The Board of Selectmen at its most recent meeting approved an approximately $70,000 contract with a local company to replace parts of bluestone walkways within Waveny.
The selectmen voted 3-0 at their July 12 meeting in favor of a $70,030 contract with Fortino Escalante Inc. to replace two of the four walkways emanating from the fountain below the recently changed parterre garden east of the main house.
“This will involve taking out all the bluestone, saving what we can save, re-bedding the entire process,” Public Works Director Tiger Mann told the selectmen at their regular meeting, held in Town Hall and via videoconference. “Then putting the bluestone back and supplementing it with new bluestone for any piece that had broken or is in disrepair.”
The town and Waveny Park Conservancy—an organization brought forward a “concern” about the walkways, Mann said—are roughly splitting the cost of the project.
First Selectman Kevin Moynihan and Selectmen Kathleen Corbet and Nick Williams voted 3-0 in favor of the contract.
The two two walkways to get work will be the one headed from the fountain toward the gazebo (south) and the one that heads down the sledding hill toward the pond, Mann said.
As it is now, there are two to three small seps that lead from a service area to the gazebo which “would not be ADA-compliant,” he said.
“So part of this process would be to reset the bluestone so that it would be at-grade and it would be flush the entire way with no steps. So the feeling is to come forward with these two sections, and then based upon success, come back for all other phases of work.”