We will have two work crews next week. One installing 16 inch Main on Davis Straits and one installing services on Main Street.
Crew 1 will be working on the segment of Davis Straits from Starbucks back to the AutoZone installing the 16 inch main. When we get to AutoZone we will have completed all of the big pipe installation.
We will be following the State Highway Permit for this work – maintaining one lane of traffic, paving at the end of each work day.
Crew 2 will be installing new water services, installing fire services, hydrants. With the 16 inch main installed, pressure tested, chlorinated and ready for use we will be moving existing services off the old main and on to the new main.
We will start at Locust Street and proceed eastward down Main Street. We will notify affected residences the day before that there will be about a 1 hour period that water service will be interrupted as we transfer over the service. Once you are on the new service we recommend that you flush the cold water line into your house – open the kitchen sink faucet – to flush out the line from the street to the building. As we proceed down Main Street many of the business have a fire service for the building’s sprinkler system. We will be switching those over too. This will take several hours. We will be notifying the fire department as we proceed. As the procedure has the potential to drain the sprinkler system, we recommend that owners assist by isolating the sprinkler system – closing the inside isolation valve.
The Main Street Work will start off with a detour of traffic to Palmer Ave followed later in the week by a detour of traffic between the Post Office and Peg Noonan Park to Katherine Lee Bates Road.
