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015 0/5 PAGGI. MARTIN & DEL BENE LLP Consulting En~ineers & Land SUT'Deyors 54-56 Main Street Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 914-471-7898 914-471-0905 (FAX) June 22, 1998 RECEIVED JUN 2 5 1998 ELAINE SNOWDEN TOWN CLE'RK Town Board Town of Wappinger P.O. Box 324 Wappingers Falls, New York 12590 Attention: Constance O. Smith, Supervisor Reference: Rockingham Sewer Line Rehabilitation All Angels Hill Road/Kent Road Dear Supervisor Smith & Board Members: This report is written to update you on the events that have taken place during the above referenced project, and to provide an update as to the current conditions of the projects as per Monday, June 22nd, 1998. MAY 18TH, 1998: On May 18th, 1998, this office met with Gerhardt Rodenburger, Project Manager for New Hope Pipe Liners, Inc., and Dare Fitizpatrick from Camo Pollution Control, at the site for a pre-construction meeting regarding the project. At this meeting, we were informed by the New Hope Pipe liners representatives the entire lining process from start to finish would take approximately 10-12 hours to complete. The liner would be installed within 1-2 hours with the curing process taking 4-6 hours. The laterals would then be reinstated to allow service to continue within a time frame of 2 - 3 hours. We asked Mr. Rodenberger if there would be any problems with plugging the Kent Road manhole even though a force main discharge flows into this. He informed us that that would not be a problem and that they would use a flow through plug and bypass pumping would be provided to allow them to continue their work. He also indicated that the work would commence at 7:00 a.m. and proceed until 6:00 p.m. thereby utilizing the time when most residents were at work, and therefore, would not be using a large amount of water. Joseph E. Paggi, Jr., P.E. Ernst Martin, Jr., P.E., L.S. Charles R. Del Bene, Jr., P.E. Constance O. Smith Town Board - 2 - June 22, 1998 We then asked if the re-lining work could be performed from one manhole (specifically the one at the corner of Kent Road and All Angels). He indicated that that would be their procedure, and there would be no need to enter the intermediate manhole along this pipe run which was in the front yard of 228 All Angels Hill Road. We also went over the required traffic control, including flag people to allow the work to proceed if cars were parked along All Angels Hill Road. They did not have a problem with that. Camo Pollution Control seemed to be satisfied leaving the flow through plug in and not causing any problems with their force main discharge. All parties at the meeting seemed satisfied. The meeting was completed with the Contractor indicating he would need approximately 2-3 weeks to order and receive the liner prior to commencement of work. I asked him to keep me informed of the status, and asked him to see if he could get this material as soon as possible so we can being this project. On June 12th, 1998, the Contractor sent out a TV and cleaning crew to start cleaning the sewer main, and also do the camera work to locate and document the exact location of the sewer laterals. Our inspector Jim Majors was on the site at the time, and also viewed the TV camera work that was performed in this pipeline. This work was completed at approximately 2:00 p.m. Friday afternoon and the Contractor stated that they would be back on Monday to finish the cleaning and TV work prior to starting to install the liner. JUNE 15TH, 1998: On Monday, June 15th, 1998, the Contractor came with full crew including TV and cleaning equipment, and boiler truck which is used to cure the liner. The started work at approximately 9:00 a.m. with the cleaning and camera work. During the cleaning portion of the work, the Contractor needed water for his cleaning truck. Camo Pollution Control allowed them to fill their water truck from the Hilltop Water Plant site. With the water truck filled, the Contractor then proceeded to pull off of All Angels Hill Road to the intermediate manhole, which was in the middle of a homeowner's front yard. The truck proceeded to become stuck in the front yard and could not be backed out. Constance O. Smith Town Board - 3 - June 22, 1998 The homeowner then came out, and asked why this truck was parked there. She had called the Town and the New York State Troopers due to this incident. We spoke to the resident and explained