Construction Info

Construction:
A Pre-Construction meeting was held yesterday, 3/25, with staff, the Contractor, utilities, Bus Companies, and other interested parties in attendance. Coordination between all of these entities is strong and we hope to keep these relationships just as strong throughout this construction process.

Starting next week, the week of March 29th, you will begin to see more mobilization. Heavy equipment will be arriving and staging, pipe and other miscellaneous construction materials will also be showing up.

Construction will start the week of April 5th. We anticipate that the roads in the Lower Bluff project zones will be removed that Monday. This will include Kensington, Cambridge (10 Block), Woodland Circle, and Fisk Place.

On Tuesday, will be start of installation of Storm sewer on Fisk and WaterMain on Kensington from North to South.

The overall schedule for the Lower Bluff appears to have a mid June completion.

The Upper Bluff project zones remain under a DNR imposed suspension until clearance is given. No schedule is available yet because of this halt.

Please stay in touch regarding these projects; we will share any information that we have regarding schedules or specific impacts to your property!!

"DO NOT REMOVE"

If you live in the street and utility construction zone for this summer, you may soon find a stick with blue paint on the top placed in your front yard that reads "DO NOT REMOVE".

These sticks have been placed by Village Crew who are tasked with locating the water shut off valve for every home in the construction zone. That stick indicates the location of your water shut off valve under the ground.

Please oblige the request on the stick and DO NOT REMOVE. If it is removed, Village Crew will have to come back out and relocate your valve and mark it again.
Thanks. Timk

Construction Sequence Change

During our pre-construction/design meetings with residents over the past several months, we had been talking about the construction sequence of our street and infrastructure project would likely begin in the upper Bluff area. The logic of our thinking being that the contractor could start inside the Village and work their way out. This allows heavy trucks not to be driving over our nice and newly paved roads.

Unfortunately, the regulatory arm of the Wisconsin DNR and the State of Wisconsin Historical Society, have impacted this sequence. Thanks to new regulations since we last completed our street projects in 2005, the village must now provide clearance of any cemetery or possible burial sites in a conflicted area. There are numerous locations in the Upper Bluff where these sites may be located. We are working ernestly through consultants to get these issues cleared. If you are following along with our StormWater project at the MBCC, the same conflict exists at that site.

This means that our street and infrastructure construction sequence will be flipped; the Lower Bluff (Kensington, Cambridge, Woodland Circle, Fisk Place) will be started first and the upper Bluff (Farwell, Magdeline, Summit, McBride, New Castle, Charing Cross) will be started after the lower Bluff AND, after we get the bureaucratic clearance from the DNR and Historical Society.

I will confirm more of this information on sequence after our Pre-Construction meeting next week. Timk

Let Construction Begin

Good Evening....Lots going on with Village Street and Infrastructure projects.

• Contracts are signed with A-1 Construction
• Pre-Construction Meeting for staff set for 3/25; construction schedule will be unveiled at this meeting and I will share with you once I have it
• Village Board meets on Final Financing package on 3/25
• Anticipate start of construction VERY soon.
• Stay tuned as I will be using this blog more frequently to pass on information.....