Resident Claims Sewer Construction Damaged Property In Parsippany

PARSIPPANY, NJ — A complaint has been made regarding the current construction of the township sewer line on Old Bloomfield Avenue, with residents claiming that crews have damaged their property in the process.

At the April 18 town council meeting, Peter Heiman, a resident and president of the Four Seasons at Troy Hills Condo Association, addressed the council about an issue he had previously raised with the township mayor.

According to Heiman, directly across the street from the residential housing development, the Four Seasons at Troy Hills is the township's sewer system improvement project off Old Bloomfield Avenue.

"We are concerned because there has been damage to our property. There has been damage to Old Bloomfield Avenue itself, which is basically completely destroyed," Heiman said.

There is a wastewater pump system located off Old Bloomfield Avenue that services the entire Lake Hiawatha area of Parsippany.

The construction, which began last year and is still not fully completed, has damaged several parts of the Four Seasons at Troy Hills community, residents said.

Four Seasons at Troy Hills is a Parsippany active adult community. The community, which was built in 2007, has 46 attached homes. These homes have three bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, and an attached two-car garage and range in size from 2,200 to 2,300 square feet.

Heiman alleges that the community's sidewalks, the front lawn in the common area, the pavers, and the sprinkler system all suffered damage as a result of the sewer line construction.

After raising concerns in October 2022, project managers assured Heiman that the property would be returned to its pre-construction state.

"They're almost finished with the pipework, and now they said within the next week or so they will start paving. They want to do an inspection with the town, but we would also like to be involved with the inspection. We want to make sure that all the damage to our property is taken care of," Heiman said.

Heiman said that he had brought up these same concerns in an email to the township on March 17, hoping to get the attention of Mayor James Barberio.

At the April 18 meeting, Barberio said that he had seen the email and spoken to the township's business administrator and the Parsippany sewer superintendent to discuss the matter further.

"It's important to us because it's important to the well-being of 46 homes paying almost $600,000 a year in taxes," Heiman said. "Picture yourself living in our community; how important would it be to you?"