![]() ![]() This work will impact traffic patterns on these two rights-of-way. The portion of Hayward Road that was completed last year (Between Arlington Street and the Route 2 Bridge) and Stow Street will be paved curb-to-curb in early May. This should be complete by the end of April. The Stow Street portion will consist of tying in the intersection at Stow/Liberty/Martin Streets to the new main on Stow Street. We anticipate this will be completed in the early summer. Please refer to the Water Quality page to answer frequently asked questions pertaining to discolored water.Īfter terminating work last December due to the impending winter weather, Onyx Corporation of Acton, MA has re-mobilized to complete the scope of the water main replacement on Stow Street, and then proceed to Hayward Road to complete the replacement of the water main pipe between the Route 2 Bridge and Main Street/Route 27. These activities are likely to create discoloration of water due to changes in flow directions and velocities. ![]() Over the next several days, we will be reconfiguring the flow patterns in the areas of STOW, ROBBINS, PRESCOTT, NASH and connecting streets. Onyx is getting ready to tie-in the new main at the intersection of Stow/Martin/Liberty and will be conducting some low-flow flushing. These projects have major traffic impacts, and simply disrupt the typical routines of life, and we thoroughly appreciate everyone’s understanding of the challenges of replacing buried infrastructure. I would like to thank citizens and motorists for their patience during very trying times. The bill’s objective is assisting the Commonwealth’s cities & towns in financing these critical improvements. There is currently proposed legislation that has been passed by the MA Senate, Senate Bill 2016 seen here, in February of this year, that has now moved to the MA House of Representatives. Here in United States, the shortfall of funding infrastructure improvements for water and wastewater systems is in the neighborhood of $20-billion. This issue is not isolated to Acton, but is global problem. This is part of our annual commitment to improve aging and failing infrastructure at a rate of $500k per year. Over the course of the coming week, they will be resurfacing the impacted roadways from curb-to-curb, and restoring abutting areas that were disturbed by this project. Onyx should be mobilizing to this area by mid-May. ![]() The forthcoming phase will be a replacement of the pipe on Hayward Road between the Route 2 bridge and Main Street/Route 27. This culminates an infrastructure improvement that began in the summer of 2013, and included the replacement of the problematic main on Hayward Road between Arlington Street and Haartz Corporation behind the A-B Regional School campus. This past week, the new pipes passed leak testing and bacterial testing, and have been placed into service. The contractor, Onyx Corporation of Acton, has completed the connection at the 5-way intersection at Liberty, Stow and Martin Streets.
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