Although it’s a few months away, the Lycoming County Water and Sewer Authority (LCWSA) has set their holiday schedule for the times around Christmas and the first day of the new year.

Because both Christmas and New Year’s Day are on Wednesdays the public office will be closed from Dec. 24 through Jan. 1, except by appointment.

In other actions, the board approved a fourth amendment to the sewer billing and delinquent collections agreement between LCWSA and Duboistown Borough

“For us this will be for years 11, 12, and 13,” said Christine Weigle, executive director.

The annual cost will be $21,600 for each of the three years of the agreement.

“It’s a three-year fixed price so that both Duboistown and us have budget certainty,” Weigle said.

The authority handles all billing and collection sewer services for borough customers including the billing of all accounts, the collection of monies from the customers, the remitting of cusomer payments to the borough and the collection of accounts receivables.

The amendment also updates the current customer base, as of Sept. 1 to 564.

The board approved a resolution for the authorizing agent for the statewide local share account grant application. The resolution authorizes Weigle and board secretary Donald Konkle Jr. as signatories for the grant application. Deadline for submitting the application is Nov. 30.

The grant is in the amount of $231,000 for the administration safety, security and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) improvements that the authority has been working on scoping with the architect, according to Olivia Lopatofsky, project engineer for the authority.

“We got an estimate for construction, around $220,000. This is with contingency added,” Lopatofsky said.

She also reported to the board that the authority had submitted a service line inventory to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) identifying lead service lines for the Limestone village water and Hall’s Station systems.

“Right now we’re just kind of on a holding pattern. The next step will be customer identification. We’re going to have to notify all customers with unknown lead status service lines by Nov. 15,” she said.

The notification will be “here’s the status, it’s unknown, and here’s the potential issues with having a lead service line,” Lopatofsky said.

Noting that the board will provide more information on the issue at next month’s meeting, Weigle said that the DEP regulation requires that the authority work through lead service line inventories annually. A two or three-point verification is part of the methodology that DEP requires for verification.

“As we prepare for a meter change-out program, that would be a point in time that we would be in somebody’s house, looking at their meter, looking at their service line,” Weigle said.

“We’ll start developing a plan to take the number of unknown services each year, make that lower and lower and that will be the requirement for DEP to come up with a plan to eliminate any lead service lines. But right now, it’s just an inventory period that we’re going through,” Weigle said.

Weigle also shared with the board that the authority will donate $3,550 to a memorial fund for Maisie Bitler, whose father Zach has been an employee at LCWSA since 2010. The donation includes contributions from authority employees and a matching amount from the authority’s board.

On announcing the donation, Weigle said that Maisie, 17, who perished in a plane crash in July, had been part of the authority’s family since she was a child.

The next meeting of the board will be at 6 p.m. Nov. 6 at the LCWSA Board Room at the Administrative Office, 380 Old Cement Road, Montoursville.