Ordinances lead to Lawrence street projects

Public hearing set for May 6 council meeting.

By: Lea Kahn
   Township Council has introduced two bond ordinances that pave the way for several streets, scattered across the township, to receive a new layer of asphalt later this year. Two streets will be reconstructed.
   Township Council introduced the two bond ordinances — one for $600,000 and another for $260,000 last week. A public hearing on the bond ordinances is scheduled for the council’s May 6 meeting.
   There is money in the $600,000 bond ordinance to remove the top 2 inches of asphalt from 11 streets. Then, 2 inches of new asphalt will be applied to the road surface, Municipal Engineer Christopher Budzinski said.
   A contract will be awarded for the milling, or removal of the top layer of asphalt, Mr. Budzinski said. The township Public Works Department will apply the 2 inches of new asphalt.
   The work will be divided into two phases. One group of roads will be done in the spring or summer. Those streets are Jochris Drive, Lenox Drive, Pilla Avenue, Province Line Road between Route 206 and Carson Road, and Sturwood Way.
   In the fall, the mill-and-overlay work will be done on Camelia Court, Colonial Lake Drive, Dogwood Drive, Hopatcong Drive North, Rosalind Drive and Rosetree Lane.
   The second bond ordinance appropriates $260,000 to do a mill and overlay project on Glenn Avenue and Stonicker Drive. However, the township has received a $150,000 grant from the state Department of Transportation’s Transportation Trust Fund.
   The milling and overlay work for the Glenn Avenue and Stonicker Drive projects will be bid out to a contractor, Mr. Budzinski said. That work will be done in the fall, he said.