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Canton OKs $300K in contracts for new sewer blowers

Posted 5/27/18

By ADAM ATKINSON CANTON — The village has approved bids for its $300,000 sewer blower project. Canton will contract with Continental Construction and Watson Electric for a total of $271,416 for the …

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Canton OKs $300K in contracts for new sewer blowers

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By ADAM ATKINSON

CANTON — The village has approved bids for its $300,000 sewer blower project.

Canton will contract with Continental Construction and Watson Electric for a total of $271,416 for the purchase of two new sewer blowers and installation, with Tisdell and Associates to provide engineering services for $11,900 and with National Grid for $15,000 for a new transformer to handle the new equipment.

At their Monday, May 12 meeting the board and village DPW supervisor Brien Hallahan discussed the need for the new equipment and some urgency was expressed prior to approving the bids.

“We have no choice but to do the project,” Hallahan said. “We will be in violation. We are spending thousands of dollars every year and we truly are on our last leg.”

The two existing blowers are worn out, and only one is currently operating.

“We don’t know if its going to last another year,” Hallahan said of the current blowers.

“Having been up there recently, one blower is in pieces on the ground, and the other leaks oil like I’ve never seen an engine leak oil,” said Canton Village Mayor Michael Dalton.

The 2018 budget has an appropriation of $125,000 to help cover the cost, $100,000 of which is from a grant. Municipal officials are exploring options to pay for the rest.

One idea afloat is to finance the project in some fashion. Another, and one board members felt might be unpopular, is to raise the sewer rates from around $7.50 per 1,000 gallons to around $8 per 1,000 gallons for two years.

The village processed about 185,000,000 billable gallons of residential sewage from about 1,500 customers in 2017, said Hallahan.

After approval of the bid, Dalton suggested the board work on making a recommendation on how to fund the project over the next two weeks.