The city of Fort Wayne is dealing with a major water shutdown downtown today.
We’re told that much of the area downtown west of Harrison Square is out of water again today. Yesterday, portions of the same area were without water in the afternoon. The city’s 311 call center stated (yesterday) it was a problem caused by Harrison Square contractors.
Today they say the city may have to replace a major water main, and 311 is blaming it on Allstar construction.
AWB
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Wow. Someone in my league told me there would be a problem there but I can’t remember who it was. I wonder if its really the construction company’s fault or a design flaw. I remember this person also going on and on about “Why are they digging down because they are going to have to pump out a lot of water?”
This is turning out to be like the “Big Dig” on the east coast. What a F.U.B.A.R.
The Arby’s went next door to the liquor store and bought a bunch of 20 oz. bottles to give to their customer’s with a glass of ice with their lunch orders. Someone from the construction company managed to tell the Starbucks management they would be without water, but no one else I have found knew about it until after it was shut off.
A call to the office at the construction company said yes, they were working on the problem.
Dan:
You need to put one of those “cost clock” widgets (like the one for the War in Iraq) on this site…for Costaplenty (Harrison) Square…have it keep on adding up the TOTAL cost….be nice for $hits N Grins.
I shouldn’t say “design flaw”… the designers may be constantly scrambling from what they are being asked… Major “design idea” fault might be more accurate. I mean, I don’t know if one has to be built if digging one is better or not. Who knows? Shorter light poles are an advantage I guess.
Someone who works next door just told me they had a major stench in their building last night.
I heard from a person who works for the waste water department that when they dug the parking garage for the library, they encountered a massive amount of groundwater intrusion into the site.
In an uncharacteristically smart move, they are harnessing it to heat and cool the library. However, they dug a giant hole in the ground to build a baseball diamond and I do wonder how they intend to dispose of the water…
“However, they dug a giant hole in the ground to build a baseball diamond and I do wonder how they intend to dispose of the water…”
Maybe we’ll get a water park downtown after all!
When a plan like the unnecessary new ball diamond includes a line item for “dewatering” and an organization is hired to accomplish this, why are you now questioning this – THE PROBLEM WAS KNOWN FROM THE START, but we proceed in spite of it – that’s how Redevelopment has been doing things for many years – SNAFU.
Oh, I should have been more specific. The person who warned to me predicted they would actually break a city main. I don’t think that was supposed to be a part of the plan.
And I remembered who it was that told me this and will see him next week and find out things of my own satisfaction I guess… for whatever good that does. I think he was part of a group that didn’t get a contract, and has no favored status to get a contract.