Thomson Township supervisors approve needed, costly sewer work

Updating infrastructure can be costly. That's a lesson Thomson Township officials learned earlier this month when they got bids ranging from $303,000 to over $440,000 for a Randall Avenue sewer extension project. The bids were close to double what the township expected.

After delaying the decision earlier this month to explore the idea of staff doing the work instead, Thomson Township supervisors took the plunge at their meeting Nov. 21, accepting the low bid.

"Three hundred thousand is a lot to service four homes," said supervisor Tony Compo at the Nov. 7 meeting.

Township board chair Ruth Ja...