A failing near-century-old pipe that conveys two million gallons of sewage per day will be replaced by laying new pipe along a vacant street at the Dunellen border.
The project was explained Thursday at a special meeting of the Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority.
Michael Dziubeck of CME & Associates said the deteriorating pipe runs along the Green Brook, but replacing it in that location would disturb the brook and new pipe could be exposed through erosion. The alternative proposed was to place new pipe along Second Street, abutting and extending north on Jefferson Avenue.
The proposed site contains freshwater wetlands and the firm will handle the permitting process. Initial phases of the project include surveying and mapping at $6,878, design and specifications for $47,483 and permit acquisition over six months at $12,614 for a total of $66,975. PMUA Chairman Harold Mitchell asked whether the Plainfield Area Regional Sewerage Authority was involved and Dziubeck said they had to sign off on the project but were not part of it. (Sewage flows through the PMUA system, then through PARSA's system on the way to treatment by the Middlesex County Utilities Authority.)
The project is expected to be completed by July 2014.
--Bernice
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