MARLBORO – With an eye on making infrastructure improvements in the community, the Township Council has awarded a contract to a western Monmouth County firm for Marlboro’s 2017 drainage improvement program.
During a meeting on Nov. 2, the council awarded a $130,345 contract to R. Moslowski Excavating Inc., of the Cream Ridge section of Upper Freehold Township, according to a resolution.
R. Moslowski was selected from among six bidders who sought the drainage improvement contract from Marlboro.
The other bidders and the amount they were seeking (base bid plus alternate work) were: MNC Concrete LLC, $138,200; Lucas Brothers Inc., $144,000; Lucas Construction Group, $188,881; P.M. Construction Corp., $196,120; and Diamond Construction, $246,275, according to the resolution.
According to an advertisement and notice to bidders that was issued by Marlboro, the project “generally consists of miscellaneous drainage improvements throughout the township including Classic Way between Conover Road and Conway Court and the reconstruction of an outlet structure at Kensington Drive. The project generally includes the installation of various size … drainage pipe, … underdrain, drainage inlets, detention basin outlet structure, concrete curb and sidewalk, and all other associated work.”
According to a memo from Trevor Taylor of CME Associates, the township engineer, to Mayor Jonathan Hornik and council members, the engineer’s estimate for the work was $146,350, or about $16,000 more than the contract that was subsequently awarded to R. Moslowski Excavating.
In other business at the Nov. 2 meeting, council members gave consent for representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to access a township right of way at Greenwood and Tennent roads, and a right of way on Church Lane for the purposes of conducting environmental monitoring activities associated with the former Imperial Oil/Champion Chemical federal Superfund site remediation project.
Imperial Oil, as the Superfund site was commonly referred to, was off Tennent Road at Orchard Place, near Route 79. After decades of effort on the part of municipal officials, residents and other government representatives, the former toxic site was remediated by the federal government.
According to the council’s resolution, the EPA has requested right of access to the two township properties for the following purposes:
• Installation of one pair of groundwater monitoring wells that will be flush mounted on Greenwood/Tennent roads;
• Installation of one pair of groundwater monitoring wells that will be installed with steel stick-up casing on Church Lane;
• Performing well development, purging and sampling of the wells once installed on the properties.
As a condition of the access, the EPA and its contractors will restore the properties that are disturbed by the EPA’s activities, according to the resolution.