Tuesday, March 27, 2001
The state will pick up the bulk of the cost and a private foundation will cover the rest.
By HAROLD GWIN
VINDICATOR SHARON BUREAU
FARRELL, Pa. -- City council is looking for engineers interested in doing a feasibility study looking at the consolidation of sanitary sewer facilities in the Shenango Valley.
The Intergovernmental Study Committee looking at the possibility of consolidating five municipalities -- Farrell, Sharon, Hermitage, Wheatland and Sharpsville -- wants to include a look at consolidating the sanitary sewer facilities run by those communities.
It's an expensive proposition.
Potential cost: The overall study was to be financed with a $50,000 state grant but the sewer study alone could cost as much as $100,000.
Because of that expense, the state wants the study committee to put the job out for requests for proposals rather than just select an engineering firm.
Farrell, as the lead community and grant recipient in the consolidation study, has to handle the engineering proposals.
The city won't have to pick up the tab for the work, however.
The committee hopes to get 80 percent to 90 percent of the expense from the state and has already secured a $10,000 pledge from the Strimbu Memorial Foundation to cover the local matching fund share, said Mayor William Morocco.
Council voted Monday to put out the request for proposals.
Also on agenda: In other matters, Morocco said the city is looking for citizen suggestions for areas of town that need to be physically cleaned up in conjunction with Farrell's centennial celebration this summer.
Farrell's annual spring cleanup is scheduled for April 23-26 and Waste Management, the city's garbage contractor, will have extra trucks in the city that week, he said.
That's a good time to target areas for cleanup, Morocco said, suggesting the city might enlist the help of some high school students for the project.