Mayor: ‘Hammonton was very close to another moratorium’
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down, probably in the next 10 to 15 days, the
electric company, we’re going to follow up
right after the pre-con meeting, you’re going
to have your tree surgeons out there finishing
whatever’s not completed and your pipe
crew’s going to start on Packard…so construction will start sometime, early, first 10 to
15 days of april, we’ll see some excavation
and some equipment and some mobilization,” DiDonato said.
the town has asked the electric company
to assist in trimming some of the trees that
are in line with power lines during the course
of the project.
“in cooperation with the town, we asked
atlantic City electric, on some of the trees
that are, on the trees that are underneath their
power lines, if they could provide any kind
of assistance with trying to work cooperatively with the town and homeowners to
please trim those trees to a point below the
tree line themselves,” Vettese said.
atlantic City electric representative tom
reilly noted that they were still waiting on a
list of trees before beginning work.
“i just want to reiterate, we still haven’t
gotten that list, so we’re about three weeks
behind for when we anticipated we were
going to get that list. it’s really important that
we get that in our education management
team’s hands as soon as possible so we can
keep you guys on schedule,” reilly said.
Based on the projected start date, Grape,
Packard and Second Street should take 16 to
20 weeks to complete, according to Mayor
DiDonato.
“You’re looking at 16 to 20
weeks… sometime, hopefully by
Labor Day, they’ll be in real good
shape,” DiDonato said.
DiDonato was very adamant
about taking care to complete the
compaction correctly on the project.
“take pains to do your compaction properly… and that’s one
thing i hope the inspectors are very
picky on… we’ve got to compact it
properly for the long run, this is a
very expensive job with a lot of taxpayer money, we want to make sure
it services the town for a long time
to come,“ DiDonato said.
Grape Street resident Diane DeCicco came before council to inquire
about a moratorium on non-emergency street openings after the project is completed.
“five years,” DiDonato said.
She also asked about one-side
parking on the street.
DiDonato said this was due to the
narrowing of the street in some areas
that will occur as a part of the project.
“two-way traffic, one-way parking…in some areas of Grape Street
we actually have to narrow a little bit
to get everything in, to make everything work, and try to save a few of
these trees, so there will not be
enough room,” DiDonato said.
in other council business, Councilman edward Wuillermin gave an
update on the status of the drip irrigation at Boyer avenue and the
town’s Long term Wastewater Management Plan, which will be going
before the full Pinelands Commission on March 14.
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