Working up a head of steam. Monday, April 16. Photo by Mary Walton
This guy was going at it hot and heavy on Broadway Monday morning.
Committeeman Eric Houghtaling tells us that the long-awaited drainage project “hit a snag” when workers discovered, during excavation, some old sewer lines that they hadn’t known were there, and which have to be removed.
Still, after years of bureaucratic delay, this much-needed improvement is at last getting underway. Its purpose is to lay new storm drainage pipes all the way from Lawrence Avenue eastward to Fletcher Lake. This is supposed to prevent the heavy flooding that happens periodically in the Broadway area.
Houghtaling says that despite the delay the Township still hopes to have the work finished by the beginning of summer. Sections of Broadway will be closed to traffic as the work proceeds.
— Charles Layton
I’ll find out what the issue is.
OK, you guys who live near this work site, I’m deputizing all of you as citizen reporters. Please keep an eye on the progress of the work and report your observations back here from time to time. We’ll get through this together.
Work was being done at 9am. The rest of the day ???
Must be a union job with a mandated all afternoon break.
They were out there very early, they are cutting the concrete pipes before they dig the road up
The photo was taken Monday morning, April 16.
Was that a file photo? I have driven Broadway twice today and seen nothing. It is 3:28 now, I just looked…NOTHING happening. If anybody is running a pool on a completion date, I want in.
Another fun fact: most of those old sewer lines are fire hardened clay, as well as some old water pipes.
That’s the cause of the frequent main breaks in OG.
Be prepared for traffic delays, diversions, road closures, piles of stone and dirt, and the mandatory citizen complaints.
It just wouldn’t be a construction project without it.