A. Stanley Mundy & Co., Inc.

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1. 1936 · 1936-06-09

   The sewer contractor got thirty extra days and a waiver of damages because January and February 1936 were too cold to dig

   A typed resolution pasted into the minute book records that on 9 June 1936, 'by reason of the unusally arduous winter and inclement weather prevailing during the past months of January and February, the contractor, A. Stanley Mundy & Co., Inc., under Contract No. 1, dated January 15, 1936, P. W. A. Docket No. Md. 1065-R for installing Intercepting Sewers and appurtenances at Ocean City, Maryland, was prevented from proceeding with said contract before March first' and would therefore be prevented from finishing within the five calendar months the contract allowed, 'to-wit, June 15th'. The Mayor and City Council unanimously extended the time by thirty days, waived the liquidated damages, and resolved that the P.W. Administrator be advised. It is signed W. Thomas Elliott, Mayor, and certified by J. M. Mumford as Clerk.

   Federal Emergency Administration of Public WorksW. Thomas ElliottJohn M. Mumford

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2. 1936 · 1936-06-26

   Five contractors bid on Ocean City's sewage disposal plant in June 1936, from $74,510 to $98,902

   Bids on the disposal plant - Contract No. 2 - were opened at a council meeting on Friday 26 June 1936: Virginia Engineering Co. Inc. of Newport News, Va., $98,902.58; George & Lynch of Dover, Del., $79,270.50; M. J. McDermott of Georgetown, Del., $74,510.48; A. Stanley Mundy Co. Inc. of Woodbridge, N.J., $81,593.38; and B. J. Contracting Co. of New York City, $88,247.00. The council tabulated them, held its decision on the award 'until future date' and returned the certified check of the New York bidder. The lowest bid was more than the entire federal grant. Between that meeting and the award, the clerk noted, Mayor Elliott, Edmond H. Johnson and the engineer Clark Gardner went to Baltimore to consult the Board of Health on the best plan to follow, and a request went to Washington for an additional grant of $6,750, forty-five per cent of $15,000. — 1937 FULL PASS, 2026-08-11 [confirmed]: M. J. McDermott of Georgetown, Delaware, the low bidder of 26 June 1936 at $74,510.48, did get the contract. He started work on 26 August 1936 under Contract No. 2 of PWA Docket Md. 1065-R and the Mayor and City Council accepted the completed plant on 8 June 1937. This closes an open research request from the 1936 pass. Note that the final construction cost is still NOT established: $74,510.48 is his bid, and the 1937 press printed three different totals for the whole system.

   Maryland State Board of HealthClark GardnerW. Thomas Elliott

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3. 1936 · 1936-12-29

   Ocean City's first municipal sewer was dug in 1936 and was still only seventy per cent complete at the end of it

   The contract A. Stanley Mundy & Co. of Woodbridge, N.J. won on the Friday after Christmas 1935 was signed as Contract No. 1 on 15 January 1936 under P.W.A. Docket No. Md. 1065-R. Preliminary work began in the week of 12 March and the contractors started laying pipe along North Philadelphia Avenue between North First and North Third Streets on Saturday 28 March. By late May the council was fielding complaints about sand thrown up across Philadelphia Avenue at the street intersections and proposing to wet it down and roll it. Work stopped in late July while more federal money was sought, resumed in August, and the treatment plant on North First Street west of Philadelphia Avenue was under construction by mid-September, with Major Anderson supervising. On 29 December the council discussed its finances and ordered the attorney 'to prepare paper to get balance due on Grant on Sewer as it was 70% complete.' The Messenger had reported in August that the plant and force mains were expected to be in operation after 1 January. The system as designed was an interceptor of 8,000 lineal feet of cast-iron pipe, a treatment plant of reinforced concrete on piling with a brick superstructure designed for a maximum flow of three million gallons a day, and 3,100 lineal feet of pipe discharging into the Inlet at the south end of Philadelphia Avenue. — 1937 FULL PASS, 2026-08-11 [confirmed]: It was finished in 1937. The intercepting sewers by A. Stanley Mundy & Co. were accepted by the Mayor and City Council on 30 April 1937 and the sewage treatment plant, force mains and appurtenances by M. J. McDermott of Georgetown, Delaware on 8 June 1937, both under PWA Docket Md. 1065-R. Operation began in the week of 15 April 1937, the works were physically handed over on about 18 May, and Frank Tyre was appointed the first plant superintendent.

