Enormous Hole in the Ground…Fenwick Street…roughly one year and counting…WTF?!
I get that the one-story-deep hole was required so that work could be done on a water main or something, but why did it need to be there for SO DAMN LONG! It has only recently been filled in, but the street is still closed and movement seems to have stopped again. Does anybody know if people can expect to drive on Fenwick anytime before 2010? This actually doesn’t bother me that much, but it is so retarded (=’delayed’, by the way) I have to comment.
…oh, and extra asininity points for leaving an excavator parked there the whole fucking time.
—Wondering Who Planned This Out and If They Still Have a Job
This article appears in Apr 9-15, 2009.
I happened to be talking with someone just last night about this.
The project is to replace the very old and very leaky joint sanitary/storm sewer travelling down to the pumping station at the corner of Inglis and Barrington. (They’ve been working their way up hill for the past year or so, first up Inglis, then across Queen, through the Sobey’s parking lot, and now up Fenwick.)
Everyone swears up and down it has nothing to do with the pumping station problems, although I find that hard to believe— essentially, they’re putting down two new pipes, one will handle sewage, which will dump into the pumping station, and the other will handle storm water, bypassing the station. The effect will be to lower the amount of stuff going into the station.
Anyway, I’m told once they got down there they discovered the situation was worse than anyone imagined. I don’t know anything about the technical details, but apparently the extra work couldn’t be done over the winter. I have no idea why.
That’s simply the explanation. I don’t necessarily agree that it excuses the long delay in completing the project.
I lived right there last summer. If you recall, they had Sobey’s parking lot all dug up too. Then they paved everything and painted the lines. Four days later they were digging all that they had re-paved back up again to do the re-plumbing work you mentioned. I have a bad bad feeling we are in for a life time of work and expense. Whoever is responsible should be publicly tarred and feathered then dunked daily in the crap that continues to flow into the Harbour everyday. The system is fatally flawed because it can only handle 30mm of rain before the sewage has to be dumped too! It rains that much pretty much every time we get a front come through! Muppet Show… but that is an insult to the Muppets.
just another NS pothole…
It would probably help that they didn’t SLEEP ON THE JOB as well. That’s hard to believe isn’t it? (Just a tinge of sarcasm there.)
The hole is probably now deemed to be a “heritage property”, so no further development may take place…
the hole reminds me that HRM’s new motto should be
Welcome to Halifax ‘The New Stupid’