Roads A Mess As Sewer Installation Continues

If you live in the south Valley between Pines and Bowdish roads, plan on using the four-wheel drive for another few weeks. Or invest in hiking boots so you can hoof it to your front door.

Work crews should be finished installing sewer lines in the Twin View Utility Improvement District (ULID) by the end of June, but roads will be tough to navigate in the meantime.

The district is bordered to the south by 16th Avenue, to the north by Sixth Avenue, to the west by Bowdish Road and to the east by Pines Road.

Roads are blocked off to all but local traffic, said Diana Sargent of the county’s construction division. And even then, they’re torn up and can be pretty challenging for anything less than a Humvee.

Two-thirds of the work was finished there last summer, said Mark Stiltz, the county’s ULID project manager. Crews began blocking off roads and tearing up asphalt again March 18 to finish the job.

The roads that are blocked off vary from week to week.

Sargent said the current list of roads being worked on are: 10th Avenue from Union to Pines, Whipple Road from 12th to 16th, Robie Road from 10th to 12th, 12th Avenue from Union to Pines, Fox Road from 12th to 15th, 15th Avenue east to Fox, and 16th Avenue from Pines to Bowdish.

The Twin View ULID is the only sewer installation project now underway, Sargent said, but she expects another to start in June. She doesn’t enough information yet to release any details about the whens and wheres of it, though.

Stiltz guesses that about a third of the Valley now has access to sewers.

, DataTimes