GENEVA —
The craggy surface of Sherman Street will soon be smoothed out, Geneva City Manger Jim Pearson said, but the project won’t be without a few logistical headaches.
Geneva Middle School is located on the north end of Sherman Street, as is the Geneva Public Library. Workers will have to pave around the school’s busing schedule, Pearson said.
“We have a plan to deal with traffic issues such as buses and parents driving their children to school. (Construction company) Specialized Construction assures us that they will maintain traffic during the construction,” he said.
Work on the base of the road began this week, Pearson said.
Pearson said the re-paving from the Route 84 traffic light north to the railroad tracks at Walnut Street will cost $350,000.
“And that only includes some base repairs,” he said. “If we had to pave all of Sherman Street from the city’s corporate limits to Walnut Street the cost would be $1 million.”
Pearson said the city budget for paving has had to stretch to cover street cuts for utility repairs,
“The number of utility repairs this summer has been unusually high,” he said, “and unfortunately, many of the repairs were done to recently paved roads.”
A street cut is an intentional cut into the surface of a roadway to repair an underground utility line.
Pearson said there were an “unusually high amount” of water breaks in August.
“On Depot Street behind the Western County Court, a water line is experiencing lateral splits,” he said. “There is no commonality to the breaks.”
Pearson said many of the city’s water lines are made of six-inch cast lined with cement and were installed in the 1930’s, 40’s, and 50’s.
“Until those water lines are replaced, the city will continue to experience breaks,” he said.
Pearson said the city street crew is taking “extra effort” to properly patch the street cuts in preparation for the winter weather.
“We are taking extra effort to make sure the patches are good and that they are sealed for winter,” he said.
Chip and seal coating on Maple Lane, Hillside Circle and Morrison, Garfield, Burr, Richard, Fairview and Third streets and Holden Court are complete, Pearson said.
“The roads all look good and I have not received any complaints from residents about the chip and seal process,” he said.
The city’s leaf pickup machines are in bad state of repair after a fall season of especially hard work last year, Pearson said.
“We are still working on the repairs,” he said. “We will advertise when the leaf pickups will begin, hopefully over the next several weeks.”
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