CF board OKs stream project
Chadds Ford Township supervisors Wednesday night voted to approve a stream restoration project, a traffic light study, and to guarantee a loan for the Sewer Authority.
The stream restoration project is for the Brinton Run Preserve off Oakland Road. NALT, the North American Land Trust, owns the 71-acre property but needed township approval because Chadd’s Ford owns the easement.
NALT President Steven Carter said at the January workshop that the project has been on the books for about four years and involves drilling about eight borings to see how water flows in and through the soil as baseline data before the actual restoration.
Carter called into Wednesday’s meeting — held via Zoom because of the weather — that NALT will be as transparent as possible throughout the process and that this is the right process to take.
Supervisors’ Vice Chairman Kathleen Goodier called the project “pretty major,” adding “It seems to be a necessary one. They have a major problem with discharge on the property. They believe that with all their engineering and many studies that they’ve done, that it will improve the situation for them as well as for everyone downstream.”
Timotha Trigg, supervisors’ chairman, referred to the project as being a “public service.”
“I think it’s to all our benefit that this work gets underway, and it seems like it will be very helpful so far as stormwater maintenance,” she said.
Supervisors also approved Chadds Ford teaming with Concord Township in retaining the services of Rhythm Engineering of Kansas to study the traffic light timing along Routes 1 and 202.
Township engineer Mike Schneider said the timing and coordination of the adaptive system that determines the timing of the lights are dated and need to be adjusted.
Chadds Ford and Concord townships share four of those traffic signals. The costs involved are $1,000 per light, and Chadds Ford will pay a total of $4,000 for the work. Of that amount, Chadds Ford will pay $1,000 each for the two lights for which it is responsible and split the cost for the four shared lights.
The Board of Supervisors also voted to guarantee a loan request of $300,000 for the Sewer Authority. As reported last month, the loan would come from the Delaware Valley Regional Finance Authority to replace the Woodland Pump Station. DVRFA requires the township’s guarantee before lending money to a sewer authority.
Sewer Authority Chairman Mark Stookey said last month that the authority is financially stable and can pay back the 20-year note without difficulty because of the revenue it gets from tapping and user fees.
Goodier, who is the supervisor’s liaison to the Sewer Authority said Wednesday that the pump station needs to be replaced, calling it “a problem that’s not going to go away, and they need to fix it.”
Other business
Supervisors established a new compensation package for the elected tax collector to begin next year after the 2025 election for tax collector. The package includes a base salary of $17,834, plus $15 per interim tax bill generated and $15 for issuing a late notice for a maximum of two late notices per delinquent taxpayer.
About Rich Schwartzman
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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