1997-03-03-TE-Warrant-and-1997-03-24-ATM-Warrant

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ARTICLE 9 SANITARY SEWERS To see if the Town will vote to install sewer mains and sewerage systems and replacements thereof in such accepted or unaccepted streets or other land as the Selectmen may determine, subject to the assessment of betterments or otherwise, in accordance with Chapter 504 of the Acts of 1897, and acts in addition thereto and in amendment thereof, or otherwise, and to take by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor, appropriate money for such installation and land acquisition and determine whether the money shall be provided by the tax levy, by transfer from available funds, including any special sewer funds, or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; authorize the Selectmen to apply for, accept, expend and borrow in anticipation of federal and state aid for such sewer projects; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. (Inserted by the Board of Selectmen) FUNDS REQUESTED: $560,000 DESCRIPTION: This article requests sewer enterprise funds of$560,000 for the Collection Sewer Program. State requirements for existing and replacement on-site sewerage disposal systems are much stricter under the so-called Title V requirements. These funds will allow the Town to extend sewers to those residential dwellings not currently serviced. Funding for Phase I was approved by the 1996 Town Meeting. Funding is now being requested for Phase II. ARTICLE 10 SEWER SYSTEM REHAB PROGRAM To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money to remove infiltration of ground water from the sewer system; determine whether the money shall be provided by the tax levy, by transfer from available funds, including any special sewer funds, by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. (Inserted by the Board of Selectmen) FUNDS REQUESTED: $300,000 DESCRIPTION: Now that the Town is about to be charged on flow basis for sewerage treatment by MWRA, it seems prudent for the Town to be aggressive in reducing the infiltration of ground water into the Lexington Sewer System by instituting a rehabilitation program. We are recommending a 30 year program of rehabilitating all the pipes in the sewer collection system which consist of approximately 5000 manholes, 650,000 of street mains and 180,000 of trunk sewers. Funding of$300,000 per year is recommended to rehabilitate 28,000 feet of sewers, including manholes, each year for 30 years. 15