Government
Selectmen OK Contract To Repair Main Street Sidewalk
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Town officials voted last week to repair a stretch of sidewalk opposite the fire station that’s been damaged, in part, from large emergency vehicles pulling up onto it while turning in order to back into their bays at the Main Street building.
The repair will involve about 156 feet of sidewalk in front of the Vine Cottage, according to Walker Blair, a New Canaan High School senior intern with the town Department of Public Works. “The fire trucks as they have come out of the firehouse, they have hit the granite curbing and caused it to shift outwards, allowing water to permeate between the concrete sidewalk and the curb which has caused major cracking and even, in one place, sinking under the concrete,” Blair, who plans to attend Lehigh University next year to study mechanical engineering, told members of the Board of Selectmen at their June 6 meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. First Selectman Kevin Moynihan and Selectmen Kathleen Corbet and Nick Williams voted 3-0 in favor of a $27,036 contract with New Canaan-based Peter Lanni Inc. The project had gone out to bid to six contractors and two returned with quotes, Blair said. Public Works Director Tiger Mann said that the deterioration has happened over time and was exacerbated when a natural gas line was run through the area. “It just so happens they drove over it and punched through, which then allowed us to go out there and take a look,” Mann said.
