By Ken Plowman
Fehr Graham Engineering & Environmental
I didn't get my weekly update sent last Friday but I wanted to get everybody caught up on the work that has been completed and what is planned for this upcoming week.
Dane County, who is the contractor installing the water main, had hoped to switch the water services to Dunkin' Donuts, Subway, McDonald's, and Dearth to the new main last week. The rainy weather postponed this work with it being rescheduled for this week. Although this contractor couldn't do the new water services they did make good progress installing water main between 1st Avenue and 71/2 Street. This section of main is now ready for testing early this week.
Dane County will also be working on sanitary clean-outs to businesses from Wisconsin 69 to 5th Avenue which have their sewer lateral going out to 8th Street. This work will require the contractor to visit each business and come inside to locate the sewer laterals. The contractor will find your clean-out inside and run a steel tape down the lateral so that they can locate the direction it comes out of your building and toward the main under 8th Street. Once they have the sewer lateral located they can dig down and install a clean-out outside your building.
Rock Road was on site this last week removing the base that was under the old road and replacing this with better material. They completed this work from 1st Avenue to 6th Avenue West with 6th Avenue West being the only intersection completed so far. They will be working on 4th Avenue West and 1st Avenue intersections over the next week with some road closures to be expected on these two side roads. The contractor will not close two consecutive side roads at any time.
Over the next couple of weeks you will continue to see water main, storm sewer, and aggregate placement being the main items of work.
I am hoping these weekly updates are keeping everybody informed about the project but we are still planning on holding a few public involvement meetings throughout construction also. We had one the week before work started and are looking to schedule another one in the next week. I will send another email as soon as the date and time are confirmed for this meeting.
Thanks again to everybody for your patience. Please continue to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
- Ken Plowman is Senior Engineering Technician for Fehr Graham, which the city of Monroe hired to oversee the 8th Street project.
Fehr Graham Engineering & Environmental
I didn't get my weekly update sent last Friday but I wanted to get everybody caught up on the work that has been completed and what is planned for this upcoming week.
Dane County, who is the contractor installing the water main, had hoped to switch the water services to Dunkin' Donuts, Subway, McDonald's, and Dearth to the new main last week. The rainy weather postponed this work with it being rescheduled for this week. Although this contractor couldn't do the new water services they did make good progress installing water main between 1st Avenue and 71/2 Street. This section of main is now ready for testing early this week.
Dane County will also be working on sanitary clean-outs to businesses from Wisconsin 69 to 5th Avenue which have their sewer lateral going out to 8th Street. This work will require the contractor to visit each business and come inside to locate the sewer laterals. The contractor will find your clean-out inside and run a steel tape down the lateral so that they can locate the direction it comes out of your building and toward the main under 8th Street. Once they have the sewer lateral located they can dig down and install a clean-out outside your building.
Rock Road was on site this last week removing the base that was under the old road and replacing this with better material. They completed this work from 1st Avenue to 6th Avenue West with 6th Avenue West being the only intersection completed so far. They will be working on 4th Avenue West and 1st Avenue intersections over the next week with some road closures to be expected on these two side roads. The contractor will not close two consecutive side roads at any time.
Over the next couple of weeks you will continue to see water main, storm sewer, and aggregate placement being the main items of work.
I am hoping these weekly updates are keeping everybody informed about the project but we are still planning on holding a few public involvement meetings throughout construction also. We had one the week before work started and are looking to schedule another one in the next week. I will send another email as soon as the date and time are confirmed for this meeting.
Thanks again to everybody for your patience. Please continue to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
- Ken Plowman is Senior Engineering Technician for Fehr Graham, which the city of Monroe hired to oversee the 8th Street project.