their septic systems and connect to the new sanitary sewer lines.

As of last Sept. 28, 50 homeowners had connected to the new sanitary sewer lines and six more connections are pending, Humm said.

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By JOLENE CLEAVER Dispatch Staff Writer Twitter: @DispatchCleaver

DURHAMVILLE Some Durhamville homeowners will vote Tuesday whether they want to borrow money to build a $4 million system to pipe their sewage to Oneida.

If passed, the proposition would provide for the establishment of the Durhamville Sewer District in the hamlet.

The resolution provides for the construction of a sanitary sewer collection system at a maximum estimated cost of up to $4.1 million.

This will be financed through a hardship loan from the state through the Environmental Facilities Corporation. The terms of the loan include no-interest financing, payable over the next 30 years, and could save the town nearly $1 million in interest payments.

Town officials say there have been issues with septic systems in the area for years.

Durhamville, bisected by Oneida Creek, is typically wet, and Town Supervisor Owen Waller has noted in the past that septic systems fail frequently, causing raw sewage to go into open ditches and other water sources. This causes health issues.

In addition, many properties in the hamlet do not have room to install a proper leach field for septic tanks.

If the project is adopted, each homeowners in the district will pay $471 per year, whether or not they choose to hook into the system. If they do hook up, they will pay about $300 per year in fees related to pumping their sewage to Oneida for treatment, said Waller.

There will also be a one-time connection fee and a DEC-regulated septic tank disconnection fee for those who choose to hook into the system.

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The village of Angel Fire has paid a local couple $88,000 to drop a lawsuit filed against the municipality for allegedly requiring them to connect their Angel Fire property to an inoperable sewer system.

Rush Family Limited Partnership No. 2 filed the lawsuit in the Eighth Judicial District Court in Raton May 22 and dismissed its complaint Aug. 30. The village paid the plaintiffs, Avery and Dana Rush, from the New Mexico Self Insurers Fund, an insurance account administered by the New Mexico Municipal League.

Claimants understand and agree that they are releasing all known or unknown, present or future claims against the village of Angel Fire, its elected officials, employees, agents and insurers arising from or in any way related to the claims asserted in the lawsuit or any claims which could have been asserted, an undated, hand-written settlement agreement states.

The Rush familys complaint alleges that on Aug. 21, 2009, the village issued a statement indicating that sewer service was available at the familys residential lot at 44 Beaver Loop in the Valley of the Utes subdivision. From September 2009 to June 2011, it states, the village billed the family for sewer availability.

Plaintiff justifiably relied on Defendants series of negligent misrepresentations and proceeded to design and placed the house on the lot without consideration of locating a gravity septic system, the complaint states. Instead Plaintiff installed the specific sewage treatment system that would connect to the Defendants municipal sewage utility and thereafter completed landscaping on the surface of the lot.

But after the home was built, the complaint states, the village issued a letter in spring 2011 stating the house could not be connected to the municipal sewage system. The family was then forced to remove landscaping, install a pump-operated septic system uphill from the house, and re-landscape the scarring left by the installation process, it states.

Plaintiff unnecessarily spent time and money installing a sewage system and line to connect to the nonexistent sewer line of the village, the complaint states.

The complaint states that the Rush family was seeking monetary damages to be determined at trial, including compensatory and consequential damages, statutory damages, and such other relief deemed proper by the court.

The village settled a separate lawsuit with its Linda Apodaca, its former finance director in May.

Through the earlier settlement, the village paid Apodaca $200,000 to drop a lawsuit she filed against the municipality after she was fired from the position last year. She filed the lawsuit against the village, its Clerk Terry Cordova and then Mayor Stuart Hamilton for allegedly violating the New Mexico Whistleblower Protection Act with the termination of her employment and the Inspection of Public Records Act during her subsequent attempts to review village records.

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A family that owns property in Angel Fire has dropped a lawsuit it filed against the village of Angel Fire earlier this year for allegedly requiring the family to spend money to connect to an inoperable sewer system.

Rush Family Limited Partnership No. 2 filed the lawsuit in the Eighth Judicial District Court in Raton May 22 and dismissed the complaint Aug. 30.

Plaintiff no longer wishes to pursue this matter against defendant and gives notice of its voluntary dismissal with prejudice, the notice of dismissal states.

Angel Fire Mayor Barbara Cottam would not say whether the village planned to settle the lawsuit out of court. She directed questions about the lawsuit to the villages attorney Joseph F. Canepa of Canepa and Vidal, PA in Santa Fe, who did not immediately respond to a telephone message from the Sangre de Cristo Chronicle Tuesday (Sept. 11).

The Rush familys complaint alleges that on Aug. 21, 2009, the village issued a statement indicating that sewer service was available at the familys residential lot at 44 Beaver Loop in the Valley of the Utes subdivision. From September 2009 to June 2011, it states, the village billed the family for sewer availability.

