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Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Business
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Town saving $1 million on Locust and Hamm waterline
A waterline project in the Town of Lockport has come in $1 million under estimate, town engineer Robert Klavoon announced at a board work session. The board had accepted a bid of $4.9 million from Milherst Construction of Clarence Center for the Locust Street and Hamm Road waterline project that was set to begin this summer. Klavoon said the bid was $1 million below the project's estimate. The project will begin after July 4 due to a six-week turnaround time for an order of valves, Klavoon said. The work will start at the corner of Beattie Avenue and Locust Street and head west, he said. Wendel Engineers will send a letter to the 164 residences impacted by the project and will include a link where residents can find progress updates. Klavoon said the project will address lines that have had nearly 60 leaks since 2000, and it will improve water pressure and usability for fire service. 'The current line was installed in 1965,' Klavoon said at a November public information presentation. 'There have been many breaks along this line.' For Hamm and Locust, the new line will consist of a 10-inch PVC pipe, replacing a 6-inch cast iron pipe. Klavoon said the new pipe will be surrounded by loose rock to alleviate shifting ground and should last 100 years. Klavoon said this summer's work will concentrate on Locust Street. 'Hamm Road residents are not going to see construction this year,' he said. An above-ground supply line will be installed incrementally as the project advances, to ensure no disruption in water service. To avoid issues of the supply line freezing, construction will proceed from mid-March to mid-November. At the presentation last fall, Kyle Halford of Wendel Engineering said 4,700 feet of pipe will be replaced on the south side of Hamm Road between South Transit Road and Beattie Avenue and 7,850 feet along the south and west side of Locust Street from Beattie Avenue to Dorchester Road. Halford said the project will also replace hydrants and mainline valves, and transfer individual services to the new 10-inch waterline with new service boxes. Everything from the curb box to the main will be new material. We are not going on private property to upgrade their service. The temporary waterline will be above ground and will run across driveways with material on top of it forming a 'bump' that vehicles can drive over. It will take approximately four to six weeks as each section, Halford said.
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- General
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Porter allocates $350,000 for Swain Road pump station repairs
A deteriorating manhole for a Town of Porter pump station could lead to a public health emergency if it is not addressed. The Porter Town Board approved spending up to $350,000 on emergency repairs for the Swain Road pump station last month. It hired Buffalo-based Wendel Companies to design the needed improvements. After town officials conducted a site visit at the pump station with Wendel engineers on March 7, they determined the current arrangement of sewer main lines entering and exiting this manhole would cause gases inside to build up, leading to failure. Wendel engineer Robert Klavoon said the Swain Road pump station takes in all of the sewage from the western part of Porter and pumps it south towards the Lewiston Water Pollution Control Center. It also takes in sewage from another pump station near Old Fort Niagara, running along Third Street. 'The manhole that is just upstream of it is deteriorated,' Klavoon said, due to a build-up of hydrogen sulfide gas in the system. Town Supervisor Duffy Johnston and Youngstown DPW Superintendent Greg Quarantillo added that the force of water going through the system is creating a swirling effect that exacerbates the deterioration. Despite its location at the end of Swain Road in the Village of Youngstown, the pump station is Town of Porter property. Klavoon said the repair plan involves putting a new, precast manhole in its place; the new manhole is 15 feet deep and covered with an epoxy coating to prevent future deterioration. The old manhole will be excavated and bypass pumps will run for a week or two as the work occurs. Wendel is about 50% complete with design and hopes to get it out to bid in the next 30 days. The bidding process will take eight to 12 weeks to complete. It's anticipated that work will start in late summer and take around four weeks to complete.
