Water, Water, Everywhere…

February 1, 2002 by Administrator
Filed under: #11: February 2002 

Unfortunately for Riverbend, the spring of 2002 didn’t come soon enough. You may have noticed the unusual amount of water in the retention basin on the south side of our community in late November of2001. Investigation of the cause led researchers to 7 separate water line breaks in the community.

The association received notice from the North Brunswick Water company giving us 10 business days to make the repairs as located by the water department. After a day confirming that these leaks were the association’s and not individual homeowners, the work began to complete these leaks in the required time. Sambol, the association’s contractor worked for over 7 days to meet this deadline to avoid fines threatened to be assessed by the water company. With the help of management ensuring that the work progressed under all weather conditions, the deadline was met. However, this number of repairs were not anticipated and therefore not budgeted for. With the work complete, our association budget suffered in the amount of $30,000 that included excavation, replacement of the lines to copper, removal of the excavation debris, filling of the excavations with sand and clean blue- stone, tamping of the excavation, temporary repair to the blacktop because of the weather conditions and some landscape repair. There is still curbing repair to be done that will take place in the spring.

We have sent the specifications out to bid to replace all of the remaining lateral water lines in our community from plastic to copper. Once the bids are received, the Board is seeking the assistance of homeowners to interview potential contractors and provide their thoughts, ideas, and expertise to the possible consideration of the water line replacement project and re-paving planned for later this year. We are also investigating the possibility of obtaining a bank loan for the above projects. It appears that the time may have come for the community to seriously consider both projects a little sooner that we might have liked to have tackled them. We are working closely with our Professional Engineer on both projects. Once the quotes have been received, we will be calling a Special Meeting of the community to give you all of the facts related to the above, and to appoint & committee to work with us on accomplishing these major tasks.

The water main repairs may be planned for the spring of 2002 and parking court repaving would be scheduled for the fall. Spreading out the projects will allow for the necessary settlement of the ground prior to paving.

If you would like to volunteer, please contact Executive Property Management at 732-821-3224. Thank you!

February 2002 Newsletter Contents

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