Cranberry Township supervisors heard several project updates from township staff at Thursday’s supervisors meeting.
Assistant roadmaster Michael O’Neil gave a report in the absence of supervisor Ted Williams.
At last month’s evening meeting, township manager Eric Heil said the township would be placing a bridge overlay on the Meadow Church Road bridge to reopen it until repairs can be completed.
Heil said he had a meeting scheduled later Thursday with engineering firm The EADS Group for “scoping out work” on the bridges at Zacherl Road, Aires Hill Road and Monarch Park Road.
Heil said the intention is to apply for a Local Share Account grant that has opened and a multimodal transportation grant. Funds from the grants, if received, would go toward the bridge work, he added.
“Did engineering say on Zacherl bridge they’re just starting engineering on it and they can’t order any materials or anything till that’s done?,” asked supervisors vice-chair Bob Betzold, who is out of state and attended Thursday’s meeting by phone.
Heil indicated that the engineers had said they won’t be ordering materials until the engineering is done. He said it likely won’t be until spring that the Zacherl and Aries Hill bridges are fixed.
“That’s one of the questions I have for them today is when do they announce that grant funding,” Heil said.
In other discussion Thursday, utility supervisor Mike Erwin said he had spent two afternoons at 4 Your Car Connection to “figure out where everything is” so the business can put an addition on its building.
In addition, Erwin said the utilities department had put new road risers on East State Road before it gets new blacktop, and had fixed for the second time a plugged sewer line on Shady Lane.
“We’re waiting on some kinda cruddy weather to go up and see what’s going on with it, see if there’s any cracks or anything,” Erwin said of the sewer line.
He added the township had also done a water tap on Route 322 for a man who owned a property and wanted his own utilities, and crews had also finished a Department of Environmental Protection-mandated enclosure around the township’s filling station where people buy water.
Township zoning officer Regina DeLoe said she had issued 10 permits in September for $856,350 in project costs for items such as additions, sheds, signs, a garage, service garage and office additions. Fees for those permits totaled $1,066, she said.
And DeLoe has issued a number of warnings for failure to apply for required permits, burning violations and high grass.
She also said a variance hearing for the Wagner Eye Care building had been approved by the zoning hearing board.
