PLYMOUTH — The cleanup at Northgate Mobile Home Park continues to move forward.
Monday night, the Plymouth Board of Public Works and Safety heard from Building Commissioner Dennis Manuwal about the ongoing cleanup, saying that progress had been made in the past two weeks, but “not at the speed I was looking for.”
The Board gave the new group owning the facility a two-week extension on the deadline to clean up sewer, electric, and landscaping issues on the property. Abraham Anderson, one of the new owners, was in attendance at the meeting online and agreed that there was still significant work to be done, but also felt a significant amount of work had been accomplished on the site.
As part of the sewer issues, 62 of the risers had been capped as ordered, with some still in the process of being completed.
Manuwall noted, however, that there were two lots that were emitting “grey water” (wastewater that comes from sources other than toilets). He also felt that there was still a lot of underground work to be done in the system.
Anderson said that he anticipated that portions of the sewer line would need to be replaced, and based on the report he received from crews hired to perform the work, he felt that it could be completed in the next two weeks.
He said workers have completed 23 electric service disconnects, and were bogged down on the removal of one burned home since the owner could not be found to obtain the title that was necessary to do the work.
Anderson asked the Board to allow him and a contractor, along with Manuwal, to inspect several other homes to see if they could be salvaged and resold. He told the board he plans to bring new homes, in the range of $70,000, to the park in the future to increase the amount of affordable housing available.
He asked the Board to continue to work with him on cleaning up the property.
Manuwal told the Board and Anderson that in the next two weeks, he would like to see two unlivable homes demolished, the entire sewer line repaired and a back corner lot on the property cleaned up of a large amount of debris.
The Board offered the extension and will re-address the matter in their next meeting on July 14.
