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