East Windsor Voters To Be Asked If North Road Sewer Project Should Be Extended

The East Windsor Board of Selectmen Tuesday approved sending a proposal for a third phase of the North Road Sewer Project to town meeting.

The special town meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. on March 20. The meeting will be adjourned after discussion and the question will then be sent to referendum on March 28.

The town is proposing to borrow not more than $2.3 million to extend the sewers beyond the termination point of Phase II.  The board of finance last week also approved asking voters’ approval of the project.

Town officials are using a fast track timeline for the proposal so the town can have a referendum asking voters approval by the end of March. The USDA would need time to process the paperwork, officials said.

WPCA officials have said that the application for grants from US Department of Agriculture has to be made this spring before the agency uses population results from the 2010 census.

Officials said the extension would travel easterly, from Wells Road east to Yosky Road, and southerly, Rolocut and Wells roads to Skylark Airpark.

The program would be funded by USDA grants and low interest loans, and would cost about $2.254 million. The USDA would reimburse the town about 20 percent of the cost of the project through grants.

The town this fall approved taking money saved from the original project and extending it about 1,500 feet. The project was originally designed to stop at Mullen Road, but officials believed they could apply the cost savings to extending the sewers about 1,000 feet east to Wells Road and possibly to 1,500 feet for Phase II.