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City workers warm up the backhoe on 10th St. in preparing to finish up the aide they are lending to the Veteran’s Affairs office, a job Public Service Director John Hehnke said they hope to finish up before the cold hits this weekend.
City workers warm up the backhoe on 10th St. in preparing to finish up the aide they are lending to the Veteran’s Affairs office, a job Public Service Director John Hehnke said they hope to finish up before the cold hits this weekend.
As many commuters around town have noted a small area of 10th Ave. has been blocked off and cones direct traffic into what is normally the turn lane.
The cause, “We are helping the Veterans Affairs office there. They are required to put in a fire line into their building. So we are helping with that because we have to tap the water main there on 10th Ave.,” Sidney Public Service Director John Hehnke said.
“So we had to cut open the street, make the tap and get the line extended over to outside of the street for the contractor.”
Hehnke said the city works will make the tap on, off the water main, and a contractor, employed by the Veterans Affairs office will then lay the piping down from the water main into the V.A. building for the fire line. A job Hehnke doesn’t believe will take too long.
“We are hoping by the end of today that we will have the hole filled back in and open to traffic. We are trying to beat the cold weather. We don’t want to have the ground and the main exposed to the bitter cold that is supposed to hit.”
The bitter cold is supposed to hit this weekend.
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