Thirteen new homes on Onofrio Street will be able to connect to
the Bradford sewer system pending approval from the state
Department of Environmental Protection.
The Bradford Sanitary Authority carried a motion at the meeting,
tentatively approving the connections for 13 new homesites on the
north end of Onofrio Street on the condition that the DEP approves
the additional EDUs – equivalency dwelling unit, or one
“hook-up.”
According to a letter to the Bradford Sanitary Authority from
Jeff Andrews of the Office of Economic and Community Development,
nine homes on Onofrio Street have been demolished as part of the
ongoing changes there; a commercial structure on Boylston Street
was demolished by the city; and a church and four residential
structures adjoining Bishop Street.
Just this year, the city demolished nine more residential
structures at different locations, as well as the four lost on
Kennedy Street last month, the letter points out.
Those demolitions make up more than double the EDUs needed by
the OECD for the Onofrio Street housing development.
In other business, authority chairman Daniel J. Hartle asked
secretary Karla Leon to set up a meeting with officials at Foster
Township to resolve an issue surrounding a connection at or near
the WESB Radio station building on St. Francis Drive. He also asked
treatment plant operations manager Barry Anderson to accompany him
to the meeting.
Other ongoing connection problems were also discussed at the
meeting, with Anderson reporting that the city has yet to move on
illegal connections in a parking lot on Congress Street – an issue
that has plagued the authority for several years, Hartle pointed
out.
Authority member Ernest “Bucky” Clark said it was his
understanding that the city addressed a connection in the Congress
Street area, but had mistakenly corrected a different drain.
Hartle and Anderson concurred that the only illegal connection
on a list of those to be addressed that had been repaired was one
on Pine Street.
Authority solicitor Richard W. Mutzabaugh said he will again
contact Bradford City Clerk John Peterson about the illegal
connections.
Anderson pointed out that five illegal connections – two parking
lot drains and three roof drains -ðat the Bradford Regional Medical
Center renovation site will be remedied before the project is
completed. He estimated all five would be corrected within six
months.
