This a service improvement update:

As you know, Capital Improvement project 749 (CIP 749) which is a stormwater improvement project, is scheduled to begin soon. Adena Brook Community neighbor Kip Patterson attended a meeting to learn more about the project this week and met the contractor. Kip has an engineering background and is a helpful representative to neighbors for this work. Kip keeps maps of the sewer, water, and gas lines in our areas. I am delighted about the relationship Kip has established with city engineer Mark Timbrook, and with the excavating contractor, Jackie S. Fields, as we begin this project.

Most important, and the reason for this email, is to tell you that before the project can begin, Columbia Gas has work to do. This morning I talked with Columbia Gas public relations person, Pam Learman. She was proactively helpful and very kind. She made contact with our group to begin a positive partnership so that improvements are made in the least invasive way possible and so that we are aware of their work. BEFORE the CIP 749 gets underway, Columbia Gas needs to do some of their own improvement work: [1] move 103 meters outdoors–some of us have meters in our homes and they need to be placed outdoors, and [2] relocate 6,800 feet of gasline–this will affect about 125 homes. All homeowners directly affected by the work will receive a letter from Columbia Gas early next week. Pam said the letters will be mailed out tomorrow. The work will begin about August 1st and take a month. Then CIP 749 will begin. The streets affected for the gas line improvement are:

Glenmont

Glenmont Place

Wynding

Yaronia

Wynding

Lenappe

Canyon

I am grateful for the improved services to our neighborhood. I am happy to tell you that the City (DOSD) and Columbia Gas know about our group’s conservation efforts and I am hopeful and confident this work will be done with respect for the natural environment, both park land and residential property. It will be an inconvenience, though. Expect traffic disruption and work in some of the easement parts of your properties if you receive a letter. Our aging neighborhood needs these improvements. It is important to get this work done.