Sewer Update

The Sewer Reconstruction project is part of a $240 million dollar Citywide project that will be spread out over the next 18 years. There will be many of these same projects taking place all over the City of Fort Wayne during the summer. There will be no special assessment to Kirkwood Park or any of its residents for this project.

Our contractor is Geiger Excavating. Ray Wigfield is the Construction Manager, Ron Sheppard is the Program Manager. The project began on Thursday, February 5, 2008, and should be wrapped up by the end of August, by Labor Day weekend. Once this project is completed, this will wrap up the entire sewer reconstruction for Kirkwood Park.

The construction will start at the Springfield at Crescent Ave. extrance, going east to Kirkwood Drive, north on Kirkwood Drive to the end, and curving around to go over to Merivale, where one block (from Kirkland Ave. to to Rolston St.) is slated for the sewer construction.

All of Kirkwood Drive and the one block portion of Merivale will have all new concrete. However, concrete will NOT be poured until the weather breaks — in the interim, there will be stone/gravel placed for residents to travel on. The contractor does not anticipate any construction or concrete pouring to go any further than the right of way or driveway approach of affected each residents property.

Once the concrete is poured, affected residents will not have access to their driveways for one (1) full week. Residents will then be directed to street parking nearby their homes.

If the need arose for any type of utility shut-off, affected residents would be notified 24 hours in advance.

Kirkwood Circle will have portions of cement replaced — this is due to extra CEDIT funding coming available to us via our 2nd Disctrict Councilperson, Karen Goldner. This repair should take place something during the construction project.
This project will serve ALL of us and will only bring better property values to our neighborhood.

Construction Contacts are:
Ray Wigfield,
Construction Manager
Phone: (260) 427-2704
FAX: (260) 427-6234
E-MAIL: ray.wigfield@
ci.ft-wayne.in.us

Ron Sheppard,
Program Manager
Phone: (260) 427-2705
FAX: (260) 427-6234
E-MAIL: ron.sheppard@
ci.ft-wayne.in.us

City Utilities update

Here is the letter we all should have received from City Utilities, concerning new storm sewers. Please plan on attending the public meeting to discuss the details on Wednesday, June 4 at Forest Park United Methodist Church. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m.

Fort Wayne City Utilities
Planning and Design Services
One E. Main Street, Room 480
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802
May 8, 2008

Dear Kirkwood Park Area Resident:

Fort Wayne City Utilities is beginning design for the construction of new storm sewers in your neighborhood to help reduce the discharge of combined sewage into the St. Joseph River. This letter is your invitation to attend a public meeting to discuss the proposed projects. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 4 beginning at 7:00 PM at the Forest Park United Methodist Church at 2100 Kentucky Avenue.

Most of Kirkwood Park is served by combined sewers. These are sewers that carry sanitary sewage to the Water Pollution Control Plant (sewage treatment plant) in dry weather. However, when it rains or snow melts, these sewers carry a combination of sanitary sewage and storm water runoff. Many times the sewage treatment plant cannot treat all of the “wet weather” flow, so sewage is released to the St. Joe River.

As part of the City’s agreement with the Federal government to reduce the amount of sewage going to our rivers every year, we have agreed to build new storm sewers in many neighborhoods – especially those in the St. Joe River basin. Your neighborhood is one where new storm sewers are proposed on several streets to collect stormwater that goes into street inlets. The majority of the work will take place in public rights-of-way. No work on private property is anticipated, and the projects WILL NOT include any private plumbing modifications.

Please join City Utilities for this important meeting. Information that you may have about street drainage concerns or other issues in your neighborhood is vital to the success of this project, and we hope that you will attend the meeting to share information with us. The meeting will consist of a short presentation about the proposed storm sewer construction. Then staff members from the city will be available to discuss any concerns you may have about the project.

We hope to see you at:
Forest Park United Methodist Church
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 7:00 PM

Questions about the meeting may be directed to Wendy Reust in Planning and Design Services at 427-1367.

Sincerely,

Mary Jane Slaton, Program Manager