Street work finishes this coming Week

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Crosswalk striping is the final stage of completing the rebuilt 12th Street through our commercial district.  Above, Dixie watches over the safety of Mitch who is prepping the street surface for the crosswalk white stripes.  The final work should be done this coming Monday. 

Note the very cool brick strip down the center of Harris Avenue.  That was all under a few inches of asphalt for the past few decades.  It is left over from the trolley tracks back in the 1920s. Stephanie Johnson, the President of the Old Fairhaven Asociation, requested the city replace the bricks to be visible with the street reconstruction - and Public Works agreed to do just that.  RAM Construction workers, with Mitch overseeing the work, did a beautiful job or taking them out without damaging them, building the concrete retaining strips and putting them all back down.  Fairhaven is a National Historic District, and this extra touch is very appreciated by all of us.  We thank Public Works and RAM Construction.

The actual project was to replace 100 year old sewer and water pipes under 12th Street, with work starting back in July.  It involved replacing the manholes - the entire underground concrete structures - and tearing up curbing.  As such, the street needed to be rebuilt, along with much curbing.  The final result is beautiful and should last us many decades.

Thanks are due to Mark C. Handzlik, Public Works Engineer for the project, for keeping all the Fairhaven businesses up to date on construction progress.  Thanks also to Todd Baker, the Public Works inspector who was here every day making sure all went correctly.  Thanks to RAM Construction, to owner Mike Hammes, and to his construction supervisor Mitch Pelzer for the beautiful end result.

I will be posting a full gallery of construction photos over by next few days.  A link will be placed here.

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