County OKs $337K in Ida bridge contracts

NORRISTOWN » Efforts to clean up the damage sustained from the remnants of Hurricane Ida have carried on nearly five months after the storm hit the area.

The Montgomery County commissioners recently authorized more than $337,000 in contracts assisting the Montgomery County Department of Assets and Infrastructure, with an emphasis on bridges.

Montgomery County’s elected officials had issued an emergency disaster declaration in the days following the Sept. 1, 2021, storm. It has since been renewed several times.

A nearly $263,208 agreement with Loftus Construction Inc., of Cinnaminson, N.J., was allocated for “emergency repairs to bridges damaged during Hurricane Ida.”

They included the following bridges: West Moreland Avenue over Pennypack Creek in Hatboro; Pawlings Road over Schuylkill River, in Lower Providence Township; Arcola Road over Skippack Creek, in Lower and Upper Providence townships; and Old Gulph Road over Mill Creek, in Lower Merion Township;

A roughly $74,086 agreement with Pennoni Associates Inc., of Philadelphia, covered engineering services to the following impacted bridges in Montgomery County.

Locations include Rawlings Road over Schuylkill River in Lower Providence Township; Arcola Road over Skippack Creek, in Lower Providence Township; Germantown Pike over Skippack Creek, in Lower Providence Township; Arcola Road over Skippack Creek, in Lower and Upper Providence townships; West Moreland Avenue, over Pennypack Creek, in Hatboro; Old Gulph Road, over Mill Creek, in Lower Merion Township; Garges Road, over East Perkiomen Creek Bridge, in Skippack Township; and South Broad Street culvert in Upper Gwynedd Township.

Route 724in North Coventry is closed between Catfish Lane and Sheep Hill Road due to a bridge damaged by Hurricane Ida flooding.