Cleanup at Former Glass Plant Starting Soon
Mon County OKs $126K contract for Ohio company
Morgantown Dominion Post
22 October 2009
By Tracy Eddy
Cleanup of the former Quality Glass site, on Van Voorhis Road, could
start by November.
At its Wednesday meeting, the Monongalia County Commission awarded a
$125,942 contract to Raze International Inc., of Shadyside, Ohio.
County Grant Coordinator Joanna Krafczyk said the County Commission
received three bids, and Raze got the contract because it submitted the
lowest bid and met all the advertised specifications.
It was the second time the County Commission bid out the cleanup for
the site of the former glass factory. It rejected four bids for the
project earlier this month because none met the advertised
specifications.
The county is using money from a $200,000 U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Brownfields Cleanup grant to pay for the project on top of
$40,000 in county money.
Using the Brownfields grant money, the county hired CTL Engineering to
come up with a plan for the best way to clean up the site. The firm was
paid $21,900 for the plan and will get $14,800 to oversee Raze
International's work.
The site is about 3 acres and parts of it have been contaminated with
asbestos, arsenic and lead.
The site is littered with debris, Krafczyk said, and the garbage will
be cleaned up. Some trees and all the contaminated soil will be
removed. She said the remaining soil will be capped with clay and
covered with more soil.
Krafczyk said she wasn't sure exactly when work would start, but she
believed it would be under way by November.
"This is something we want to get done before the winter," she said.
After the regular County Commission meeting, commissioners reconvened
as a Board of Canvassers and certified the results of the special
election on zoning.
County Clerk Carye Blaney said no one contacted her office with
questions about the election results or to ask for a recount after the
County Commission completed the canvass earlier this month.
Commissioners reviewed the results to make sure the numbers were the
same as were declared during the canvassing before voting to certify
the results.
In Cheat Neck, 449 voters voted against the proposed zoning law and 385
voted for it. In Cheat Lake, 507 voters voted against the proposal and
368 voted for it.
Blaney said that with the results certified, the county has no further
obligations for the special election.