Thursday, November 23, 2017
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Beginning next month, a portion of Phelps Street will be torn up for at least a year.
The city’s board of control Wednesday awarded a $943,032 contract to Marucci and Gaffney Excavating for the Phelps Street Phase II Sewer Replacement Project.
Deputy Director of Public Works Charles Shasho said this phase of the project will be on Phelps Street between Commerce and West Federal streets.
Shasho said the work is expected to begin next month, and while the street will be closed to vehicle traffic during the project, it will be open to pedestrian traffic. He said there are a few businesses on that stretch of the street, and arrangements will need to be made to make sure people can still have access to them.
Work should begin sometime in mid-December, and the bulk of the work should take six to nine months, Shasho said. After that is completed, AT&T will then move several underground cables to one central location.
When that is completed, then the sewer replacement phase of the project, or Phase III, will begin, Shasho said. He said the sewer replacement can’t take place until all the cables are moved.
In other business Wednesday, the board also approved a memorandum of understanding with the Eastgate Regional Council of Governments to do a study on the removal of four dams on the Mahoning River.
The memorandum calls for the city to be reimbursed by the council of governments for the cost of the survey not to exceed $83,300.