An engineering firm has been chosen to monitor the progress of an infrastructure project that will take place in the northern part of Madison Township.
Civil and Environmental Consultants Inc. will provide construction administration and inspection services for a new stormwater sewer to be installed in the 6700 block of Beach Drive. Trustees, during their March 11 meeting, approved a resolution to enter into a contract with CEC.
Trustees previously authorized a contract with TK Excavating and Grading to install a new stormwater sewer on Beach Drive, near its intersection with Avalon Drive.
TK Excavating and Grading, which is based in Girard, Ohio, will perform the project for about $60,058, according to a resolution approved by trustees.
The project will involve installation of a new and larger sewer line that directs stormwater into Lake Erie. This type of sewer line also is known as an outfall.
Township leaders were notified last year by a resident of Beach Drive who began having problems with stormwater ending up in his garage instead of going into the outfall and flowing into the lake.
The township also had been having problems with standing water at the northern end of Avalon Drive, where it intersects with Beach Drive.
By replacing the current outfall, which is undersized, with a new and larger sewer line, township officials are hoping that the project will correct the problems with standing water and the water going into the resident’s garage.
CEC will receive $18,100 to conduct construction administration and inspection for the Beach Drive stormwater sewer project.
“This money will be reimbursed through the Lake County Stormwater Department,” said township Administrator Tim Brown. “One of the big reasons we’re having CEC do the inspection is, we’re repairing an outfall that exists into Lake Erie, so we want to make sure we do things so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers doesn’t get upset with us.”
CEC, which is based in Pittsburgh, serves the Cleveland area from an office in Mayfield Heights.
Brown told trustees that CEC engineers won’t be the only officials checking on TK Excavating and Grading’s progress once the sewer line installation gets underway.
“(Township Service Department Supervisor) Paul Cook will stop by unannounced, and the Lake County Stormwater Department has an engineer on staff, and they stop by unannounced. So there will be plenty of eyeballs on it.”
