A contractor using a remote-operated underwater camera was able to locate and video the community’s damaged wastewater outfall line on Sept. 11, with the borough hoping to put together a game plan this week to repair the damaged pipe.
The six- or seven-foot section of damaged 12-inch-diameter plastic pipe is in 77 feet of water, about 1,500 feet from shore, said Tom Wetor, the borough’s Public Works director.
Before a boat hooked the pipe when it was pulling up its anchor on Aug. 30, the outfall pipe carried flow from the wastewater treatment plant about 1,800 feet, discharging it into water 1...
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