Work continues on several HHS, HMS projects
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 • The Hammonton Gazette • Page 3
by Kevin Troilo
Gazette StaFF Writer
HaMMONtON—there are a
number of maintenance and
restoration projects taking place
this summer at Hammonton’s public schools. according to Superintendent Dr. Dan blachford, the list
of work scheduled to be done is as
follows: the repairing of an ongoing electrical issue at the high
school; a PaC lighting project at
the high school; a $350,000
drainage project at the high school;
bathroom, teacher room and science lab remodeling and renovations at the middle school.
the drainage project at Hammonton High School is something
that blachford cited has needed
complete remediation for a number of years.
“the final finish grading around
Hammonton High School is either
level or actually slopes back to the
building,” blachford said.
Whenever ground slopes inward
towards a building, it allows rain
water, snow melt or any sort of excess runoff to form puddles at the
base of the walls, blachford said.
there are a few areas at the school
that have been affected more than
others. these include a
number of offices and
classrooms, the auxiliary gym (where
wrestling
takes
place) and the main
gymnasium entrance.
“When they build
the school, the base
floor should have
been located minimally 12 [inches]
higher than it is and
the finish exterior
grades set minimally
6 [inches] lower than the floor …
the other area of concern is at the
gymnasium entrance area. Numerous downspouts dump rain water
in large amounts right on top of the
concrete walkway. Over the years,
this concrete has settled and some
of which are sloping back toward
the entrance doors causing ponding, further settlement and dangerous ice conditions in freezing
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weather,” blachford said.
there are a number of ways to
fix this ongoing problem. the
company who was contracted for
the job will be building a stone
trench outside the exterior of the
building in the areas where the
problem exists. they will be installing a perforated drainage pipe
into the trench that will collect all
of the water that is dumped back
into the trenches, blachford said.
Since the auxiliary and
main gymnasium entrances both receive a lot
of foot traffic during
sports seasons, there are
also plans to fix these
areas.
“they are also going
to remove portions of
concrete slab in
courtyard, excavate
down to the top of the
concrete footing under
auxiliary gym wall and
apply water proofing
membrane the entire
length of courtyard to fill and pour
new concrete slab … at the gym
entrance, [they] are removing all
damaged and settled concrete
slabs, installing a new drainage
line and attaching all existing
downspouts in the area of the entrance of the new drainage line,”
blachford said.
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and the fixing of a sinking floor.
Demolition of the bathrooms has
already taken place and the remodeling will continue throughout the
summer. Like the bathrooms, the
teachers’ room has already been
completely demolished and will be
red