Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell visits every business in Concord, casting his vote at each stop in the Best At Whatever It Is You Do In This Store category. We follow close behind collecting the hanging chads, which spell out the city memo. That makes everyone a winner!
Clean as a whistle
Vactor shines up stuff
The General Services Department has placed into service a new Vactor brand manhole and catch basin cleaning vehicle, Aspell writes. The vehicle was added after people flooded city offices with complaints regarding the disheveled appearance of all the citys’s manholes and catch basins.
The vehicle is dispatched daily to maintain the sewer and drain systems throughout the city. This effort assures the city compliance with the best management practices to meet state and federal environmental regulations. If the addition is a success, the city will be pitching a general services reality program to the major networks entitled The X Vactor.
Put that pipe in your pipe
Don’t smoke it, though
The contract for the second phase of the Loudon Road water main replacement project was awarded to S.U.R. Construction West, Aspell writes.
The work will include replacing 4,200 linear feet of 8-inch water main on Loudon Road, from East Side Drive to Old Loudon Road, with new 12-inch pipe. Corncob, we presume. A neighborhood meeting will be scheduled in early June, with construction to commence in mid-June. Late June, though, is all yours.
Plumbing away
Sewer fixes ahead
F.L. Merrill Inc. will repair the sewer service at 5 Thomas St. on May 22 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Aspell writes. Ten hours of sewer repair? Do us a favor and don’t tell us what was wrong.
The northbound slip ramp access to Hazen Drive, heading west on Loudon Road, will be closed during this time. Northbound access to Hazen Drive will be detoured to the signal. The bat signal? Sweet!
The contractor will be repairing the sewer service to Riverbend, located at 103 Loudon Road, just east of Dunkin Donuts, May 23 from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Traffic in the work area will be shifted to the two east bound lanes on Loudon Road and reduced to one lane in each direction. Sounds like fun!
Slow and steady my eye
Rabbits are fast and stuff
The city’s contractor, Rabbit Enterprises, will start sweeping streets this week, Aspell writes. It will take approximately 3 to 6 weeks to complete. Rabbit won the bid for the job, narrowly defeating Tortoise Enterprises in a stunning revenge upset.
