Northampton County committee receives progress updates on parking deck, bridge and facility repairs

Northampton County’s Capital Projects and Operations Committee on Sept. 17 received status updates on a range of county infrastructure projects and short-term schedules for next steps, including a parking-lot repave already completed at the Criminal Administration Building and design work underway for a parking-deck replacement at the government center.

Mister Amili, a county staff member, said a contract to H and K Group for milling, repaving and restriping of the Criminal Administration Building parking lot and the juvenile justice center intake entrance "was completed over a 1 week period in May, and the project's been closed out." He added a small change order addressed subbase and subgrade pumping where trucks drove over the area.

Amili said Chem Aqua completed an automated boiler blowdown system for the Greysdale boiler house in July. "The system continuously monitors the chemistry of the water within the boilers to make sure that the solids content and the conductivity remain within the ideal operating range," he said, adding the automation replaces manual blowdowns and "will help to save…