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VILLAGE OF CAYUGA HEIGHTS
Engineer's Report
for November 10, 1969
I. Roads
After the completion of the paving and resurfacing of the roads for the summer and
early fall little has been done on the roads except for emergency patching of pot
holes. After the fall leaf cleanup is completed additional work will be done on
replacing culverts, cleaning road ditches and grading of shoulders.
Both Burleigh Drive and Simsbury Drive, newly constructed roads in the Williamsburg
Park area, are to be presented to the Board for acceptance as Village roads at the
November 10th meeting. Inspection of the corner of North Triphammer and Hanshaw
Road was made and the need for a guard rail on the Scott property corner was
discussed with the Police Chief. It was our opinion that a guard rail is not
needed at this time but that a curb might be advantageous.
II. Sidewalk
The completion of the sidewalk project on North Triphammer Road and Williamsburg
Park area will be finally completed with the spreading of topsoil and reseeding of
areas at the Ridley property where the grass seed did not take on the first planting
and with the spreading of topsoil and regrading around the headwall on the Quinn
and Hatfield properties. This is expected to be completed by November loth. It
should be brought to the attention of the Board that the realignment of the stream
and grading on the Hatfield property was done in connection with the construction
of a new headwall and extension of a culvert pipe under North Triphammer Road which
was necessary for the construction of the sidewalk. Because of the limits of right -
of -way it was necessary to build the headwall on the properties of Mr. Hatfield and
Mr. Quinn and with their cooperation it was agreed that regrading work of the stream
would be done in lieu of the right to use their land. This, therefore, does not
conflict with the general Village policy that it is the Village resident's responsi-
bility for streams that flow across their property.
III. Storm Water Drainage Problems
The Mayor, the Village Attorney and the Village Engineer met and inspected the land
of Professor Webster on East Upland Road and Mr. Richard Locke on Triphammer Road.
The culverts under East Upland Road and North Triphammer Road were also inspected.
It was agreed that the Village should place a second culvert under East Upland Road
slightly south of the present culvert in front of Professor Webster's property and
have this new culvert empty onto the land of Professor Webster in the southeast
corner of his property. At the same time that this culvert is placed a culvert under
Triphammer Road at the northwest corner of the Locke property is to be placed. This
new culvert will be of greater size and if it is possible be placed at a lower
elevation.
This is consistent with the general Village policy of providing adequate culverts
to carry streams under or across road right -of -ways but that the handling of the
•water flowing across private property in between the road right -of -ways is a
responsibility of the land owner.
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IV. New Village Hall
• Almost daily meetings have been held with the contractor going over items to be
completed before final acceptance will be made. Plans and specifications have been
submitted to the contractor and it is hoped that he will have a bid on an extra at
the November 10th meeting to provide a new concrete patio in the rear of the new
Village Hall and a new concrete sidewalk in the front of the Village Hall. The
grading work for these concrete pads is to be provided by the Village forces. The
grading in front of the Village Ball will require the removal of the 60' spruce
tree in front of the Village Hall and the cementing in of cellar windows in the
rear and in the front of the Village Hall.
V. Sewage Disposal Plant
Village Engineer attended a meeting in Albany October 16th at the office of the
New York State Department of Public Works attended by Mr. Walter Schnickenrider
and Dr. Dobbins of Teetor - Dobbins. Dr. Dobbins discussed with Mr. Scbnickenrider
the Village plans for adding phosphate removal treatment to the plans already
submitted to the New York State Department of Public Works in the form of an addendum
and that he planned to have these completed within the next month. This was agree-
able with the New York State Department of Public Works and they asked at that time
that included in his report would be a review of the progress made on the Village
infiltration problem and a schedule for further corrections if necessary.
After the completion of the negotiations with Mr. Liberman, Teetor - Dobbins were
notified that they could make arrangements to have the necessary test borings made
•on the Liberman property. In notifying Dr. Dobbins that the access to the land had
been cleared it was emphasized that notification to the Village should be made prior
to the moving in of the test boring company so that any damage to the Liberman
property could be held to a minimum. Dr. Dobbins stated that with the addition of
phosphate removal it might be necessary to take some additional test borings or to
relocate some of those originally specified.
In the discussion at the October 16th meeting it was brought out that it was
possible to include certain sewer interceptors as part of the construction costs
to be supported by State and Federal funds. A sewer interceptor is a major sewer
line that takes sewage from a large area and carries it to the sewer plant. Usually
interceptors are thought of as carrying sewage from different municipalities so that
treatment is possible at a single plant. in this light it was suggested to Teetor-
Dobbins by the Village Engineer that the sewer mains flowing under Route 13 into
the plant be reviewed to see if their capacity should be increased and if the cost
of their construction could be supported by State and Federal funds.
VI. Snow Removal
In anticipation of the coming snow removal season a new rubber base for the snow
plow and snow plow wing have been ordered. Reports on this new device are that it
will clean the roads of snow better, outwear a steel edged blade, and will not cause
damage to tops of sewer manholes which might stick up in the road surface slightly.
Our Bombardier Sidewalk snowplow was sent back to the dealer and from the dealer to
• the manufacturer for examination and correction if necessary of a fault that was
still covered under our manufacturer's warranty. We have heard from the dealer
that the plow will be returned in time for our first snow or they will provide us
with one if for some reason delay occurs at the manufacturer.
Arrangements have been made to truck in salt and the salt spreading truck has been
renovated for operation.
J. B. Rogers