A few public works projects continue to move ahead in the City of Plymouth. Utility Superintendent Donnie Davidson gave the Board of Works an update last week.
He said the West Washington Street water main replacement is now complete. “We had a cast-iron water main in there that had a minimum of 12 breaks within a two-block area, so we chose to just replace that with new, better materials,” he said. “So that is complete. All the testing’s done. All the homes are connected to the new line.”
Davidson also told board members that materials have been delivered for the Boys and Girls Club sewer relocation project, and that construction was set to start by early this week. The sewer relocation is a necessary step before the organization is able to proceed with the replacement of much of its Plymouth facility with a new, larger one.
Also set to get underway this week is the Randolph Street water main extension, part of which will run under Centennial Park. Materials were scheduled to be delivered last week to a staging area at Randolph and Plymouth-Goshen Trail.
Davidson also reported that upgrades to the Wastewater Treatment Plant continue to move ahead. “The dewatering building – the footings and most of the walls have been installed,” he said. “They are going to be starting on our aeration basin. They’ll be dewatering, which will be performed this week, once we make a tie-in to a new effluent line. They hope to have the aeration basin and our final clarifier in place before bad weather. So it’s a pretty aggressive schedule, but the quicker they get it done, the more savings that we can realize.”
Meanwhile, Davidson said the demolition of the homes at 805 and 809 West Harrison Street is finished. “Next year, when funds become available, we intend to put a shallow retention area in there that will be essentially a dry-bottom retention area,” he said. “Flood waters will infiltrate into that area and then as soon as the sewers can carry it away, then that will recede and 95 percent of the time, it’ll be dry.” Now that the punch list items have been completed, the Board of works approved the payment of Jackson Demolition Services for the work.
