Contractors fill in large trenches created by recent water line replacement between 12th and 14th streets in Ford City. Pavers will complete the project next week by laying new asphalt from side to side.
Heavy equipment, trucks filled with asphalt, and detours are planned as Kittanning and Ford City boroughs wraps up their paving projects.
In Ford City, pavers are filling in the trenches between 12th and 14th Streets on Third Avenue yesterday and today. The trenches were created when the supply and distribution water lines were replaced last month. Kukurin contractors, the same company that did work at the new water plant and replaced the water lines on Third Avenue, are now completing trench work by filling them with asphalt. Shields Paving will be arriving to lay a top layer of pavement on the two-block section, completing the project. According to Councilman Tyson Klukan, the Borough will received Community Block Development Grant funds in order to pay for the project. Klukan said the work is to be completed by October 13.
In Kittanning, R&B Services will begin paving of several alleys and a parking lot sometime within the next week. Armstrong County Planning and Development Project Manager Sally Conklin told Council on Monday night that the areas scheduled for paving work will include the McKean Street Parking Lot (behind Nextier and Citizen’s banks), Mulberry Street, Templeton Way between First National Bank and the Kittanning News Hallmark store, and the alley behind the Kittanning Post Office.
Last month, Shield’s Paving completed the pavement on Arch Street.
The reconstruction projects of Campbell Street and Sampson Street was scheduled to begin yesterday.
Paving in all these areas are expected to be completed before the end of October.
Meanwhile, a joint effort between Kittanning Borough and Armstrong County is addressing an issue with drainage in the County parking lot. Over many years, rock debris had entered the storm sewer system at the court house area and plugged it to the point that it created a dangerous situation. Kittanning Borough and the County each agreed to contribute $20,000 to having the storm sewer cleaned out. That project is expected to be completed this week.
Massive rock, bricks, and debris that even included an orange parking cone was part of the stuff extracted from a storm sewer under the county parking lot. The total bill for removal was in excess of $40,000.