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New Waterford to open water line bids Tuesday

NEW WATERFORD — The village will open bids for Phase II of its multi-million dollar water distribution project in the community center at noon on Tuesday.

Mayor Shane Patrone said that as of Thursday he didn’t know how many bids have been received.

“We probably won’t know until Monday or Tuesday,” he said, adding they will be sealed and he expects to have seven or eight or about the same number that was submitted for Phase I.

The village has 8.6 miles of water lines that are being replaced which distribute treated ground water to approximately 500 customers, and Phase II will see the installation of 18,300 linear feet (3.46 miles) of those new lines.

The village will receive just over $1 million in grant money from the Army Corps of Engineers toward the Phase II work.

“The engineers (Engineering Associates from Wooster) will do a cost evaluation regarding the lowest and the best bid,” Patrone said, explaining the bids have specific types of materials designated that are similar to what was used in the first phase.

“Things we need that are the same like meters and valves that so everything is uniform throughout,” he said, “the same as before so everything’s like Phase I.”

In other business, Patrone noted that Yarian Brother Construction of New Waterford had placed excavating equipment on the lot where a house stands that will be the future site of a new fire station.

Patrone expected tear-down work to begin next week, but it could be sooner.

The house on the corner of North State Street and Taylor Avenue was part of a block the village purchased a couple of years ago from the Columbiana County land bank.

There had been one other house on it and Patrone said the land bank is financing the demolition work and the village turned it back to the land bank and it will revert to the village when it’s down.

Patrone said once that’s done they can begin to look for money for the new fire station.

“There’s nothing yet,” he said other than having preliminary figures for a new station.

The current fire station is located at East Main and Boardman streets and will be repurposed for the street department garage once the new station is completed

When the village purchased the block, discussions regarding one of the two-story houses centered on turning it into a museum, but it was torn down after an inspection because it was in bad shape.

lshields@salemnews.net

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