SAUGUS – Town Manager Andrew Bisignani said engineering plans for the project to extend a sewer line from Lark Street approximately 230 feet up Eagle Road allowing the five homes on the street to tie into the town’s sewer system are in the works and it should be going out to bid shortly.Town Meeting members voted unanimously last month to fund the extension.By all accounts it is the ideal time to do the project. Eagle Road is one of about a dozen streets that still aren’t on town water and sewer. Last year when Lawn Care Pro received a special permit for its business on Lark Avenue, one of the conditions was it had to run a sewer line from Route 1 down Wren Street to Eagle Road.Initially it was thought that Eagle Road residents would foot the bill for continuing the line down their street but Town Meeting member Janet Leuci stepped in and lobbied otherwise.Leuci argued, successfully, that it was not fair for the residents to have to pay for an option everyone else in town got for free, the chance to tie into town sewerage.Leuci assured meeting members that all five property owners were ready to tie in as soon as the project was completed.Residents along Dale Street should also be getting relief from their sewer issues as well. Homeowners there have been waiting to have sewer lines installed on their street for more than a decade.In 1997 Town Meeting members voted 41-3 to approve $140,000 to install sewer lines on five streets. According to a 1998 sewer priority list, Dale Street was on the list and was the least expensive project, costing only $5,000. The street was never done.Town Meeting member Dennis Moschella took Dale Street residents’ fight to the annual spring Town Meeting where he won as well.Bisignani said that project has already been designed and gone out to bid.”The bids will be open Nov. 13,” he said.Since the funding was already approved, Bisignani said he expects work to begin on Dale Street fairly soon after the winning bid is awarded.