that we would get the truck out of the yard as soon as possible. A New York State Trooper came on site. I explained the situation and the happenings that had occurred up to that point, and that the Contractor was now calling for a wrecker to come and pull the truck out of the yard. Once the truck was removed, we inspected the damage. There appeared to be two wheel ruts in the yard. The Contractor filled in the holes with topsoil, raked the area and seeded. However, by the time the truck was removed and cleaning operations commenced again, they could not start the liner due to the fact it was too late in the day, and they would not be able to get the liner installed and cured in time for the residents to have sewer service the following morning. The Contractor then informed us that the lining work would commence tomorrow, Tuesday, June 16th, 1998. JUNE 16TH. 1998: On June 16th, 1998, the Contractor was ready to work at 8:00 a.m. He performed some preliminary TV and cleaning work and then set up for the liner installation. At 11 :00 a.m., the tower truck setup over the manhole at Kent Road and worked proceeded. The tower trucked was raised to get the platform up high enough to insert the liner. However, our Inspector then stopped work shortly after 11 :00 a.m. because of the tower truck's proximity to the Central Hudson power lines. Jim Tremper, Camo Pollution, called Central Hudson and asked them to come to site, which in turn the utility company came and shielded the lines. Once the lines were shielded the work then continued. The insertion of the liner started at approximately 1 :00 p.m. and was completed at 2:30 p.m. However, during the installation process a tear at the end of liner was noticed, and the Contractor needed to make a repair. - Constance O. Smith Town Board - 4 - June 22, 1998 In order to make the repair, the Contractor had to reduce the amount of water pressure on the liner at that particular time in order to get the repair clamp over the area of the tear. The tear was repaired and the curing process was started at approximately 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 16th, 1998. At 6:00 p.m. that evening, Mr. Ames, resident at the corner of Kent Road and All Angels Hill Road, complained about wheel ruts that were in the yard due to the tower truck pulling onto the edge of his yard off the road. This area appears to be in the Town right-of-way, however, we informed the Contractor that these ruts would have be repaired. Also at 6:00 p.m. a complaint about water in the basement was issued by the homeowner at 226 All Angel Hill Road. The Contractor then informed the resident that the service would be reinstalled by 8:00 p.m. At 9:00 p.m., the resident filed another complaint. Our Inspector, Jim Majors, told a laborer to inform the foreman. The foreman was not present on site. The laborer told the homeowner that service would be back in one hour. At 11: 15 p.m., the homeowner at 226 All Angels Hill Road had complained again that no one cleaned up the backup of water in the basement. Our inspector located the foreman and instructed him to see the resident. At 1 :45 a.m., the Contractor's foreman finally went to said homeowner and mopped up the backup of water in the basement and promised again to have service reinstalled by 6:00 a.m. JUNE 17. 1998: At 2:00 a.m., the homeowner of 224 All Angels Hill Road asked if service would be back on line by the morning. The foreman informed the owner that service would be back by 6:00 a.m. Mr. AI Belarge, at 232 All Angels Hill Road, informed us Wednesday, June 17th, 1998, when he returned at 5:00 p.m. the night before he noticed that water was backing up in his house, and at 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. flooding begin in the 1 st floor bathtub. He indicated that he notified one of workers for the Contractor and told him he was having backup of water into his bathroom. However, the worker did not notify our inspector or their foreman of this problem. Mr. Belarge then said he called the emergency phone numbers for New Hope Pipe Liners that were on the notification letter that was sent to all the Homeowners in the area about the project. Constance O. Smith Town Board - 5 - June 22, 1998 He said that after trying all the numbers, he received no response from New Hope Pipe Liners. JUNE 17TH, 1998: Supervisor Smith, Michael Tremper of Camo Pollution Control, and this office met with Mr. Belarge on