Officials OK Chartiers roadwork
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Chartiers Township residents soon will start to see work being done on streets throughout the township.
The board of supervisors voted Tuesday to award a contract for paving work to Victor Paving and Construction of Monongahela. The base contract of $80,364 calls for work to be done on Indiana, Leonard and Irwin avenues, and Riggle and Sugar Maples streets. The board also approved alternate bids on Shady Avenue for $15,595 and another for Roth Street at $16,541.
The bids were opened May 3.
The township is seeking statements of qualifications from full-service engineering firms for the design of improvements to Allison Hollow Road. Also included is the preparation of bid specifications.
Allison Hollow is described by township officials as a historically rural and narrow road that has fallen into disrepair. The work would include widening and straightening the road in some places and removal of trees, as well as paving.
“We’d like to take care of the entire road from Pike Street to Hickory Ridge Road,” said Jodi Noble, township manager. “We will do as much as when can do, depending on the design and cost.
“Traffic has increased on that road considerably,” she added. “It has become a collector road with traffic from other areas funneling onto it. It is a major corridor, and we’d like to make it safer.”
The work also will be tied in to a new access road to Piatt Estates, a residential community on a 106.9-acre plot with access to Allison Hollow and Arthur Road.
Proposals from engineering firms are due by 4 p.m. May 24.
The board also learned how much the rough winter cost the township. Ed Jeffries, township roadmaster, told the board the cost of snow removal for the 2012-13 winter was $154,430.84. The cost includes labor and material but not repairs to equipment.
“Last winter, we were out with a lot of nuisance snows,” Jeffries said. “When you figure in cost of repairs, we probably spent close to $200,000.”
Bids for the Midland sewer project will be opened Friday, said Dan Slagle, township engineer.