Day 18

The water main crew on Kensington appeared poised to reach the intersection with Oxford Place by days end. As of late afternoon, we did not expect them to break into the intersection simply because of the complications that intersections bring.

If you have some time when the crews are going past your home, take the opportunity to watch them at work. The heavy machine operators are uniquely skilled and capable of alot of finese work with such large equipment. The crew members excell at their duties as well. Imagine a water service line to a house, a gas line service to a house both cutting perpendicular to the path you want to take, yet, they dig around those obstructions with such precision to be laying a new water main within a 1/4 and 1/2 inch of the proper elevation. Nothing short of amazing.

In addition to the water main work on Kensington, the other crew today worked on laying water main in both directions off Kensington in Woodland Circle and into Cambridge. By late afternoon, that crew was back down at Fisk place continuing the storm sewer installation. That work was delayed while waiting for the proper 45-degree pipe to be built and delivered. But, it arrived this afternoon and they were able to continue with their storm sewer installation.

OK, now some good news for those of you on Fisk Place. The Road Crew is going to start on the rehabilitation of Fisk Place. Just so you understand, this does NOT mean pavement. However, they will be building the road as close to pavement ready as they can. Pavement will still not be coming until June.
Also coming next week for those of you in the 400 block of Kensington will be sewer main and individual residences being reinstated to the new water main.

The next segment of water main from the mid 300 block, up to Cambridge/Woodland Circle was also filled with water. They still need to get heir clean water tests yet on this section.

One more day of work upcoming. One crew left today. The other water main crew will break into Oxford Place tomorrow and then continue into the 200 block south of Oxford. This means that inbound traffic on Oxford will really have no place to go except to turn around and leave the Village and make entry at another point. For Friday, dont anticipate being able to enter the Village via Oxford.