Saturday, March 01, 2008
More Treat Ave street work?
In the last few days, a lot of underground survey marks have popped up on Treat from Precita to the South end of Treat. Tonight, we encountered some PG&E employees marking/surveying gas lines, and asked them if they knew what was up.
``The city is going to do construction to fix the pot holes.`` Was the response. ``Not us, the City``.
You may remember, between October 2003 and Feb 2004, the city replaced the sewer line going down Treat ave. They opened up a 2 foot trench in the middle of the street, replaced the sewer lines, repaved the street and also replaced the curbs on the street.
Apparently, they didn't do something right when they closed up the trench in the middle of the street, because it has been sinking. There are numerous potholes, including the rather large one that appeared in January 2008, so hopefully the construction will be done properly this time.
However, we might be in for another 2 months of Treat being under construction again, like it was in last 2003.
(Here are some pictures from the 2003/2004 sewer replacement on Treat)
The photo below shows a cross-section of the street after it was cut through. Notice the old cobblestones/ bricks under the asphalt.
The new sewer line. They would rip out the old pipes, and immediately replace it with the new pipes.
The new pipes were laid in a bed of gravel, our understanding is because that gives the pipes a bit of room to move during an earthquake.
If you know anything more about this construction, post a comment. Calls to 311 were directed to a voicemail number for DPW, who didn't return our call.
``The city is going to do construction to fix the pot holes.`` Was the response. ``Not us, the City``.
You may remember, between October 2003 and Feb 2004, the city replaced the sewer line going down Treat ave. They opened up a 2 foot trench in the middle of the street, replaced the sewer lines, repaved the street and also replaced the curbs on the street.
Apparently, they didn't do something right when they closed up the trench in the middle of the street, because it has been sinking. There are numerous potholes, including the rather large one that appeared in January 2008, so hopefully the construction will be done properly this time.
However, we might be in for another 2 months of Treat being under construction again, like it was in last 2003.
(Here are some pictures from the 2003/2004 sewer replacement on Treat)
The photo below shows a cross-section of the street after it was cut through. Notice the old cobblestones/ bricks under the asphalt.
The new sewer line. They would rip out the old pipes, and immediately replace it with the new pipes.
The new pipes were laid in a bed of gravel, our understanding is because that gives the pipes a bit of room to move during an earthquake.
If you know anything more about this construction, post a comment. Calls to 311 were directed to a voicemail number for DPW, who didn't return our call.
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