Sidewalk Work Continues

Economy Paving and its various sub-contractors were able to provide plenty of information and estimates today for the Village/MSP. I have listed them below. Since these updates concern different sections of Main Street I decided to block of each of the paragraphs and label them in different colored fonts. Hope this makes them easier to read.

According to the latest estimates from Economy Paving, sidewalk crews will begin to rip up the remaining sidewalk on the north side of East Main Street (running from the Simply Red Village Bistro to the edge of the Masonic Temple) either tomorrow (September 13th 2006) or Thursday September 14th 2006. The crews will fill this area with the gravel surface by the other stores in that block. If the weather holds out then utility teams can then take advantage of these ripped up sidewalks to install both the electrical and gas lines. The utility work on that side of the street will run from the Masonic Temple all the way to Ron Don's.

Other members of the sidewalk crew hope to finish the remaining patches of sidewalk on East Main Street (by the trimmed Red Bud Tree and at the Main St./Truman St. intersection) starting Thursday September 14th 2006. If these crews are able to form and pour the sidewalks on that day then all the sidewalk on the far end of East Main Street will be done!

Curbing sub-contractors also plan to come into the Village tomorrow. Curbing crews will begin their work on the south side of West Main Street (by the Post Office) and run into the Village's downtown. The curbing subcontractor for the project (Geneva Curb) believes it can have all the curbs on that side of the street done within two days of their start time.

The MSP understand that it looks like the project keeps removing trees from Main Street, but all those trees will be replanted! Crews removed the two trees from in front of the Napa auto parts store, which leaves only the pair of small shrubs in front of the Masonic Temple to be removed. Once again, all the trees removed by the project will be replanted and anyone interested can come to the Village/MSP Office and take a look at the plans. As mentioned in our previous blog posts concerning the street trees, by project's end there will be 54 new trees on Main Street. The new street trees represent a mix of species but include Japanese Elms (Ulmus japonica), Swamp White Oaks (Quercus bicolor), Crabapples, Red Maples (Acer rubrum), Black Gum (Nyssa sylvatica), and Hedge Maples (Acer campestre) trees. All the tree plantings have either an 80mm or 90mm caliper reading at chest height meaning that the trees are about 3 to 3.5 inches thick.

That is all for now. Keep turning to the blog for more information!