SEWER PROJECT AREAS

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SEWER PROJECT AREAS
CROSS STREET/FOREST HILL DRIVE SEWER CONTRACT AREA
ROUTE 495
ROUTE 93
ROGERS BROOK BALLARDVALE SEWER CONTRACT AREAS
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ROGERS BROOK BALLARDVALE SEWER CONTRACTS
Legend
Pump Station
Beneath Street Cross Country Force Main
Road Water Parcels
Contract Boundary Number
SEWERAGE 168,850 FEET (32.0 MILES) 1,330 UNITS
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CROSS STREET/FOREST HILL DRIVE SEWER CONTRACT
SEWERAGE 36,000 FEET (6.8 MILES) 236 UNITS
Note Articles 9 and 13 are from Fiscal Year
2000.
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Septic System Failures Continued Use Permits
Failures With Repair/Replacement
Failures With Continued Use Permits
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APPROPRIATIONS TO DATE So. Main St./Ballardvale
Rd. Rogers Brook Areas

• 22,500,000 WA 41 1999 ATM
• So. Main St./Ballardvale Rd. Area
• 4,300,000 WA 42 1999 ATM
• _________ Rogers Brook Area
• 26,800,000
• 1,250,000 WA 35 2004 ATM
• Supplemental Approp. Shawsheen
• _________ Intercepter Rogers Brook Area
• 28,050,000 TOTAL APPROPRIATION

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SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS ADDITIONAL COSTS

• Original Appropriations
• 22,500,000 Art. 41-1999 ATM
• 4,300,000 Art. 42-1999 ATM
• Additional Costs
• 1,055,000 Shawsheen Interceptor
• 510,000 So. Main St. Paving
• 903,000 Traffic Details
• 305,000 Easements
• 302,000 Additional Restoration
• 98,000 Engineering
• 402,000 Additional Construction Costs
• 175,000 Contract 4 Contingency
• 3,750,000
• 1,250,000 Art. 35-2004 ATM Supplemental Bond
  Authorization
• 2,500,000 Art. 2-2004 STM Supplemental Bond
  Authorization

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WHAT HAS CHANGED?

• State Mandates
• Shawsheen Intercepter Sewer Replacement
• DEP E.I.S Process Ipswich River Watershed
  Council (R.B./Contract IV)
• Mass Highway Dept. Additional Paving Requirements
  (Rte. 28 Main St.)
• Physical Conditions
• Encountered More Ledge/Rock Than Anticipated
• Time Delays
• No. Reading/Andover Water Sale Agreement (2000
  ATM)
• Rogers Brook Sewer Redesign for Spotted Turtles
  
• Adjusted Phasing to Accommodate New Schools in
  West Andover
• Re-bid Contract 2 Due to Town Required Design
  Change
• Local Factors
• More Streets Closed and Detours than Originally
  Anticipated (Sch. Buses)
• Closure and Detour of Main Street Required
  Additional Details
• Negotiated Easements
• Additional Restoration Work

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ATM ACTIONS

• 99 ATM 41 Construction Auth. 22.5 million
• 99 ATM 42 Construction Auth. 4.3 million
• 00 ATM 44 Andover/No. Reading Water
  Agreement
• 02 ATM 56 Sewer Easement Through C.C. Land
• 04 ATM 35 Supplemental Auth. 1.25 million
• 04 STM 2 Supplemental Auth. 2.5 million

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WHAT IS THE IMPACT TO THE PROPERTY OWNER?

• Betterments 2/3rds Cost
• A. If you live in the Ballardvale St./So. Main
  St. area, or the Rogers Brook area, your
  betterment will increase by an estimated 8.5
• B. If you do not live in those sewer areas,
  then you will not be impacted by the betterment
  increase.
• 2. Sewer Rate 1/3rd Cost
• A. All sewer users will be impacted by a
  minimal sewer rate increase of approximately
  5.00 per year.
• If there is no sewer service in your
  neighborhood, then
• there is no impact to you.