Nuangola will pay for paving

NUANGOLA – Borough officials agreed Tuesday to pay the bulk of a paving contract for Willow Grove Street, even though work needs to be done to bring the street up to standard.

The paving work was carried out while snow was falling, and the contractor has agreed to redo the surface, in addition to repairing the bank along the road, council was told.

The borough will pay 90 per cent of the $99,565.50 owed for the project, which was mostly funded from community development grants, and will release the other 10 per cent when its engineer verifies a punch list of tasks related to the repairs.

The borough will end up paying $12,936 from Liquid Fuels revenue, council members noted.

In other business, council will look into a request from Lawrence Stets that it allow the development of a temporary holding tank sewer system for people who want to develop their properties beyond the capacity of their current on-lot septic systems.

Stets and other have claimed that the borough’s Department of Environmental Protection –approved sewer plan allows for the addition of such systems on a temporary, case-by-case approach, but council members want that and other issues clarified by DEP before they are willing to proceed with enacting an ordinance to change the sewer plan.

Stets said he had asked council for over a year to act on his request, and formally requested that if they were not willing to act they provide a written explanation as to the reasons why.

Council noted that the request had been forwarded to a council committee for watershed and environmental issues, but that committee’s representative was unable to attend the Tuesday meeting.

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