The Lower Towamensing Township supervisors awarded a road paving contract Tuesday night during their regular meeting.

New Enterprise Stone and Lime Inc. in Nazareth had the lowest bid at $384,146.90 and was awarded the project. Five companies submitted bids.

The second lowest bid was Lehigh Asphalt Paving and Construction in Tamaqua at $386,595.60. The other three companies were Livengood Excavators Inc. in Walnutport, H&K Group in Skippack, and Heidelberg Materials.

The roads that will be worked on include:

• Boyer Farm Road between Hemlock Street and Forest Inn;

• Hemlock Street from Cherry Hill Road to Spring; the work will be an overlay;

• Fireline Road from Cherry Hill Road to the township line, and;

• Forest Drive from Spruce Road to Balsam Way.

Brent Green, the chairman of the supervisors, said, “As a note, this is under the estimated cost of the project by $10,000.”

Resident Angela Farrell asked who would be going out to check on the roads as the work is being done.

Green said the road master will go out, but he could check on it as well. The township has had problems with the work not being done completely or improperly in the past.

“I don’t mind going out when they pave,” Green said.

Debris problem

The supervisors also discussed the continued issue on Golf Road after a resident asked about the situation. Debris has been strewed across the closed section of Golf Road, nearly blocking it to even pedestrians.

Green said the solicitor sent a letter to Blue Shamrock Golf Club and a resident with property along Golf Road telling them to remove the debris.

“We have not heard a response from them that I am aware of,” he said.

James Ord, the chairman of the Lower Towamensing Township Zoning Hearing Board who was attending the meeting as a resident, said, “The enigma is this, the country club is using the road themselves but they’re denying access to others. You closed it to vehicular traffic, I get that, but pedestrian traffic typically uses that and I see no reason why they can’t continue to do so.”

Green said both property owners along the road are blocking the township road with things like rocks, tree branches, leaves and pile of grass.

“This has turned into a neighborly dispute between two property owners who both own property on Golf Road, and the township is in the middle of it. That’s what it comes down to,” Green said.

Green said both of them want access to the road, and really don’t want the public to have access to it.

“But ultimately, they have no more liability than if somebody was walking along Fireline Road,” he said.

Ord said it feels “pretty sketchy, you know, crawling through the brush piles.”

“You shouldn’t have to crawl through a brush pile on a township road,” Green said.

The supervisors agreed that if the property owners don’t clean up the road and stop dumping on it, then they’ll proceed with legal action.