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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAnnual's Engineer's Report Feb 1972VILLAGE OF CAYUGA HEIGHTS ANNUAL REPORT OF THE VILLAGE ENGINEER FEBRUARY 1972 • JOHN B. ROGERS STREETS The usual annual surface treatment and repaving was carried out on the streets that needed it most throughout the Village. The headwalls on the large culvert under Cayuga Heights Road near the City line were installed, planting was completed and the road surface was leveled and repaved, completing this project. In a number of places throughout the Village road ditching was accomplished by the use of a rented excavating machine designed for this purpose. The result was very good and it is anticipated to do more such work in the coming spring and summer. The culvert that carries Remington Stream under North Sunset Drive is in bad need of repair. The repair or the replacement of this culvert will be a major cost to the Village. We hope to accomplish this work during the coming summer. The Village Engineer met with State Officials and other local highway officials on the Ithaca Area Transportation Study and Problems. Our greatest traffic problem, the traffic on North Triphammer Road and Pleasant Grove Road both connecting into Hanshaw Road was brought before this group. The construction of a traffic circle where North Triphammer Road meets Route 13 will further complicate the Village traffic problem as it will generate additional traffic from Route 13 and the Triphammer Shopping Plaza area. There were only ten road opening permits issued during the past year. This is the least number of permits issued during the past 10 or 15 years in the Village reflecting a decrease in construction in the Village. SNOW REMOVAL A very mild winter up until February 18th reduced snow removal problems to a minimum. A major storm over that weekend kept the public works crews working around the clock for a three day period. The two large Village truck plows, the Village grader, the Village 4 -wheel drive pickup truck equipped with a plow and the Village sidewalk full -track plow were all put to effective use. An efficient job was done by the public works crew in keeping the major roads open throughout the storm and opening up all other roads soon after. REFUSE COLLECTION During the past year a higher than expected cost for refuse collection has resulted from the removal of extensive elm wood cut by Village residents. The removal of diseased elm trees within the road right of way comes under the refuse collection heading and therefore further increased the cost of this operation for the past year. The Board of Trustees has approved the purchase of a new 20 cubic yard refuse collection packer and a cab and chassis. Bids will go out next month for this piece of equipment so that it will be available as soon as the ice and snow and salt are no longer on the Village roads. VILLAGE FIRE HALL ADDITIONS The Village work force carried out the site work grading, - paving and planting around the new expanded Village Fire Hall. • w Report of Engineer 0 VILLAGE HALL 0 Page 2 The public works crew carried out grading, planting and sidewalk construction around the Village Hall. By private contractor a vault has been constructed for fire protection of valuable Village papers in the basement of the Village Hall. Additional lighting was added in some of the offices of the Village Hall and additional lighting is under study for the main meeting hall. SEWER LINES 700 to 800 feet of 10 inch sewer line replaced an 8 inch sewer line through the Savage Farm. At the same time new higher manholes were installed where the line ran close to a stream. This new construction cut out considerable amount of infiltration into the lines and also provided greater capacity for the sewers in the northeast area leading down to the plant. An 8 inch sewer line at 107 Cayuga Heights Road replaced a very old 6 inch line. An additional 8 inch line was installed halfway between Midway Road and Triphammer Road replacing a line that was in poor condition. With the addition of these new sewer lines our infiltration recorded at the Sewage Treatment Plant has again been reduced. A continuing program of inspecting for infiltration will continue this spring. SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT Operational problems in the handling and recirculation of sludge necessitated a major expenditure to remove the cover of the digester, removal of the sludge in the digester and examination of the sludge lines. The cause of the problem was found, corrected and the plant was put back into proper operation within a week. During the entire operation the County Board of Health and State Officials were notified of our problem and our procedures for correcting it. The Village program for alterations and additions to our Sewage Disposal Plant is moving along on schedule. Our consulting engineers have submitted plans through all proper State and Federal authorities and approval was gained from these authorities. A contract for phase I, Site Preparation, was put out to bid. A low bid of a number of bidders was considerably under the engineer's cost estimate and was accepted by the Board of Trustees allowing work to start six months ahead of the deadline required by the State for commencing construction of our secondary treatment facilities at the Treatment Plant. Our consulting engineers, Teetor - Dobbins, are completing the plans for the rest of the work necessary to provide secondary and teritary treatment (phosphate removal). These plans are scheduled for completion by the middle of March and when they have been approved by the Board and cleared the proper authorities they will be put out to bid. Construction on this phase of the contract is expected to start early spring.