George & Lynch
company · active 1937–
Also known as George Lynch and Company
Contractors who won Ocean City's post-PWA sewer extension. On 14 December 1937 they bid $6,921.15 to connect the sewers on the west side of Philadelphia Avenue to the new main, undercutting A. Stanley Mundy at $7,625.30 and M. J. McDermott at $7,373.50 — both of them builders of the PWA system itself — and took the contract. Work was to begin in the middle of January 1938.
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1937 · 1937-11-25
Ocean City ended 1937 by ordering ten sewers that still emptied into Sinepuxent Bay to be diverted into the new plant
'Ocean City Sewage System Completion Is Due Next Spring', the Messenger reported on 25 November 1937. The Mayor and Council had 'authorised the diversion of ten sewer lines, now emptying into Sinepuxent Bay, to the mains leading to the disposal plant. The project requires about 3,600 feet of six and eight-inch lateral sewer lines and will cost about $10,000', with a deadline of 1 June 1938. Bids for connecting all the sewers west of Philadelphia Avenue to the main sewer were opened on the evening of Tuesday 14 December and the work went to George & Lynch at $6,921.15, undercutting both the firms that had built the PWA system. Eight months after the treatment plant went into service, ten of the town's own outfalls were still discharging raw into the bay.
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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.
A. Stanley Mundy & Co., Inc.M. J. McDermottClark GardnerM. J. McDermottFrancis J. TownsendW. Preston LawsW. C. Pool
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1938 · 1938-03-14
The West Side sewers came in at $7,134.05 on the engineer's final measurement, and the contractor was paid off in instalments
Ocean City's engineer Clark Gardner delivered his final measurements on the West Side sewers to the council on 14 March 1938 - 'total of $7134.05 and Treasurer instructed to pay same'. Three weeks earlier, on 23 February, the secretary had been instructed to pay the contractors George & Lynch $3,000 'on acct of Sewer'. At the same March meeting the secretary was ordered to buy a small pump costing $45 'to use in repairing leaks', which is the first sign in the record of the new system needing maintenance rather than construction.
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1945 · 1945-12-26
Ocean City opened two bids for its post-war water main extension five days before the end of 1945 and threw them both out as too dear.
The council met on the evening of Friday 21 December to open bids on the water main extension, with Clark Gardner, Purnell and Messick of the engineers present, a Mr. McDermott representing George & Lynch, and two men representing a second contractor. Bids were opened from the two bidders and, after reading, held for consideration until Thursday 27 December, the certified checks with them. But on 26 December the council discussed them and decided the price was too high; on motion by John B. Lynch, seconded by R. Dolle, the bids were rejected and the certified checks returned to the bidders. The project had begun with a $200 survey agreement in December 1944 and had the State's acceptance and half its engineering paid; Ocean City entered 1946 with plans, an unadopted zoning ordinance and no water contract.
Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.
M. J. McDermottClark GardnerJohn B. LynchRudolph Dolle
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