Residents of Northampton Township filed an injunction last week on behalf of Northampton Area Residents for Reasonable Sewers (NARRS) asking that county court prevent the township from entering into any contracts that could cause “financial hardship to the members of NARRS.” After a Bucks County judge ruled she didn’t have authority to issue the injunction, the township water and sewer board awarded a sewer contract this week to Joao & Bradley Construction in the amount of $596,969. The 41-home contract came after the state Department of Environmental Protection required the township to take “immediate steps” to expand its sewer system in accordance with the township’s Act 537 plan from 1997. The plan calls for public sewer lines for more than 400 properties in the township, as a result of the county health department’s discovery that some private on-lot septic systems are malfunctioning. The estimated $15 million expansion project could cost residents between $14,000 and $30,000 each, but exact prices have not been determined to date.
Despite injunction attempt, sewer project contract awarded
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Main Line and Beyond 
Posted on September 2, 2008
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