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General News: Soil Samples First Step at DPW Building
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| An employee of the drilling company sunk a borer into the soil outside the DPW building on Wednesday. |
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| The samples were separated and sent to a lab for testing. |
August 27, 2010
Work began this week on the site of the village Department of Public Workers building, where soil testing must first be conducted before plans can be drawn up for the repair of structural deficiencies in the building.
ADT Geoprobe Services of Troy, NY, spent three days drilling 60-foot holes around the perimeter of the building. DPW chief Dave Halvorsen said that samples of the soils were taken every ten feet. The soil samples will now be tested for stability.
Previous tests were conducted on the site in 1973 and 2005, but questions have since been raised by Mayor Gross about whether the results proved that the soils are stable enough to support the building that was erected in 2006.
Despite his interest in getting the tests done, earlier this month, Mayor Gross refused a sign a work order for the soil testing, saying the document needed legal review. A majority of the village board voted to ask the testing company to go ahead with the work without a contract, which it did this week.
The DPW building has been vacant since February, when the village building inspector found numerous code violations in the structure. An engineering report later found structural deficiencies and the village has contracted with an architect to begin to fix those problems.
Meanwhile, DPW employees last week moved their headquarters out of the village hall, where they had been located since February. A rented trailer next to the DPW building is being used as the department’s temporary offices and breakroom.
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On this 5th anniversary of the Katrina tragedy in New Orleans, let's not forget the most important lesson of that storm: that it's especially dangerous to skimp on the underground work when building at the water's edge.
Yet, just after Katrina devastated New Orleans, our DPW building was built on a foundation design no engineer ever certified, anchored to nothing but about 50 ft of fill.
It's a disgrace.
posted by Jon Chase on 08/30/10 at 9:40 PM
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