LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen approved spending $5,000 Tuesday to have two patches put in a sewer main that is in disrepair and starting to collapse on lower Depot Street. The 100-year-old clay pipe connects on each end of a cement pipe that runs under the railroad tracks between manholes at the intersection of Pleasant Street and […]
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Jay to move forward on income survey to gain grant funds
JAY — Now that a $30 million bond question to improve wastewater infrastructures was passed by Maine voters, Sewer Superintendent Mark Holt can move forward on having a median income survey done. The majority of selectpersons voted in October to spend up to $30,000 to have an income study conducted of residents on the town’s […]
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Jay voters approved $3.9 million loan for new sewer system
JAY — The majority of residents at a special town meeting Monday vote to authorize selectpersons to borrow up to $3.9 million to install a system to send sewage from North Jay to Livermore Falls for treatment. The plan is to eliminate use of the North Jay Wastewater Treatment Plant. Instead a pump station, a […]
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Jay board grants three sewer bill abatements
JAY — Selectpersons voted Monday night to approve three sewer bill abatement requests because water leaking from a faucet, a water heater and a broken pipe did not enter the sewer system. Sewer bills are based on the amount of water used, according to Water District records. Superintendent Mark Holt of the Jay Sewer Department said […]
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Jay officials seek bids for clearing sewer line easement
JAY — Selectpersons voted Monday to get bids on clearing a roughly 20- by 2,000-foot sewer line easement in Livermore Falls. Sewer Department Superintendent Mark Holt said the job would likely cost between $5,000 and $10,000. The easement is roughly 2,000 feet long and 20 feet wide and has trees, poison sumac and ivy, vines […]
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Sewer mains being cleaned, residences could be affected
LIVERMORE FALLS — The Sewer Department over the next few weeks is having Ted Berry Co. clean all sewer mains south of the intersection of Main and Church streets. Residents “should expect to get some blow back through their flush if they don’t have a backflow preventer,” according to department Superintendent Greg Given. A toilet […]
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Jay authorizes spending up to $130,000 on three generators for sewer pump stations
JAY — Selectpersons voted Monday to allow the sewer superintendent to spend up to $130,000 to buy three generators for three sewer pump stations, including installation, wiring and removal of old generators. The board had agreed to spend up to $50,000 for a generator for pump station 2. That has already been installed and Superintendent […]
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Jay opts to send sewage for treatment in Livermore Falls
JAY — Selectpersons voted Monday to go with a pump station and force main system to send sewage from North Jay to an existing collection system to a Livermore Falls plant for treatment. The board opted not to upgrade the North Jay Wastewater Plant. The Jay plant is nearing 20 years old and needs to […]
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Bethel selectmen cancel today's special meeting; sewer problem being fixed
BETHEL — The Board of Selectmen canceled Wednesday’s special meeting to deal with a problem with the sewer line. The sewer drain line from the Bethel Post Office was going into the town’s storm drain and ending up in a brook. Building owner Carl Glidden has made arrangements to fix the problem himself. It was […]
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Jay seeking info from North Jay sewer customers
JAY — The superintendent of the town’s Sewer Department is expected to send surveys this week to customers in North Jay in an effort to get a grant to pay 75 percent of a planning study. Superintendent Mark Holt wants to determine if it is more cost effective to upgrade the nearly 20-year-old North Jay […]