Bradford Sanitary Authority field crews reached a significant milestone recently, completing a systemwide assessment of its sanitary infrastructure.

Executive Director Steve Disney said the 5-year project included an exhaustive cleaning, flushing, video recording and final assessment ratings on the entire system — 180,000 lineal feet (more than 34 miles) of sanitary main and 753 manholes. Any areas found to be in urgent need of repair were immediately addressed.

The project coincided with the authority’s stormwater system assessment, completed last October. The authority will use the data collected in future capital plans.

Regarding the authority’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit, Disney said they received a survey from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) CleanWater Program that will be due in mid-August. He added the authority is also considering additional sampling.

For its meter project, the authority received the first shipment of meters and associated equipment, which will be stored at the Glenwood Avenue warehouse.

The repository property at 159 E. Main St. on which the authority bid last winter has been approved by each of three governing entities, Bradford City Council, Bradford Area School District and McKean County. Disney said paperwork is processing to allow authority crews to use the property to access sanitary main and several manholes behind a row of houses along this stretch of East Main.

Disney reported that stormwater delinquencies were steady in June, while sanitary delinquencies increased slightly.

In new business, the authority filed an incorporated work request for the planned West Washington Street corridor upgrade so that PennDOT can create a cost share offer letter. As the project will require significant changes and adjustments to buried infrastructure, the authority set up Bankson Engineers with its GIS mapping for use during its design phase.

Field crews have continued work on troublesome manholes throughout the city, renovating covers to the proper height and size to smooth the ride for passing motorists. Personnel also conducted their July safety meeting, focused on hazards of working around insects such as bees, wasps and ticks.

Both the Bradford City Water and Sanitary authorities took part in the Touch-a-Truck event held recently at Callahan Park. Employees showed off several authority trucks and pieces of equipment. They noted that the Sanitary Authority’s remotely controlled camera was “a special hit” with kids attending the event, which was the culmination of this year’s Summer in the Park series, a collaborative effort between United Way of the Bradford Area, Kiwanis Club of Bradford, Bradford Area Public Library and several other local organizations.

Due to a scheduling conflict, the board approved moving the August meeting back one week from Aug. 19 to Aug. 26.