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Snowstorm Grayson has delayed work on the Springwood Avenue sewer improvement project by one day, according to the City’s Engineering Consultant Jason Harzold of T&M Associates.

A part of the Main Street Redevelopment Area’s ongoing infrastructure improvements, the pipe replacement will occur along Springwood Avenue, from the intersection of Main Street [Rt. 71] to Memorial Drive.

The six to eight week project will begin Tuesday but the intersection of Main Street and Springwood Avenue will be closed to vehicular traffic as follows:

Beginning 4 p.m. Tuesday through 8 p.m. Wednesday, Main Street’s northbound lane will be closed from Main Avenue in Ocean Grove to Springwood Avenue. A detour will run along Bond Street behind Dunkin Donuts to Lake Avenue east to Grand Avenue north to  First Avenue. Southbound will remain open.

Beginning 8 p.m. Wednesday through 8 p.m. Friday, Main Street’s southbound lane will be closed from Bangs to Springwood avenues. The detour will be west on Bangs Ave to Memorial Dr. South on Memorial Dr to Corlies Ave, then east on Corlies Ave to Main St. There will be limited access to businesses on Main St between Springwood Ave and Cookman Ave during this period. Main Street’s northbound lane will remain open during this period.

From 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Tuesday through Friday,  sections of Main Street will be closed. The locations will be changing nightly and detours will not be significant.

The work includes the jack and bore method of construction, meaning two horizontal access points are created in order to pass the new line through without disturbing what is above, Harzold has said. The Department of Transportation mandates that the work be done on a continual 24 hour basis until the work is complete.

Once complete, upgrades will continue through to Memorial Drive.

Smaller sewer lines, reflected on plans dating back over 10 years, need to be replaced, especially in light of the pending the pending Boston Way, Renaissance, and Interfaith Neighbors residential projects, due to come online within the next 1½ years, City Manager Michael Capabianco has said.

The project is a part of the City’s larger $3 million infrastructure improvement plan, funded through its Capital Improvement Program, with an additional $1 million in NJDOT grants dating back to 2010 being used, Capabianco said.

Paving will take place in early Spring, in time for the expected start of the Main Street Road Diet – the State’s traffic calming plan that will narrow the four lane road to two and include bicycle travel lanes and a center bi-directional turn lane.

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