Essentially we don't have a spokes person, someone directly involved in the project available to answer questions and provide guidance.
On Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 7:55 AM Edward Young via Lincoln < [email protected]> wrote: > A progress report from the Town about the water main project would be very > helpful at this point, including an estimate for the completion date for > the project. > > Hopefully, before school starts. > > This is because a number of things seem to have changed from the Town's > initial projections in regard to timeframe and road closures. > > Members of the crew tell me that they typically lay about 6 sections of 22 > foot pipe per 8 hour shift, or 132 feet per day. From Reservoir Road to the > flower pot is approximately half a mile, and another half mile to Ballfield > Road, for a total of about 5,200 running feet. Divided by 132 feet per > shift, that’s about 40 working days, or 8 weeks, taking the pipe-laying > phase of the project to late September, after which they’ll need to hook > all the houses up to finish the job. > > The workers indicate that the project was significantly delayed by the > unexpected complexity of Lincoln’s antiquated piping system, causing them > to have to prepare far more temporary lines than would be expected before > they could proceed with the replacement pipes. > > The foregoing is based entirely on casual conversations with those workers > whom I’ve run into out in the road itself, not the engineers or top brass > who may know better than they what the status of the project is. > > The workers also indicate that the original expectation that one-lane road > closures would be common, and complete closures rare, has been superseded > by a determination by the Lincoln Police that single lane closures are too > dangerous for the workers under OSHA, at least until the project reaches > the flower pot, due to the narrowness of Bedford Road as compared with > Lincoln Road. > > As I said, the foregoing is just what the guys in the trenches have told > me; it would be nice to have an official progress report. > > As well as an explanation why the configuration of the existing piping > wasn’t initially understood and why it was initially thought that one lane > closures would be safe. After all, the width of the road hasn’t changed. > > Respectfully, > > Ned Young > 41Bedford Road > (thankfully not in the construction area ourselves) > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to [email protected]. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/ > . > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. > >
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