In North Andover, sewage is designed to flow in three divisions: The East Side Drainage Area with its trunk sewer following Lake Cochichewick, Stevens Pond, and Cochichewick Brook to the Merrimack River; the West Side Drainage Area with two trunk sewers: one on Waverly Road, Mass Ave, Beverly Street and Sutton Street, the other along the Shawsheen River; and the Central Drainage Area bounded by Waverly Road, Middlesex Street, and Main Street to the Merrimack River by way of the Greater Lawrence Sewage Treatment Plant.
In Fiscal Year 2005, the following were installed as part of the North Andover Sewage Collection System: 6587 feet of 8-inch PVC pipe, and 35 manholes. The sewage collection system now consists of 84.0 miles of sewer main with 5299 house connections.
In FY05, Albanese D & S, Inc. of Dracut, MA completed the town’s Phase 4B Sewer project by installing new sewer lines in portions of Salem Street, Johnson Street, Appleton Street and Anne Road. The new sewer lines are within the Lake Cochichewick watershed, and will reduce the threat of contamination from septic systems as homes connect to the new lines.
The Town’s sewer consultant, Guertin Elkerton & Associates, started the design of the Town’s next sewer project, Phase 4C. New sewer lines are planned for two streets: Great Pond Road between Stevens Street and Fox Hill Road, and Dale Street from Appleton Street to house #400.
Funding was approved at the Town Meeting in the spring of 2005 for the Phase 4D Sewer Project. The project includes new sewer lines in a section of Bradford
Street near the water tower, Woodberry Lane, and a section of Sutton Hill Road. All of these areas are within the watershed of Lake Cochichewick.
Significant extension of the town’s sewer system also occurred in FY05 in a private subdivision known as Meetinghouse Comm
ons, off Dale Street near Smolak Farms. A sewer pump station was constructed to pump sewage from the new subdivision and the town’s Phase 3D Sewer project on Dale Street.
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