City of New Bedford roadwork sites for the upcoming week of March 1 ,2020 – March 6, 2020

The City of New Bedford has roadwork sites for the upcoming week of March 1 ,2020 – March 6, 2020 and they are as follows:

Eversource:

• Eversource will replace the gas mains at the following locations: There will be no services tied into the new mains until after April 1, 2020 as a precaution of the winter season.
◦ Fair St. from County St. to Orchard St.
◦ Jason Ct. from Crapo St. to 3 Jason Ct.
◦ Crapo from Grinnell to Rockland St.
◦ Summer St. from Studley to Locust
◦ Johnathan from Arnold St. to 57-59 Johnathan St.
◦ Rounds St. from Arnold St. to 141 Rounds
◦ Commonwealth Ave. between Kempton St. – Clarendon St.
◦ Metropolitan from Dartmouth Town Line To Commonwealth Ave.
◦ Peckham from Mt. Pleasant to County St.
◦ Mulberry St. from Larch to #8 Mulberry St.
◦ Cottage St. from Parker St. to Durfee St.
◦ Bolton from Fair St. To Kane St.

Other:

• Contractor working at Hazelwood Park for new power supply and upgrades to parking lot lighting.
• Contractor will continue water and sewer replacement along Cottage St between Parker and Maxfield Street. During working hours, Cottage St. may be closed to thru traffic with access by local traffic only at times. Southbound traffic will be detoured via Pope, Parker or Willis Street. North bound traffic will be detoured via Smith, Sycamore or Maxfield Street. Detour signage, police details and traffic controls will be in place.
• Contractor is scheduled to continue construction of the new pumping station and installation of the site utilities at the Front St./ Elm St. site. Elm St. between JFK Memorial Highway (Route 18) and Macarthur Drive will be closed to westbound traffic. Westbound traffic will be detoured via MacArthur Drive. There will be detour signage and traffic controls in place.
• Contractor will continue scheduling appointments and will have technicians visiting various locations throughout the city to replace meters and meter interface units (meter readers). There will be no traffic controls for this work.
• Due to ongoing construction at the High Hill Reservoir, residents may experience discolored water. The water is safe and the discoloration is temporary. We recommend allowing the water to settle for a few hours and then flushing your service line by letting the bath tub run for a few minutes until the water clears.
• Department of Public Infrastructure will be filling potholes on a continuous basis throughout the city.
• Please see the City of New Bedford website for additional street closings due to Special Events.
• Department of Public Infrastructure conducting its annual street sweeping program city-wide.
• The Contractor will begin work to relocate the existing water transmission main at the Tarkiln Hill Rd/Kings Highway rail crossing. There will be temporary lane closures at times during construction. Police details will assist with traffic management and signage will be posted.
• The Contractor Scheduled to work 10 p.m.- 6 a.m., Sunday March 8th for Shutdown of 36” water main between Lambeth St and Park Ave. All services impacted by the shutdown have been notified. Water main will be back up and running by 6:00 a.m. Monday March 9th.
• The Contractor is scheduled to continue cleaning and performing CCTV work on wastewater piping along Macarthur Dr, JFK Memorial Highway, Herman Melville Blvd, Wamsutta St, Antonio L Costa Ave, Hervey Tichon Ave, Rodman St, Hamilton St, Centre St, Union St, Commercial St, Cannon St Power Plant, Airport Access Rd, Mill Rd, River Rd, Mazeppa St, Tarkiln Hill Rd, Hamlin St, Truro St, Wood St, and Howard Ave.