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June 3, 2004
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New coat of paint for water tower
Work on the Village’s biggest project this year, repainting one of the Village’s two water towers, is now well underway. Workers for the contractor on the project, the American Suncraft Construction Company of Fairborn, are currently working inside the tank, which is located at Gaunt Park. Village Planner Phil Hawkey said that he expects the contractors to start working on the outside of the tank by “next week at the earliest.” Hawkey said that the project is 20 percent complete, though it got off to a “slow start” that Hawkey blamed on a leaky roof that has affected the painters’ progress. The project involves repainting the inside and outside of the tank. The contractors must remove the old paint and fix any defects they may find on the tower, before coating the structure with a special paint, Hawkey said. Troy Slone, who supervises the water treatment system for the Village, has said that the paint on the tower was deteriorating, causing the tank to rust on the outside. The rust would have eventually moved to the inside of the tank, Slone has said. The tower, which holds 900,000 gallons of water, was built in 1962, Hawkey said. The painters have erected scaffolding around the tower on which they will cover the tower with a huge covering, which is necessary to capture and properly dispose of the tower’s lead-based paint, Hawkey said. Depending on the weather, Hawkey said the project could be completed in August. The Village is paying American Suncraft $209,209 for the project. The Village had the other water tower repainted several years ago. Both in price tag and in scope, the water tower project is the Village’s biggest capital improvement project this year. This week Hawkey reported that the Village is making progress on a number of other projects, most of which are in the planning stages. For instance, design work is being completed on a project that would upgrade an electric line on East Enon Road, creating what Hawkey called a “main feeder line to serve industrial customers,” including The Antioch Company, the school buildings on East Enon, YSI Incorporated, Vernay Laboratories’ Dayton Street plants and businesses on U.S. 68 on the south end of Yellow Springs. The line would also service residential customers around East Enon. Numerous residents on East Enon and Golden Willow Court have objected to the project and have asked the Village to bury the new power line underground. The residents have said that new utility poles the project would require would make East Enon more dangerous and would hurt their property values. Hawkey said that the Village is meeting with the neighbors this week to discuss the project. The Village has budgeted $60,890 for the project. Hawkey said that burying the line could cost up to four times as much as hanging the line overhead. Hawkey said that the Village hopes to start this month a project to remodel the Public Works facility at the Sutton Farm on State Route 343. The project includes improving the facility’s restroom, break room and lockers, adding a second restroom, replacing the windows and painting the building. The Village will review the construction bids this week, and Village Council could accept a bid at its meeting June 7. In addition, this summer the Village will build a storage area for road salt, for $36,000, at the Public Works facility. This fall, the Village will replace a waterline on South Walnut and resurface the street between Dayton and Elm Streets. The Village has budgeted $75,000 to rebuild the street and $50,000 to upgrade the waterline. The Village hopes to complete the second half of the project next year, Hawkey said. This involves replacing the rest of the waterline, from Elm to Limestone, and resurfacing the rest of South Walnut. The work would be performed next summer, when school at Mills Lawn Elementary is out, Hawkey said. The Village has two other projects that Hawkey said should be completed this fall: improving the drainage at two of the Gaunt Park baseball diamonds (for $20,000, $15,000 of which is covered by a grant) and repairing the sanitary sewer system at Corry Street and Kieth’s Alley (for $32,750).
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