Posted on September 15, 2020
The Intergovernmental Stormwater Committee on Thursday awarded a $1.22 million contract for dredging of the pond at Lakemont Park to low bidder Glenn O. Hawbaker Inc. of State College.
The cost is about $500,000 less than a pre-bid estimate.
There were three other bids, spanning from
$1.24 million to $1.7 million, according to engineering consultant Vince Seyko of Morris Knowles & Associates of Delmont.
The deadline for completing the dredging project is May 31.
The 30,000 cubic yards of silt will be trucked to a location near Kerbaugh Road in Antis Township, where it will be spread eventually on the site of a waste-coal pile that will be removed to provide recreation space along a trail the township plans to build.
Before that arrangement was made, the silt was to be trucked to a site near Buckhorn, next to the Intermunicipal Relations Committee’s compost facility.
Sending the silt to the Antis location will save the township project the cost of procuring topsoil and it will be cheaper to transport the silt there.
The Lakemont dredging project is the centerpiece of the ISC’s plan for complying with state Department of Environmental Protection Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System — also called MS4 — requirement to reduce the amount of sediment entering area streams by 1.4 million pounds per year over five years.
The dredging of the pond alone will reduce the annual sediment load by 544,000 pounds.
On Thursday, the ISC also approved a $229,000 contract for low-bidder Gordon L. Delozier Inc. excavating to construct green infrastructure projects near Peoples Natural Gas Field — including infiltration areas in the main parking lot and repairs to an existing detention basin near the players’ parking lot, according to ISC coordinator Chelsey Ergler.
Money from a DEP Growing Greener grant and a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant will pay for the work.
The ISC also agreed Thursday to pay for construction of a proposed streambank stabilization project along an unnamed tributary of Spencer Run in Allegheny Township. The project is designed by Trout Unlimited.
The estimated cost of construction is about $5,000.
Mirror Staff Writer William Kibler is at 949-7038.
Source: altoonamirror