Wednesday, June 17th, 1998 to look at the damage and to talk to him about what had transpired through the evening. This office then went to other residents along All Angels Hill Road involved in the project area to see if they were experiencing any problems in their homes. We did find a small backup in the bathroom of 224 All Angel Hill Road, however, it was a small amount of water which removed one floor tile. The homeowner cleaned the area and indicated that they would replace said tile. The homeowner of 226 All Angels Hill Road had showed me the area of the leak into his basement, which the workers had cleaned at 1 :00 a.m.. The conditions included wet sheetrock, continuous water on the floor, and it appeared that backup occurred in the slop sink which was in the basement. The homeowner of 228 All Angels Hill Road could not be reached for a few days, due to no one was home at the time. However, when they were contacted there was no backup problem in this house. We then visited the homeowner at 230 All Angles Hill Road and were told that there was flooding in the downstairs bathroom from the toilet and into the tub. This backup then leaked from the bathroom through the common wall into the garage, which sustained some damage to the sheetrock and tile around the toilet area. We then spoke to the homeowner at 234 All Angels Hill Road on Wednesday, at 1 :35 p.m., and indicated that he had no problems up to that time. The homeowner at 207 All Angels Hill Road experienced a slight backup in the downstairs bathroom which ruined the rug in the bath. The homeowner removed the rug and there was no apparent damage to the floorboards underneath. Constance O. Smith Town Board - 6 - June 22, 1998 We then continued to monitor the individual homes on both sides of All Angels Hill Road to update any further problems or backups. The Contractor was now trying to reinstate the service connection along the pipe route. He had difficulties getting through some lateral at which time, Tom Weber, Licensed Plumber, was called in by New Hope to snake the lateral lines from the house toward the sewer main. At 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, June 1 ]lh, 1998, the Contractor could not get his cleaning equipment into the sewer line at the downstream manhole because of the blockage in the pipe which may have been the liner itself. The plumber that was on site had a smaller TV camera that could sit up into the sewer main which we did install to see what kind of obstruction was in the pipe. It was found that the liner was twisted and not fully compressed against the sides of the existing pipe. At that time, the Contractor had asked this office if we knew of a local excavator who could come in a possible dig this section of pipe line up. We suggested they contact Ben Ciccone, Inc. because we were confident that they could perform the job, having the necessary equipment, and personnel to allow us to excavate the pipe adjacent to the County Road. Representatives of Ben Ciccone were onsite around 12:00 noon to start a list of the equipment necessary to perform this job. We then contacted Peter Nedwell of the Dutchess County Department of Public Works, informing him of the emergency situation that was at hand and would proceed as if the DCDPW Permit was acquired and use the proper signage, flag personnel and whatever other means were necessary to maintain traffic. Mr. Nedwell was in agreement with this and a representative would be sent to the job in question. Underground Utilities was then called for a markoff. Central Hudson arrived at the site and marked off the gas main, which ran down the east side of All Angels Hill Road. Camo Pollution Control was onsite and proceeded to mark out the water main, which was east of the existing sewer main in the Town easement. Constance O. Smith Town Board - 7 - June 22, 1998 Camo Pollution Control brought in their camera truck and equipment and proceeded to TV the sewer line from upstream down towards the obstruction that was found by the Contractor. The camera proceeded to a point where it could not go any further due to this obstruction, and this end was marked. Town Attorney Ira Pergament was asked to come to the site to draft a memo of understanding. This was done and signed by the Project Manager for New Hope. Copies are included herein and include the following: 1. New Hope would complete all contract work, which included the reinstatement of all laterals to the satisfaction of this office. 