Day 66

Good Day today!!! Beautiful weather; good work completed!!

Woodland Circle:
The road reconstruction really made good progress on Woodland Circle today. With still a few hours left in their work day, they were getting close to completing that road base on the rest of Woodland.

Roxbury:
The new water main was done being cleaned/"cooked", so today they needed to blow out the line. No, there is not a new geyser on Roxbury at Lakewood; however, without having a fire hydrant to clean out the new line, they install a valve which is used to clean out that line. Once the line is run freely open for a long period of time, then the water samples can be taken and submitted. Most likely, we will not get those sample results back until late Friday or even Monday. This means that residential services will not be started until those results are completed.

Assuming that Woodland Circle road base is/was completed, they will be moving over to the Roxbury/Kensington intersection next to rebuild. After residential services are completed on Roxbury, they will move to rebuilding the road.

Also in the lower bluff, street clean up and preparation
continued for the concrete contractor to come and begin to set up frames for aprons and sidewalks. Look for them to be here possibly tomorrow.

Upper Bluff, New Castle at Lakewood Blvd;
As I ran into an upper bluff resident late afternoon today, we had a discussion which in short, revolved around the fact that we need additional signs just past the "Road Closed" signs that says..."Yes, we meant it" and/or, "Yes, this includes you too!!"

There was a hole in the road today at Lakewood and New Castle that we could have fit a bus inside. There was no way any vehicle was getting through that intersection; but, many people drove up to the intersection only to find that in fact, it was closed. That will happen; we simply don't have sign boards that can cover all possible messages. We just beg for your patience and do the best you can to find your way on alternate routes to avoid these locations.

The water main tie-in was started at Lakewood/New Castle and they will continue westbound on New Castle from there. Remember they can lay several hundred feet of water main per day if the conditions are good, so their work zone will move swiftly down New Castle.