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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(07-28-2015, 02:20 PM)schooner77 Wrote: I'm just an interested observer and looking forward to the change that this will all bring, but I'm sitting and watching them dig up the exact same stretch on Caroline at Allen for the third time in 10 months. I'm sure there's a reason, as I know next to nothing about this type of infrastructure construction. But surely, this is a redundancy of some sort? I haven't seen them pull out any other debris from the ground, except copious amounts of dirt. They've dug a 10 feet wide trench, laid down a black, flexible tubing of some sort and then covered most of it back up. I would've thought that whatever underground upgrading that was to have been done, would've been completed ages ago.

I've observed them removing the original sewer pipes in the past week or two.

It may go something like this: Dig up the street, lay the new sewer, fill. Dig up the street, lay the other infrastructure that goes above the sanitary and storm sewers, fill. Dig up the street, remove the old stuff that is no longer in use, fill. Different contracts mean work at different times, and it's not safe for them to leave the entire street as a gaping hole for the duration.

I wouldn't want them to remove the old sanitary sewer before the new one was ready to go. That would be slightly messy.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by timio - 07-28-2015, 02:58 PM
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