Scottdale Council gets sewage plant work update

Tom Seaman, a Scottdale Borough representative to the Westmoreland Fayette Municipal Sewage Authority, attended this month's council meeting to give an update on the construction of a new sewage treatment plant.

In a quick year in review, Seaman told council that in January of 2014 the Glenn Schwartz property was acquired for the plant and in March the balance of the right of ways needed to install the interceptor lines was acquired.

He added in May an interim construction financing was established to borrow about $15.5 million from First National Bank at an interest rate of .01067 to buy all the equipment needed to build the plant.

Once the plant is built, the municipal authority will go with a regular bond issue for 40 years.

In June, the authority accepted new board member Diane Figg, who represents East Huntingdon.

Seaman said in August an agreement was made to charge a 5 percent collection service fee, which equals a total of about $5,000, against the $12 collected for Scottdale Borough that covers their storm water/sewage separation project loan.

He added if the borough were to collect the fee itself, it could cost the borough about $10,000.

In September, the authority advertised the project for bids and in October those bids were accepted. Port Vue Plumbing won the main contractor contract at $12,346,000, A-1 Electric won the electrical contract with a bid of $1,080,000 and Ligonier Construction was awarded the contract of $1,411,470.84 to run the new interceptor lines from Swedetown down to the plant.

Earlier this month, the authority finalized all of the contracts and sent them back to the vendors.

They should be ready to start sticking a shovel to the ground in February I would think, Seaman said.

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Scottdale Council gets sewage plant work update