On Jan. 27, 2010, the complaint states, the village issued a memorandum stating that the family would be required to install a grinder pump and other equipment to accommodate the municipal sewer utility. The memorandum stated that the family must use the municipal sewer system to manage liquid waste from the Beaver Loop home.

Plaintiff justifiably relied on Defendants series of negligent misrepresentations and proceeded to design and placed the house on the lot without consideration of locating a gravity septic system, the complaint states. Instead Plaintiff installed the specific sewage treatment system that would connect to the Defendants municipal sewage utility and thereafter completed landscaping on the surface of the lot.

But after the home was built, the complaint states, the village issued a letter in the spring of 2011 stating that the house could not be connected to the municipal sewage system. The family was then forced to remove landscaping, install a pump-operated septic system uphill from the house, and re-landscape the scarring left by the installation process, it states.

Plaintiff unnecessarily spent time and money installing a sewage system and line to connect to the nonexistent sewer line of the village, the complaint states.

The complaint states that the Rush family was seeking monetary damages to be determined at trial, including compensatory and consequential damages, statutory damages, and such other relief deemed proper by the court.

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Visiting Loganville officials got an earful from the Walton County Board of Education at the Tuesday worksession as the two sides continue to try to negotiate sewer for the planned replacement campus for Loganville Middle School.

After talks seemingly stalled last month when Loganville officials seemed to ask the board to pay to install the gray water line to the campus, Superintendent Gary Hobbs said such a result was unacceptable.

Right now they want us to pay for the project, turn it over to them and then pay them a monthly fee for sewer, Hobbs said. I dont think we should have to pay to run the gray water line out and then pay for the gray water as well.

Complaining of long, fruitless negotiations with the city, Hobbs said the system could move back to a plan for septic on site without unduly pushing back the completion date of the project, but hoped to reach an accord with the city yet.

City manager Bill Jones visited the worksession to weigh in on the matter and said they were still willing to work with the system.

Well pay for the pipe, Jones said. Were willing to do the work, we just want to have someone from the school system overseeing it on your end.

Hobbs said any such person would most likely be a hired contractor, as no one in the system has experience with sewer.

Were not in the sewer business, Hobbs said. Thats not what we need to do.

But both felt an agreement could still be reached in the coming weeks, though Hobbs told the board no action would be taken yet.

I wont come to you and ask you to consider it without good figures, Hobbs said.

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Published: Friday, October 5, 2012 at 7:02 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 5, 2012 at 7:03 p.m.

Portions of Cherokee County near Weiss Lake northeast of Leesburg should have improved sewer service because of a $125,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission.

The grant will assist the Cherokee County Water and Sewer Authority in providing sewer services along sections of county roads 146, 355 and 405. Soil and topography prevent private septic systems from working effectively in this area, according to local officials.

The availability of sewer services is expected to make the location more inviting for housing and business development, as well as to improve living conditions for people already residing in the area.

The authority will install 14,000 feet of sewer line along the three roads.

Gov. Robert Bentley notified Y.V. Vaughn Ledbetter, authority chairman, that the grant had been approved.

The ARC program is administered by the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs.

ARC was established by Congress in 1965 as a supplemental grant program to raise the standard of living, improve the quality of life and promote economic development in portions of the 13 Appalachian mountain states. Thirty-seven Alabama counties, including Cherokee, are part of the ARC area.

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The Doylestown Township public water and sewer advisory committee has recommended that the township install a public sewer system to serve the 250 homes in the Pebble Ridge neighborhood. So have staff from the Bucks County Health Department.

Doylestown Township staff the township manager, assistant manager and director of operations added their names to the list of people recommending sewers on Wednesday.

And to many residents who attended a special township meeting on Wednesday, it sounded like the supervisors plan to follow those recommendations.

The supervisors did not vote on the issue Tuesday; they dont expect to vote on it for several months.

But Supervisor Chairwoman Barbara Lyons told one resident, You should plan on sewers.

Assistant Township Manager Sandra Zadell said studies have shown high levels of human fecal bacteria in the stormwater basins and creeks in the Pebble Ridge community several times over the past 14 years. She said that can come from only one place failing septic systems.

Engineers determined through visual surveys in 2008 that 15 septic systems were malfunctioning and 35 others could be malfunctioning.

We have to put our big girl pants on and do whats best for the community because thats our job, Lyons told a resident who questioned her.

Supervisor Ryan Manion said the state Department of Environmental Protection could intervene and force the township to install sewers if it doesnt take action.

Our hands are a little bit tied, Manion said.

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Unpermitted sewer lines that discharge untreated sewage, known as wildcat sewers, threaten to further delay the already nearly decade-long Act 537 project for West Penn Township and Walker Township.

Sewage Enforcement Officer Scott C. Bieber of Lehigh Soils and Wetlands, the sub consultant hired to redo an outdated needs assessment survey, revisited 230 of 231 homes that were suspected to have septic issues.

