The Porter Town Board approved issuing $350,000 worth of bonds at its December meeting to recoup the cost of recent sewer line repairs.
Town Supervisor Duffy Johnston said the work will focus on replacing a manhole cover at the sewer pump station on the Old Fort Niagara grounds. Sewage from there is sent to the Lewiston Wastewater Treatment Plant.
“The manhole there was compromised by years of sewer gas and the way the sewer was coming in there,” Johnston said.
Work on that line finished in November, with the town contracting Milherst Construction of Clarence Center for the work. That work included Wendel Engineering changing the flow of sewer water so this does not happen with the new manhole cover and installing a new fence around the pump station.
The town has already funded the cost for the repairs, and this bonding is meant to get the funds back. As the work took place within the Village of Youngstown and on State Park property, the village and state would be repaying a certain percentage of the cost.
The bonds have a maximum maturity of these bonds will exceed five years, with the resolution stating their probable usefulness is 40 years.
There were no comments made at a public hearing for these bonds in November.