HomeMy WebLinkAboutEngineer's Report March 1970VILLAGE OF CAYUGA HEIGHTS
ENGINEER'S REPORT
MARCH 1970
SEWER LINES
City of Ithaca Water and Sewer Department has completed the section of 8" sewer line
replacement under Dearborn Lane.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Tompkins County Department of Health in a letter of March 4, 1970 requested that we
obtain a new site for sludge disposal before June 1970. A site has been located
which is acceptable to the Tompkins County Department of Health and the owner of
which has requested the digested sludge. Requests have been received from this
owner prior to this time but because of our old tanker truck, it was impossible
to deliver the sludge. The new tanker truck seems adequate to do the job. Tompkins
County Department of Health is in the process of issuing us a formal permit and
permission to use this site.
ADDITIONS TO SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Test boring is about 90% complete. Additional test holes have been requested by
the consulting engineers and authorization has been given to the contractor to
proceed with the work. The estimated cost is an additional $300. There is also
some additional subsurface exploration needed for the outfall pipe which will lie
on the bottom of Cayuga Lake.
It is recommended at this time that the Village Board authorize our consulting
engineers to design and make part of the sewer plant additions a forced sewer main
•that will bring sewage from the area to the west of East Shore Drive. The Village
is committed to the installation of such a forced sewer main and the most economic
time for the installation of such line is during the construction of the plant
alterations and additions.
Requests have been received from the Town of Lansing to accept sewage from a 120 unit
motel to be built on a site due east of the Howard Johnson Inn in an area which is
not now included in a sewer district. The major problem from the Village standpoint
is the adequacy of the sewer main within the Village to carry this sewage to the
plant.
Delbert Grover took the Civil Service Examination for Sewage Treatment Plant Operator
and passed the examination with a rating of 77.5.
WATER LINES
We have received hydrant reports from the City of Ithaca for all fire hydrants
located within the Village boundaries. These will be on file in the Clerk's office
and available to the Fire Department as well as the engineer's office.
STREETS
The installation of a larger culvert at 380 The Parkway has been completed except
for grading work which will be finished when the frost is out of the ground.
•Streets maintenance crew has been busy patching pot holes and with the repair of
the snow plow and other equipment.
SNOW REMOVAL
There has been little requirement for overtime during the past month. There seems to
be adequate salt to carry through until the end of the winter season.
J. B. Rogers, Village Engineer