Jul 30, 2015 2 min read

Cecil Township Municipal Authority is looking for an engineering firm to design and plan for sewer lines for approximately 350 households in Lawrence without access to a public sanitary sewer and to do similar work for a new water treatment plant, according to administrator Dennis Bell.

The Cecil authority was awarded $331,000 in local share funds from gambling revenues dispersed by the Washington County Redevelopment Authority for a to-be-determined plan to build new sewer infrastructure that could cost between $6 million and $7 million. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the two-pronged plan was approved in January.

“We need proposals right now. The engineering firm won’t necessarily do the work itself, but we need someone to come to us with a proposal to do all the design and planning at this stage,” Bell said, explaining the completion of the project is three to four years away. Bell said homes on School, First, Second, Third, Federal, Church, Binotto and Simpson Streets, as well as Georgetown Road, would be affected.

“All the homes surrounding the village are sewered. It’s just this pocket of homes on those streets that need the update,” Bell said.

The authority previously had considered piping sewage to a 30-year-old treatment plant nearby.