2. The additional work required would be the responsibility of New Hope Pipe Liners, Inc. This includes incurring the costs for Camo Pollution Control and the excavating contractor, Ben Ciccone, Inc. 3. New Hope Pipe Liners would be responsible for cleanup and restoration necessary to completion of the additional work. 4. New Hope Pipe Liners would be responsible for the cost by the homeowners to repair interior damage caused by sewer lateral backups. We then forwarded this letter to Gerhardt Rodenberger, for his review and acceptance. After locating the two ends of the obstruction, it appeared that approximately 50' of the existing sewer main would have to be excavated, removed, and replaced with PVC sewer pipe. Ben Ciccone, Inc. had the equipment onsite and ready to go at approximately 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 17th, 1998 Work then proceeded by finding the water main on both ends of the blockage to insure that the water main was not damaged during the sewer work. Workers from both Ben Ciccone, Inc. and Camo Pollution Control worked on the sewer line replacement. Constance O. Smith Town Board - 8 - June 22, 1998 JUNE 18. 1998: The work continued through the evening until approximately 6:30 a.m., Thursday, June 18th, 1998, when the final connection was made and the two services had been completed. Backfilling operations then proceeded in order to close-up the excavations and somewhat stabilize the site. New Hope Pipe Liners television crew was on site Thursday morning to reinstate the remaining two sewer laterals. They incurred some problems with a piece of equipment breaking down causing them not to start the lateral reinstatement until approximately 9:00 a.m., Thursday, June 18th, 1998. Once again when trying to cut in the last two sewer laterals, they could not fully open the laterals and they notified the plumber, Tom Weber, to come back on site this day and try to cut open the laterals as he had done on Wednesday evening. The plumber arrived at the site at 4:00 p.m. that afternoon, and proceeded to open up the sewer laterals at 230 and 232 All Angles Hill Road. JUNE 19TH. 1998: This work proceeded until 12: 15 a.m., Friday, June 19th, 1998. The plumber indicated he could not proceed any further due to the fact he had damaged all the bits he had on his trucks, however, they did not break through the lateral to the main. At that time, I informed New Hope Pipe Liners' foreman to advise the homeowners that they would be out of service and try not to use the facilities as much as possible. The Homeowners were not happy with this situation. During the evening more backup of sewer occurred at Mr. Belarge's house, and he informed us of that Friday morning, at which time we were at the site to assess the additional backup in his house. Constance O. Smith Town Board - 9 - June 22, 1998 Ben Ciccone was back on site on Friday to landscape and clean-up the area, however, they were utilized to dig up the laterals for 230 and 232 All Angels Hill Road so they could be cut out and replaced. The lateral at 232 was repaired at 12:30 p.m. The lateral at 230 was repaired and completed at 5:00 p.m. At this time all sewer laterals were back on line. Ben Ciccone proceeded to backfill these two excavations, start roadway cleanup and stabilized the shoulder and lawn areas that were disturbed during the repair work. Today, Ben Ciccone was back on site to perform blacktop and landscape restoration in the areas required. As noted previously, New Hope Pipe Liners accepted the conditions upon which their responsible for the cost of the additional work to replace that section of main which had not been properly relined. The additional costs for this office, Camo Pollution Control, and Ben Ciccone, Inc. are as follows: ~ Paggi, Martin & Del Bene: ~ Camo Pollution Control: ~ Ben Ciccone, Inc. ~ Corbin Excavating $ 3,687.00 $13,379.14 $25,404.60 $2,660.00 TOTAL COST $45,130.74 As you can see, the total for the additional work is in access of the $37,544.00 which was the contract amount to be paid to New Hope Pipe Liners for this project. Please be advised that additional work may have to be done to the section of sewer line between the downstream manhole and the section previously replaced. On Friday June 19th, we found that the liner in this area had separated from the walls of the existing pipe. Constance O. Smith Town Board - 10 - June 22, 1998 If you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact the office. Very truly yours, ~I!At&w); Charles R. Del Bene, Jr., P.E. CRD:law Enclosure cc: Hon. Vincent Bettina, Councilman Hon. Joseph Ruggiero, Councilman Hon. Joseph Paoloni, Councilman Hon. Robert Va/dati, Councilman Elaine Snowden A/bert P. Roberts, Esq. Michael Tremper Brandon Ciccone / ~ . "POlYCOAT /" SYSTEMS, INC. ) JOB SHEET NO. OF CALCULATED BY DATE CHECKED BY DATE ~_/~ /996 (l~~~~J~' 62-5"" 1tJ ~/~ 4/~ N T o788~ J AmI:.