Thursday, May 8, 2008

After The Flood - The Saga Continues

I noticed this afternoon on the way home from work that they filled in the strut-breaking hole that had developed in this months old Water Department project.

It all began on February 7th when a pipe broke under that spot and Main Street was flooded. Twelve days later, I mentioned that it was still a hazard to navigation. And last month I felt the need to mention it again, since I tend to be going past this monument to municipal mending several times a day.

There had recently developed an erosion of the dirt filling that hole, deep enough so that if you got forced into it by traffic coming in the other direction, it'd feel like a tire fell off.

But, gee, they "fixed it" by putting some more dirt in today to level it off...

I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation as to why this has taken so long to finish up, but let's face it... this may be Main Street, but it's far enough out from the Hanover Theater that it shouldn't affect any of the spinoff spending.

1 comments:

4rilla said...

Bravo....

If this sinkhole was a half mile further down on Main Street it would have been done over by the BIC before being smoothed and graded out to a fine finish within 72 hours of the accident.

With 8 cops getting paid OT to watch the progress.