You might recall that a week or so ago we mentioned that we are so very sick of looking at the strings of green steel pipe in our backyard. Well, we’re still sick of it. And we asked our ROW agent and Project Manager Tom Hodge when we might expect that pipe to be placed in the ground and restoration to begin. Here is what we learned:
Because on a couple of properties just a few hundred feet from ours the pipe runs very close those property owners’ homes (we’re talking maybe 20 feet!), they are boring, rather than digging. This apparently takes a bit more time. But once they’ve done that, they can tie the pipe in our yard into that bore. If all goes well, they anticipate all of that to be completed in the next two weeks. Hooray!
Beyond that, Tom Hodge says that they hope to have everything in the ground– there are apparently still some spots over in the Stockbridge area and elsewhere to the east where crews are still tying in– by the end of April. Restoration will then begin as soon as the ground is dry enough for crews to work on it without leaving ruts and so forth.
As for the details of restoration, well, we’ve got some more inquiries in regarding some of those matters and will report to you what we learn if and when we learn some things.
Sam is sick of it, too.
Construction is ongoing here by Stockbridge.
The trees came down SEPTEMBER 17.
(What I considered the start of construction.)
The pipe is STILL not in the ground!!
There are so much equipment that it looks
Like an Interstate highway is being built.
I had no success in getting Enbridge to commit to any kind of date to adhere to marking the beginning of the restoration phase. I fear that they will use the fact that construction is still ongoing (somewhere, anywhere on the route) that restoration need not begin.
Did any of you get a specific date, time frame or duration specifying this on your agreements?
The only thing I was told (and, of course, this not in writing) is that Enbridge is required to cover the pipe within 3 days of opening its trench, but as I look at the pictures and read these posts, I’m starting to believe that this fact, too, is also untrue.