~~~' Rd .~k. . ~.It.~.' 4~ lJ~ rj/ t2U a .1 M~ rJ --r -? ~, ~~I", /' .f:-: -// /8U"" p tI/~~1 ~ '-""i' IV,!, P~fNt,~~ . d4-d~t~/.;L~~)rtk~;ff-~ ~.:t:b,&/tZf M ~ ~ ~ -i4 ~..~~ I ~ __~. ..+,,~ -"1.:t"!!:t~'" /.. An___-t;;"E'''''oj .~ f2uu-.~ ) ~ ,~~~tk-;::;::t.~-;i}:~~~ a~ : / ilyAb...:t-U ~ ~~ ~~. '~ ~~ja~~~~~L~~DAd'~ 't tL:4 ~. ; --'1-_.. 2,~~~)e~~j'k.r~~ ~)J.,/N:.,..~ I?' >1 a) ..J~ th c-ta L.,., c:1-o ~ ~~. . ~tk' (F~~~,~, wk tu-e~ ft 'p~ ~ P~/'/Uj~~/{,(./J . ~-1l~' frr--"'~ . I.'.J -I-I"/~' 'LIVH I~,t ~..tvN.; ~ ~ ~~ wa.v . A;y ~ ~ "'-~, .A&l~-~~~~G- ~~tN.~~' JUN-22-1998 13:53 . 914462121358 P.12!1/01 lEft CICCONE IHe, 203 DALEY ROAD POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK 12603 (914) 462-2800 FAX (914) 462.0358 J lme 22. 1998 Mr. 1. Paggi Paggi, Martin & DelBene 54-56 Main Street Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Faxed this date Re: Emergency Work Town ofWappin!$er Falls Dear Mr. Paggi: We estimate the costs for the above captioned project to be as follows: Lahar (w/20% markup) Equipment @ Blue Book Rates Matenals(Asphalt, Topsoil & Hay) $19,563.92 5,090.68 750.0Q Total Estimated bill.... $25.404.60 As discussed with Brandon Ciccone, this is a maximum estimate thnl today's work. Very truly yours, 0'/ to {:'i" . -.-," . I "'//i {.''j(.<(.<-(.,;. / .l.('(!'..."(,,f '''---..... Lenore A. Ciccone Secretary LAC/Ie An Equal Opportunity Employer TOTAL P.12l1 22-98 MON 15:11 ~ :" ,'~_;.... ~~,...,t.;.~"".Io4" ,', ,,,', l~' , .):<.l~~" ,.,..:1' ,.,. ~, "'.~'_""" '~.. ..................~...'. .~ r'.. .'. ,,~..,.,'..':?f~~~'., ; '" :,,,,.;.\,...-:..r.:~~"l:~....',.' l(,~ ,t ~"i"'-' 'J ..lor . ;:.? _' ,'f,'I'~.' "*",, ' , ~ ".,...,.., - ",':- ~.~ . '. ~:xi::...<" ,:,'_ '_~':.;,~- .:'-~J'j_.i/l' POLLUTION CONTROL. !NC. p, U~ L Operation of Water and Wastewater Treatmem SySWrlS 1910 ROUTE 376 WAPPINGEFlS FALLS, NY 12:i'30 (9'4) 4e~.7~10 Fax (914) 463.7305 - I M_E_M.O-R-A.N~D.U.M 1'0: constance O. Smith, Town f o Wappinger supervisor Michael P. Tremper, CAMO Pollu~ion control, Inc. June 22, 1998 f)t jJ I G0 FROM: RE: Sewer Main problems on All ~~gels Hill Road DATE: Emergency conditions which existed on A" Angel- Hill R d as a resul~ of the slip lining of ~he sewer ~;. ~ - .oa been wen documen~ed. . ,n ?roJect ha". Per your ~equest, attached is a.bil~ for services provided by cAMO P~llut'On COn7rol, InC. up t,l ene evening of June ~9, 199B. 5t1l1 outstand,ng are restora~ion se~/ices which need to be comple~ed, and any other problems which may have developed after that date. I have alSO subtracted ap?roximacelY 3S hours from this bill as these are normal hourS that woutd be worked by C~~O ?ollution control, Inc. during a project of this nature in the TOwn. The atcached bill is for labor and materials that were eX?ended ~o ~lleviace the emergencY conditiOn which existed from June 17, 1996 through June 19, 1996. ~s there are still uncertainties as to the ~lalitY of the :ower sec~ion of pipe that waS slep lined, there is a possibility of additional man hOUrs for this job. If yOU have q'.lestions or would like to diSCUSS this matter further, pleaSe contact me at (914) ,63-7310. JOseph E. paggi, TOwn of wappinger Engineer ~lbert RobertS, Esq., TOwn oi wappinger httorney com~cr: ~ taxes !ron - I !~ cc: 0" t#.~'t:dI:.Q1So\ __".., ""'~o .. ",,'l'i/>l{\ BQAR~ P.O. NO. TERMS r- I I DATE QUANITY ITEM I RATE AMOUNT i 6/17/98 28.5 TN 1" STONE 16.00 456.00 16/17/98 132 YDS. BRG 10.50 1,386.00 I 2 16/17/98 DR TRUCK 65.00 130.00 6/17/98 25 TN 3/8 STONE 16.00 400.00 16/22/98 16 YD S. TOPSOIL 18.00 288.00 i 7.25% 0.00 I , , , ! I I I i I I I ! I I I \ I I i I I ..---- ._- .. -.----- I I ~.... 'JwN"". ""--~--- "'::b7246 Corbbi ExcavatingtInc. 1 01 Diddell Road Wapp.Falls NY 12590 462..0877/fax 462-5256 I SILL_ TO TOWN OF WAPPINGERS MIDDLEBUSH RD. I WAPPINGER FALLS NY 12590 1 .---.J r -~-- ALL'ANGELS HILL RD. 2976704 P.01 I DATE r 6/22;98 Invoice INVO'c:E'1 ._. 4672 I ITotal $2,660.00 1