The contractor continues to work on the new water main from the Wisconsin 69 intersection going west. They are moving past 6th Avenue (Thursday) and should be approaching 5th Avenue by the end of the day (Friday) or early next week. The businesses in this area had a planned water shut-down which was supposed to happen (Thursday) but the old deteriorating water main broke (Wednesday) which required an emergency shut-down. The good news is that the work planned for (Thursday) was able to be completed while the water was off and today's planned shut-down was not needed. I want to thank the affected businesses for your patience during this unscheduled work.

Crews also unloaded storm sewer structures and piping earlier this week with this storm sewer installation starting (Wednesday) at 6th Avenue West going toward 4th Avenue. This crew will continue moving east toward 1st Avenue (Friday) and early next week.

Although water main and storm sewer are the two biggest items of work we also saw traffic control, erosion control, and other smaller items this last week. The contractor is still on schedule and making good progress when they can avoid the rain.

Once again I appreciate everybody's patience so far during construction. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns as we move forward.



- Ken Plowman is Senior Engineering Technician for Fehr Graham, which the city of Monroe hired for the 8th Street project.