   The town that voted 104 to 1 for a sewer in November 1935 did not get one in 1936. It got seven-tenths of one - and a treatment plant that would put Ocean City's sewage into the inlet the town had spent sixty years asking for.

   Ocean City Inlet & JettyFederal Emergency Administration of Public WorksClark Gardner

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4. 1937 · 1937-04-15

   Ocean City's sewage plant went into operation in April 1937 with the first under-water sewage grinders in Maryland, and put the town's effluent into its own inlet

   'Operation of the new PWA sewerage system and treatment plant at Ocean City will begin this week,' the consulting engineer Clark Gardner told the Messenger on 15 April 1937. The description is the fullest the campaign has of what was actually built. 'The intercepting sewer, constructed along Philadelphia avenue, consists of 7,750 lineal feet of cast iron pipe, varying in diameter from 12 to 20 ins., laid below mean high water of the Sinepuxent Bay.' The treatment plant stood 'on St. Louis Avenue between North First and North Second Sts.' and was 'capable of handling a maximum of 3,000,000 gallons of sewage a day.' 'Among the outstanding devices employed in the new plant are the units for grinding the raw sewage under water. After grinding the sewage is chlorinated in wet wells, and is discharged through a force main to the inlet. The under-water grinding devices, Gardner said, are the first to be used in Maryland.' The engineering problems he named were 'the extreme variation in sewage flow because of the large differential in summer and winter population, and ... the water pressure at the outlet, 16 feet below the level of the bay.' The works were 'formally turned over to the Mayor and Council on Tuesday of this week', the Messenger reported on 20 May, and 'Mr. Frank Tyre has been appointed Plant Superintendent by the Mayor and Council.' The council's own Resolutions of Acceptance followed on 30 April for the sewers and 8 June for the plant.

   The inlet the 1933 hurricane opened had been the fishing fleet's harbour mouth for four years. From April 1937 it was also the town's outfall.

   Ocean City Inlet & JettyFederal Emergency Administration of Public WorksM. J. McDermottClark GardnerFrank TyreW. Thomas Elliott

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5. 1937 · 1937-04-30

   Ocean City accepted its intercepting sewers from A. Stanley Mundy & Co. on 30 April 1937

   At a meeting in the Municipal Building on 30 April 1937 the Mayor and City Council unanimously adopted a Resolution of Acceptance declaring that they had 'accepted as satisfactory - subject to prior acceptance by the Consulting Engineer - a system of Intercepting Sewers and Appurtenances recently constructed at Ocean City, Maryland, by the A. Stanley Mundy Company, Inc., of Woodbridge, New Jersey, under Contract No. 1, PWA Docket No. Md.1065-R', and directed the Clerk to notify the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. W. H. Scott moved it, Dr. F. J. Townsend seconded, and the motion carried. The council had signed Mundy's contract on 27 December 1935 and had given him a thirty-day extension in 1936 for 'the unusually arduous winter'; sixteen months later the pipe was in the ground and signed off.

   Federal Emergency Administration of Public WorksW. Thomas ElliottWilliam H. ScottFrancis J. TownsendJohn M. MumfordClark Gardner

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6. 1937 · 1937-12-14

   Ocean City ended 1937 by buying a second sewer: $6,921.15 to put an eight-inch line down the west side of Philadelphia Avenue

   The PWA system had served the ocean side. On 9 November the secretary was ordered to ask the engineer Clark Gardner when he could meet the council 'and decide on what could be done on Connecting sewer on west side of Phila. ave'. On 16 November Gardner and Dallas went over the plans and it was decided to ask for bids 'for Connecting up with new Sewer 8" leaving present lines for Storm Drains'. On 14 December the bids were opened in front of the three contractors themselves - 'Mr. McDermott of Georgetown Del., Munday of Bridgeton N.J., Clark Gardner, Dallas of Salisbury' were all present - and read: A. Stanley Mundy $7,625.30, M. J. McDermott $7,373.50, George & Lynch $6,921.15, each with a certified cheque for $500. Dr. Townsend moved and Laws seconded, and the contract went to George & Lynch. The same evening the council released W. C. Pool from a sewer easement taken on his land in November 1929, 'as the City has no use for a sewer crossing any of the property on West Side of Phila ave', and told Mrs. Kuhit it would put in the necessary sewer on 8th Street when she was ready to build.

   George & LynchM. J. McDermottClark GardnerM. J. McDermottFrancis J. TownsendW. Preston LawsW. C. Pool

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