SOUTHWICK – The Department of Public Works is set to have two projects underway shortly on South Loomis St.
The first project involves a 9 inch culvert being replaced right near 196 South Loomis St., just north of Kline Road.
Crestview Construction, located right in Southwick, is the company who was hired by the DPW for this project. Crestview will be replacing the 9 in. culvert with a completely new concrete structure as the current culvert has been deteriorating.
Crestview will be on site this week doing tree work. DPW Director Randy Brown said that Crestview is scheduled to begin the project on Aug 29. Once the project is started, detour signs will be set up.
“The detours will be set up to be going down Kline Road. and Granville Rd.” said Brown.
The Southwick DPW has two projects ready to start on South Loomis Street . (Photo by Greg Fitzpatrick)
Traffic heading North will go down Kline Road., Granville Road., and then to South Loomis. The detour for traffic going South will go to Granville Road., to Kline Road., and then back over to South Loomis.
No one will be allowed to pass by the culvert near 196 South Loomis, but will still be able to go down South Loomis by using the proper detours.
The total cost of the project is $279, 250. The DPW was able to get money from a combination of local funds and Chapter 90 funds.
“We were able to secure funding this year to make the construction improvement,” said Brown.
As the culvert replacement project is expected to run through the end of September, a second project will then shortly begin on South Loomis.
Road paving work will be occurring on Kline Road, reaching out to as far as 93 South Loomis St. Lane Construction Corporation from Granby, Mass. will be the contractors for the project. They will be putting down 2 in. of road bed as well as 2 in. of new pavement.
“We’re going to pave as far as we can with our available funds,” said Brown.
Police officers will be on site and directing traffic as one lane will be open.
The total cost for the road paving is $220,000 and is also from Chapter 90 funds.
