Madison Village Council OKs emergency request to buy new component for community's wastewater treatment plant

Madison Village Council has taken action on an emergency request to acquire a part needed to keep the community’s wastewater treatment plant operating properly.

Council, during its Aug. 28 meeting, approved a purchase order for $3,488 to buy a Dodge Transmission Torque Arm for the wastewater treatment plant. The village will buy the component from Applied Industrial Technologies, which is based in Cleveland.

For the past few years, the village has been purchasing necessary replacement parts for the plant as it awaits completion of a major infrastructure project that will change how the community deals with its wastewater.

“I assure you, at some point we’ll have final expenses for the wastewater treatment plant,” village Administrator Dwayne Bailey said at the council meeting.

During that same gathering, village Engineer Eric Haibach said a sanitary sewer interconnection project in the community is wrapping up.

“Over the next couple of weeks, Chivers Construction will be focusing on site restoration,” Haibach said.

Chivers, which is based in Fairview, Pennsylvania, was awarded a $7.4 million contract by Village Council in August to build the new system.

The sanitary sewer interconnection project has involved construction of a new trunk line to convey the village’s wastewater to Lake County’s sanitary sewer pump station. That station is located near Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on Hubbard Road in Madison Township.

Lake County then will complete a companion project involving the installation of a new trunk line to direct the village’s sanitary sewage to the county Utilities Department’s Wastewater Treatment Plant on Cashen Road in Madison Township.

Once the entire interconnection is finished and functioning, the village will stop accepting and treating wastewater, and decommission its wastewater treatment plant on Middle Ridge Road.

Madison Village ultimately will transfer billing, operations and administration of sewer and water service in the community to the county Utilities Department. That transition was approved in February 2018 through an agreement involving the village and Lake County commissioners.

Other purchase orders approved by council on Aug. 28 included:

• $10,000 to Specialized Construction of Newburgh Heights for crack sealing various roads in the village.

• About $3,202 to Winter Equipment of Willoughby to buy new blades for the village’s sidewalk snowplow.

• $7,200 to Peroni Concrete of Madison Township for a concrete road repair on Saxton Street.

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