Staff report
“On July 19th, we will open the Access Road to two-way traffic on a gravel surface. It will remain this way going forward until work along edges of the road are completed,” Markowski Excavating, Inc. explained in a news release Tuesday, June 25.
Once the road has been opened, more communication companies will be onsite to move their lines over to the new poles. Intermittent delays should be expected.
Topsoil will be installed along with plantings and shrubs and a cobble stone pathway, Markowski noted.
The road will remain gravel until the week of Aug. 12 when “we will close the road in order to start paving. Line striping will follow by the end of the week,” Markowski said. “Once we enter the end of August, expect clean up work along the edges of the asphalt, final stabilization work, clean up along Route 4 and final sign installation at the Killington Mountain Sports building.”
Drilling, blasting and major rock removal is anticipated to be completed prior to the Fourth of July weekend. No construction work is scheduled from July 4-7. Green Mountain Power will be on site from July 1-19, at which point new poles will be set and all new power lines will be relocated to the western edge of the road within the project limits.
Prior to July 19, the section of Killington Road from where it intersects with Route 4 to Anthony Way will remain closed. The detour is up West Hill Road.
On Monday, June 24, Markowski also began installing the sewer line from Route 4 working up the road. “We also plan to install the last sewer manhole along Route 4,” Markowski noted. “We were delayed on this work waiting on some materials for crossing over the future water line.”
This week the crews also will dig test holes for where the future power poles are to be installed in preparation for Green Mountain Power to decide if enough rock was blasted or if they need to drill deeper for the poles.
