Wednesday - November 18: The regular bi-weekly progress meeting for the first part of the Salineville Waterline project was held by the BWD Engineering Committee at the Water Treatment Plant. Present at the meeting was Board President Mike Ryan, Committee members Gene McGaffick & Tim O'Hara, Board member Bob Wines, Fiscal Officer Sara Crouch, District Manager Al DeAngelis, BWD Inspector Mark Allison, Dave Sugar of Sugar Excavating and Jon Blair of Dallis Dawson Assocs. Sugar is the contractor of the first phase of the project and the engineering is being handled by Dallis Dawson Assocs.
Sugar reported that Phase A is 63% complete with around 26,000 feet of pipe in the ground and 14,800 feet to go to complete the first phase. As of Wednesday they are 44 days into the project. They are averaging around 800 feet of waterline installation per day. They are within 3 - 4% of being on schedule.
Except for Crews Road all the lines on Osborne & Forbes is in the ground. They are currently working on Route 39 with two crews working toward each other. They have about one week left of being able to work with two crews. The Crews Road extension is waiting for EPA approval of the engineering plans. Once received Sugar will be able to work up costs for that portion.
Culverts are being replaced per regulations. Some landscapping is only partially completed with temporary seeding. Those areas will be readdressed. They are using heavy plastic pipe on the replacement culverts. In some places they are running into shells of old hot water heater tanks that were used for culverts.
One problem area they ran into under Route 39 is a concrete wall reinforced with rebar. It is unknown what it is or was. ODOT won't permit digging up the newly paved highway. Trying to bore through that is proving difficult and slowing them down.
Pressure testing is being done on Osborne Road. They are testing from valve to valve. Weather permitting paving of road cross overs will begin Wednesday.
Traffic control is now being done by off duty officers from WPD, Sheriff deputies and the Salineville PD.
Next progress meeting is scheduled for Wednesday at 10 A.M., December 2 at the Water Treatment Plant.
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