The closely monitored, temporary repaving of South Avenue will start next Tuesday and the state wants to wrap up by Halloween, officials say.
Delayed and botched by the Connecticut Department of Transportation’s contractor, the repaving of South Avenue, which doubles as state Route 124, is part of Aquarion’s yearslong, protracted water main installation from eastern New Canaan to Farm Road and South Avenue.
The contractor will “come and do a two-inch mill-and-fill” on South Avenue running south to Farm Road between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann.
“That’s the permit time,” Mann told the selectmen at their regular meeting, held Tuesday at Town Hall and via videoconference. “And they’ll come out here, mill it, and fill it on a day. So mill section, fill it, mill section, fill it for three, four days and finish that work.”
The comments came during Mann’s regular update on public works projects around town.
Selectman Steve Karl noted that the “repaving” work is to make South Avenue “drivable” and “ridable” but that “everybody should understand it’s not the final product.”
Mann agreed, saying, “The ridability is terrible, especially on the southbound lane, and that’s what I wanted to have fixed. So they’re coming back to fix that ridability, but they’ll have to come back next summer for the full-depth restoration. Because the trench only has a temporary patch on it. So the state wants full-depth restoration. That’ll be during the summer next year, similar to what they did this year. Similar timeframe, 7 [a.m.] to 5 [p.m.], and during the summer, right after school ends.”
What exactly is meant by “closely monitored” and why was it botched the first time?