Links to reports:
- View 2018 Survey Form and results.
- Survey Results January 2019
- Town Sanitarian Letter May 26, 2020 – Request to Explore Sewer Option
- Dean Pocono Wastewater Management Plan – June 2020
- Public Information Meeting Presentation – Project Update (November 21, 2024)
This project has been fully engineered and bids received June 2026. The engineering work was partially with a Long Island Sound Future Fund (LISFF) grant of $1.5MM. Two options were designed and bid:
(1) Full gravity option, which is preferred. (It has a higher initial cost but has virtually no maintenance.) And
(2) A Low-Pressure system, where each property has its own pump. This approach has a lower initial cost because pipes can be shallow. But with pump maintenance, the long-term 30-year cost is the same in both cases.
The best Bid for the Gravity option is $8,000,000. The price for the Low-Pressure option is $5,000,000. In both cases the cost includes about $500,000 in soil contamination remediation for VOCs found in the area which could have been from farming activity a century ago.
By way of background see the attachments.
- Exhibit-A) HVA_Still River Management Plan Sept2019 Section4.6
- Exhibit-B) Housatonic Valley Association Report Brookfield 2022
- Exhibit-C) IWQR-2020-Priority-for-Action-Still River Water body ID CT6600-00_02
Map of properties involved
Typical lot for gravity system arrangement
Typical lot for forced pumping arrangement
Typical forced pumping system schematic
