Panel continues with plans for plant, lines
WEST BROWNSVILLE – The Center West Joint Sewer Authority is continuing preliminary plans to build a new plant and sewage lines. Last week, the West Brownsville Borough Council met with engineer Bruce Chambers in a special work session to review his preliminary plans.
“That meeting was just to let the council review his plans for sewage lines throughout the first and second precinct of West Brownsville,” said Dan Kendall, chairman of the sewer authority. “There will be a public meeting when everything becomes more concrete.”
Kendall added that some changes could be made to the plans because of storm drains and state rights of way, but the plans are about 85 percent complete.
At the sewer authority’s meeting Thursday, engineer Bob Bible told the board members they are getting closer to negotiating a price for plant property.
“We are still getting the first cut of plant profiles done,” said Bible. “We are dealing with environmental assessment right now. When we are finished with environmental assessment issues, we can begin negotiating to buy the property.”
The board wants to build the plant near the East End Road intersection with Low Hill Road on the west side of the railroad tracks. That will be the plant site pending an agreement with property owner Joseph Ricco Jr.
Kendall said that the pump station for the sewage system will be located near the fire hall, underneath the high-level bridge. The rest of the system will operate on gravity flow.