Yesterday's News and Rain Delay

Yesterday, August 28th 2006, some of the business/residences along the north side of East Main Street (i.e., Gimme! Coffee, Kinney Drugs, etc.) lost water around 8:40am. This unscheduled disruption was due to human error. Crews accidently broke a piece of the new water main while installing the feeder pipes from that main pipe to the rest of the locations along the street. Crews immediantely began to work on the break and were able to restore water in about an hour. As of yesterday afternoon, the rip had been patched and the pipe was back to its orginal condition.

There will be no construction work on Main Street today due to the heavy rains. According to the latest weather report, rain is supposed to clear up by tomorrow August 20th 2006. Water main superintendent Stu Doty and sidewalk superintendent John Jenison do not have a clear estimate of how the rains will affect the construction schedule.