A challenge with backed-up bogs at the Lackawanna County Authorities Center aided to reveal an unrelated problem underneath a road outside the house.
It all started final month when the county started out recalling staff “full throttle” to the Authorities Middle at 123 Wyoming Ave., in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, county Chief of Staff members Brian Jeffers explained.
“For the first time in a very long time, the loos had been remaining made use of on a common foundation, and we experienced some plumbing problems,” he mentioned.
In late June, county officials shut down the restrooms on the second through fifth floors of the 6-story creating even though performing with Pennsylvania American Drinking water, which owns and operates the city’s sewer program, to come across a remedy, he reported.
Mark Dougher, the county director of maintenance, mentioned it was established the volume of the line leaving the making and connecting to the sewer procedure on Centre Street desired to be increased.
Crews replaced the present pipe, which was 4 inches in diameter, with 25 toes of 8-inch pipe at a expense of about $7,000, he claimed.
That took treatment of the county’s challenge and, soon after just about a 7 days, the shut restrooms reopened, Jeffers stated.
Nonetheless, as aspect of its perform with the county, Pennsylvania American Drinking water ran a digital camera by the sewer line on Centre Avenue and then north on Penn Avenue at the rear of the Authorities Centre, Dougher mentioned.
That’s when the utility learned a collapsed sewer pipe in the 100 block of Penn that “had practically nothing to do with us,” he mentioned.
A contractor began operate past week to switch about 80 ft of 12-inch sewer pipe on Penn, together with a collapsed manhole, utility spokeswoman Susan Turcmanovich said in an e mail. The task was anticipated to wrap up Thursday.
