Huge Hole on Wolflin

[time2fly]

True...but we are 2 seperate "woman" making us collectively "WOMEN" ;D

[Writer]

I know, it's bugging me, too. I drive by it everyday on the way to work....

[catsmeow]

The people at Thai Arawan said the city is installing some water sanitation or filtration system. Nothing terribly exciting, is it?

[catsmeow]

See? Your silence is deafening ...

But we could make up a really cool story, couldn't we?

[time2fly]

Wow...really that is all it is? Tink and I did make up a great story though.......

[tinkerbell]

Yep we had fun friday! Why are they putting a filtration system right there in the middle of everything? Very strange place.

[time2fly]

catsmeow said:

The people at Thai Arawan said the city is installing some water sanitation or filtration system. Nothing terribly exciting, is it?

OK...so it is not a Stanley Marsh or Jesse Quackenbush venture....it is a T Boone Pickens thing....got it.

[tinkerbell]

Wind Mills that's it!

[time2fly]

Wouldn't that be a sight in Wolflin? Just another target during this wonderful Hell (oops I meant to say Spirit) Week.

[west-texan]

tinkerbell said:

Very strange place.

Uh oh...you might fit right in. ;D

Also...a news article I remembered seeing several months ago...

Home > News > Local News

Web-posted Monday, February 26, 2007
Sewer main project aims to keep up with growth

By Nicole King
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Amarillo's growth is prompting the city's Utilities Division to expand its operations and infrastructure. The City Commission recently approved a project to extend a sewer main in preparation for future growth.
The division was approved for $161,284 to extend a main 742 feet that's being built in Hillside Terrace. Utilities Division Director Dan Coffey said the addition is only the first part of an anticipated extension.

"This is the first leg of a greater system that will extend to Interstate 40 will serve Hillside to Interstate 40 to Soncy and Hope Road," Coffey said. "It's necessary due to the additional housing development in the subdivision that will allow the sewer main extension to be completed before the street paving." In the next five years, Coffey said the division will look at a number of extensions.

"We're looking at what we're going to have to recommend in the next year and the next five years," he said. "We are looking at further extensions further north and working our way toward Interstate 40. These are long-term projects, about five years, depending on how fast the city grows."

Another major project in the offing is the construction of a $5.39 million sewer lift station, or sewage pump station, at Wolflin Avenue and Georgia Street.

The new lift station will replace three older ones: one at Austin Park, and two underground, one at Wolflin Avenue and Georgia Street and on the north side of Interstate 40 under Georgia Street.

Some of the stations are as much as 40 feet underground. Coffey said people drive over the two lift stations and don't even know it.

"It is standard for lift stations to be underground, it's not standard for them to be under a street," he said. "Those lift stations were built 55 to 60 years ago."

"At the time, Georgia was a two-lane paved road and the stations weren't under the roadway at that time."

He said building and running the one station will cut down on energy and maintenance costs. Coffey said having stations under a roadway presents a safety issue.

"It's real dangerous for our employees to work on those, because they have to stop in traffic and get out and climb down in there. All of these lift stations are very old and there are concerns that they have outlived their usefulness," he said.

Coffey said, after the stations are shut down, they will be stripped of any useful equipment and then filled with a light concrete to fill then in so the possibility of sinkholes is reduced.

Another project the division was approved for is the lift station safety restoration project. The city will spend $161,700 to restore 22 sewer lift stations, or sewage pump stations. The renovations will include adding safety ladders, access latches and climbing protection devices.

There are more than 50 lift stations in the city, many of them were built 40 to 50 years ago. Crews check on the stations daily.

"In order to climb down into them, you have to climb down a ladder," Coffey said. "We're going back in and putting in various fall protection devices where you put a belt or a harness on you and if you were to slip, it would catch you. We're putting some of those in so the workers who have to go in to those are better protected."

[tinkerbell]

Well isn't that the s**ts? hee hee