Days 52-58

Good Evening,

As I wrote on Tuesday of last week, I had the good fortune of chaperoning my son's 6th grade, 3 day field trip at the end of last week. What a great trip to have been a part of!! Though away, I was still connected via contemporary methods of communication.....ie. The BlackBerry!!

I got an email in the early afternoon of last Thursday that the Village had received from the DNR, our Chapter 30 permit for the Storm Water work at the Beach. I immediately notified Tom back in the Village; unfortunately, the Contractor was unable to complete that work as they were already scheduled to be gone on Friday for a long holiday weekend.

That means that early today (Monday), work was started and by mid afternoon, the balance of the storm work was completed at the Beach outfall!!!

Elsewhere in the Village today, there were two pipe crews working on residential water services on Woodland Circle (this means the water tested clean and homes are being switched over to the new water main).

We learned today again that not every residential water service has minimal intrusion. Another home today had a HUGE hole in their front yard. A similar problem came up on a home on Kensington Drive. In those particular circumstances, the Village, via the Contractor, is attempting to save a substantial tree. This requires additional excavation around a healthy tree speciman to save the root structure, and the life of that tree. The argument is one of grass vs. tree. I think this is an easy decision; however, people dont always agree.

There was some street construction prep work completed around the entire lower bluff today. This is a good sign as we prepare or asphalt in the next couple weeks.

UPPER BLUFF
Though we had positioned ourself to move a pipe crew to the upper bluff starting this week. There is a significant amount of work left to complete in the lower bluff, with another 6-8 water services on Woodland, a bit more of storm work on that same street AND, one block of Roxbury needs to be completed yet with water and, some sanitary sewer work. We also may be looking at a few problems with weather for this week so we are trying to factor those variables into our planning. We also may be looking at a reduced construction presence as a crew or two may have to pull out of Village. More details must be reviewed yet this week.

Please stay tuned as we learn more information as the week goes along. Regards.