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Frostburg updates residents on $780,000 CDBG-funded CSO project and next construction phases
Summary
City staff told the Frostburg City Council that $780,000 in CDBG funds are removing combined sewer/storm infrastructure in North Grant and Center Street Extended (Phases 8C and 9D), with both phases awarded to Braddock Construction and expected to finish this fall; bids for phases 10B and 10C were opened and await state and bond-counsel approvals.
City staff updated the Frostburg City Mayor and City Council on a Maryland Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) project intended to separate combined sewer and stormwater lines in parts of the city.
At a required second public hearing for the grant (award MD25CD26), Mr. Whitsley said the city has been awarded $780,000 through the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development to remove combined sewer and storm infrastructure and tie properties into separated systems. "The goal of this project is to remove combined sewer and storm infrastructure within those areas and tie into existing separated systems," he said.
Phase 8C (North Grant Street) received three construction bids and was awarded in October 2024 to Braddock Construction LLC for $370,130. Phase 9D (Center Street Extended) received four bids and was awarded in October 2024 to Braddock Construction LLC for $376,515. Mr. Whitsley told the council those two phases are on track to be completed this fall.
Staff said the city is actively working on Phase 10A in the area below Mountain Ridge, and that bids for Phases 10B and 10C have been opened; the presumed low bidders were Excavation Associates (10B) and Braddock Construction (10C). Those bid results have been forwarded to bond counsel and to the State of Maryland for required approvals because the projects are loan- and loan-forgiveness-funded. "Once we get bond counsel approval, and we get State of Maryland engineering approval, we then come back together and approve both of those bids and then we will do a bid award and a groundbreaking," Mr. Whitsley said, noting a likely winter shutdown with the bulk of work starting in spring 2026.
Council members pressed staff on scheduling to minimize disruption during the school year; Mr. Whitsley said both bid packages included restrictions to limit work during school pickup and drop-off times and that contractors were instructed to be mindful of schooling and busing restrictions.
The city posted the public hearing notice in the Cumberland Times-News and on the City of Frostburg website. The council recessed the CSO hearing after the presentation and public invitation to comment.
