Public Works Director Mark Turlington shared some good news on water projects with county commissioners at Monday night’s regular monthly board meeting.
Residents in the area of what’s termed the GFL project, which consists of South Salemburg Highway (NC 242), Lakewood School Road, Bubba Gump Lane, Laurel Lake Road, White Woods Road, Marion-Amos Road, Fleet Cooper Road, The Avenue and Bonnetsville Road, will be able to sign up for half-priced water connections next Monday, Jan. 12, Turlington said.
“We’ll recruit for 60 days, which will be end of recruiting on March 11,” he shared. “If people will sign up in that 60- day period, they can get a free quarter-inch pipe for $600 and one inch pipe for $850. That’s half price because usually what we’re charging is $1,200 for a quarter and $1,700 for one inch.”
To learn more, call the Public Works Department at 910-592-0188, or visit the Public Works page on the county’s website, www.sampsoncountync.gov.
The Ivanhoe project is nearing completion, he reported, with pressure testing on the main lines starting on Tuesday. “The delivery date on the booster pump, which is the main piece we need to get it working, it should be in March, the middle to end of March,” he added.
The Clement Phase 2 project is currently in the permit stage, Turlington shared, adding that he is waiting for the Department of Transportation to okay the permits to do the project. “Hopefully, we can put Clement Phase 2 out for bid in the near future,” he said.
Commissioners recently approved pursuing grant opportunities to provide water to residents on Old Warsaw Road. Turlington reported that his department will submit an engineering report by the end of February to the Department of Environmental Quality. That will probably push the project back a month or two, he said, but added that the project will move forward.
Finally, Turlington reported that the iron-manganese treatment plant on Faison Highway has had no work done for over a month now, due to problems with the previous contractor. He stated that the county has hired another engineering firm to do the work, and a conference call was scheduled for Tuesday morning to get that project going again.