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Council debates $583,000 engineering contract and nine‑year sewer compliance timeline
Summary
Edison council and residents pressed the administration about a $583,000 engineering contract for sewer inspection/design and whether required ACO/iBank rules force costly outside contracting rather than in‑house repairs. Officials said iBank/ACO rules require engineering, reporting and contractor oversight; the council asked for a detailed scope and timeline at the next meeting.
The Edison Municipal Council spent more than 25 minutes questioning the administration on April 22 about two linked water‑and‑sewer engineering contracts and how the township will meet obligations under a state consent order.
One council member challenged the need to pay an engineering firm to produce bid specifications and supervise work that he said township crews could partly perform, calling the repeated rounds of design fees wasteful. “We spent millions on engineering fees,” the council member said, arguing the town should either commit to in‑house repairs or consider…
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