On Sept. 25, the sewer committee met with the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) where Bieber presented a draft of the needs assessment survey. At the West Penn supervisors' meeting last evening, township engineer Ronald B. Madison, PE said the good news is that the sewer needs of the study areas are not as widespread as the original survey done by Ludgate Engineering showed them to be, which means that a costly public sewer system is unlikely necessary. (The one done by Ludgate previously estimated the project to cost $11.5 million, and it would have left the homeowners who were involved in this option with $104-a-month sewer bill until the debt of the project was fully paid.)

As this new survey was finished, however, the issue of the wildcat sewers followed. Further investigation has to be done, which could delay the completion of the full Act 537 plan update, the deadline for which is Dec. 31. Madison said South Tamaqua has some homes that were built using these wildcat sewer lines, and there might be one in Clamtown and Andreas.

"There may be a lot (of homes connected into wildcat sewers)," sewer committee member Ted Bogosh said, "but until there's further investigation, we don't know."

Photos from the survey show discharge of these wildcat systems clear evidence that the unpermitted wildcats exist but the real problem is identifying exactly which homes are tied into them. Some of the wildcat sewer pipelines, according to Bogosh, are nearly 100 meters long, and some pipelines are short. The main concern of DEP is how many homes are on these systems and how far the pipes run.

Although an investigation is unavoidable, both solicitor Gretchen Sterns and Madison agree that it would be a mistake to do it during the planning stage.

"The need to investigate the wildcat sewers won't go away," Madison said. "It's just whether or not you're doing it now as part of the planning process or later as part of the implementation process."

A major drawback of investigating now, Sterns said, is that the townships will be stuck paying for the planning part of the project, for they are responsible by law for all planning costs. The estimated cost for West Penn and Walker townships since the planning phase of Act 537 began in 2003, up to March of this year, has been $276,907. In addition to that is the $79,200 to have Bieber redo the survey.

To prevent any further unnecessary spending, West Penn supervisors said they would rather let homeowners sort out their sewer issues at their own costs by either having them install on-lot sewer options or having several houses share a system.

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Construction crews will close a section of South Lieser Road in Vancouver on Tuesday, according to the citys public works department. The closure will allow workers to install new public sewer lines.

The work will close Lieser between St. Helens Avenue and Southeast Middle Way, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, according to the city. Detour signs will help direct traffic around the closure.

The installation is part of a Linwood Heights project through Vancouvers Sewer Connection Incentive Program, which aims to make public sewers available to residents now connected to private septic systems. The city hired contractor RC Northwest Inc. of Brush Prairie for the job.

Commuters are encouraged to avoid the area if possible on Tuesday, as delays are possible. Drivers who pass through nearby neighborhood streets should use caution, according to the city.

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A family that owns property in Angel Fire has dropped a lawsuit it filed against the village of Angel Fire earlier this year for allegedly requiring the family to spend money to connect to an inoperable sewer system.

Rush Family Limited Partnership No. 2 filed the lawsuit in the Eighth Judicial District Court in Raton May 22 and dismissed the complaint Aug. 30.

Plaintiff no longer wishes to pursue this matter against defendant and gives notice of its voluntary dismissal with prejudice, the notice of dismissal states.

Angel Fire Mayor Barbara Cottam would not say whether the village planned to settle the lawsuit out of court. She directed questions about the lawsuit to the villages attorney Joseph F. Canepa of Canepa and Vidal, PA in Santa Fe, who did not immediately respond to a telephone message from the Sangre de Cristo Chronicle Tuesday (Sept. 11).

The Rush familys complaint alleges that on Aug. 21, 2009, the village issued a statement indicating that sewer service was available at the familys residential lot at 44 Beaver Loop in the Valley of the Utes subdivision. From September 2009 to June 2011, it states, the village billed the family for sewer availability.

On Jan. 27, 2010, the complaint states, the village issued a memorandum stating that the family would be required to install a grinder pump and other equipment to accommodate the municipal sewer utility. The memorandum stated that the family must use the municipal sewer system to manage liquid waste from the Beaver Loop home.

Plaintiff justifiably relied on Defendants series of negligent misrepresentations and proceeded to design and placed the house on the lot without consideration of locating a gravity septic system, the complaint states. Instead Plaintiff installed the specific sewage treatment system that would connect to the Defendants municipal sewage utility and thereafter completed landscaping on the surface of the lot.

But after the home was built, the complaint states, the village issued a letter in the spring of 2011 stating that the house could not be connected to the municipal sewage system. The family was then forced to remove landscaping, install a pump-operated septic system uphill from the house, and re-landscape the scarring left by the installation process, it states.

Plaintiff unnecessarily spent time and money installing a sewage system and line to connect to the nonexistent sewer line of the village, the complaint states.

The complaint states that the Rush family was seeking monetary damages to be determined at trial, including compensatory and consequential damages, statutory damages, and such other relief deemed proper by the court.

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