The Warwick Sewer Authority is going to “sock it” to more detours on Sandy Lane.
Yes, it is a sock that the authority plans to use to avert additional pipe collapses like that which occurred …
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The Warwick Sewer Authority is going to “sock it” to more detours on Sandy Lane.
Yes, it is a sock that the authority plans to use to avert additional pipe collapses like that which occurred on Nov. 21, resulting in the diversion of Sandy Lane traffic until Jan. 5 when the replacement of 154 feet of sewer line 25 feet below ground was completed. In making that repair, cameras were sent into the line extending in both directions from the break.
What was discovered is a disaster waiting to happen. The concrete pipe installed in 1978-79 under a federally financed program was so badly deteriorated from the corrosive effects of hydrogen sulfide gas – it smells like rotten eggs – that there are holes in places and the wire frame is all that remains. Another collapse is certain to happen. The only question is when.
Hopefully that won’t happen before the sock arrives.
Last week, a police cruiser diverted traffic from the middle of Sandy Lane as a crew from Green Mountain took measurements for a “sock” (the technical term is CIPP or “cured in place pipe”) to be fitted into more than 700 feet of the 24-inch pipe. Made of fiberglass, the sock will be impregnated with resin and then filled with water to conform to the walls of the existing pipe. The resin will harden overnight and the following day the line will be drained and a robot sent into the newly reinforced pipe to cut openings for collecting pipes, explained Scott Goodinson, WSA superintendent.
“If we didn’t do this we’re looking at another collapse,” Goodinson said following his presentation Thursday night to the Warwick Sewer Authority. Unlike the pipe replacement that detoured traffic around Mickey Stevens Sports Complex and on to Cedar Swamp Road for weeks, the “sock project” should be completed in two days in mid-February.
There’s more to it than the inconvenience of a detour on one of the city’s major thoroughfares.
Apart from being rapidly completed, the preventive measure is a fraction of the cost of replacing the existing pipe. The contract with Green Mountain is $107,000 to line more than 700 feet of the Oakland Beach interceptor that starts near the fire station on West Shore Road, cuts over by Vets Middle School to Armory Lane and then Down Sandy Lane to Cedar Swamp Road. As it cost $550,000 to replace the 154 feet of collapsed pipe, unearthing and replacing an additional 700 feet could cost at least an additional $1 million.
In October the authority contracted with Green Mountain for an additional 700 feet of CIPP to the Oakland Beach interceptor that cuts across Vets Middle School to Armory Street. That is a 20-inch pipe and will cost $73,700 and will be done as soon as possible after completion of the 24-inch pipe, said WSA director Janine Burke-Wells.
Hit twice by a surprise pipe collapse in the area – the first was last August when the line feeding the Cedar Swamp pumping station ruptured – the authority isn’t taking any chances. At Thursday’s meeting the authority acted to keep near the site two rental pumps that were used for the Sandy Lane bypass during repairs. In addition, the authority has installed monitoring devices at two of the Sandy Lane manholes that are programmed to send an alert to the cell phones of key personnel when water levels within the pipe either increase or drop to preset levels. When they significantly divert from those levels, a sign of a blockage, they send an alarm. This allows the authority to respond with a truck to pump out the line as the blockage is located and before there are backups into residences and businesses.
Of the 300 miles of pipes in the city’s sewer system, Burke-Wells estimates about 80 miles are concrete pipes with the newer and corrosion-resistant PVC pipe making up the difference. She explained that not all concrete pipe is the same and that the pre-stressed concrete cylinder (PCC) used for Sandy Lane was designed for a forced main. She can’t answer why the proper pipe was not used at that time.
She said the authority’s other “no-dip” options are being explored to address the aging system. Slip lining, as was done to the main interceptor running under Route 95, is another option.
Thankfully, she said, the authority has the funds in its renewal and replacement account to cover the cost of the work being done to the Oakland Beach interceptor.
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richardcorrente
The residents and businesses along Sandy Lane were unduly and unfairly harmed by this issue and should receive some sort of relief from the City, maybe in the form of a disaster-relief tax credit.
One thing to praise though. The City workers never took a ten-minute break. Every time I went by, the ENTIRE CREW was working. I've never seen that in ANY street repair. Anywhere. Ever.
Happy Valentines everyone.
GO PATRIOTS!
Rick Corrente
The Taxpayers Mayor
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 Report this
Thecaptain
Dear Idiot,
How could you go buy and see the entire crew working when the detour was in effect and you could not go by the site?
You continue to amaze me with stupidity.
Thursday, January 31, 2019 Report this
Cat2222
Unless you were sitting at the site babysitting the workers the entire day, you can't say with any reasonable conviction that they NEVER TOOK A 10 MINUTE BREAK.
They are allowed breaks according to the RI Dept of Labor and Training. Taking breaks is legal. If you drive by while they are on a break, that doesn't mean they aren't working.
"A twenty-minute unpaid meal period must be given during a six-hour shift, and a thirty-minute unpaid meal period must be given during an eight-hour shift. This does not include healthcare facilities or companies employing less than three employees at one site during a shift.
Thursday, January 31, 2019 Report this
wrkvoter
Wish these comments wouldnt be tainted with proof again and again what a vapid, pandering, intellectually dishonest moron corrente truly is. It would be nice if corrente would go back to what cote pointed out screwing the city on his own taxes, tied up losing lawsuits, getting evicted, and whatever else and leave us sane thinker to contribute rationally.
Instead of saying more ridiculous nonsense like that our workers "NEVER TOOK A TEN MINUTE BREAK". How about a "TEN MINUTE BREAK" from his complete nonsense?
Amazing how fast Mr "cut taxes cut spending" wants to hand out - yet again - city cash that no one is asking for...
Thursday, January 31, 2019 Report this
richardcorrente
Answer to Rob Cote' question - "How could you go buy and see the entire crew working when the detour was in effect and you could not go by the site?" :
Because as you made that right hand turn into the detour you could easily see the entire work crew and before the detour was in effect you drove right past them on Sandy Lane. That's how.
How you can say "How can you go by..." and misspell the word "by" and call ME stupid???
Happy Valentines everyone.
Learn how to spell Cote. The "stupidity" that is amazing you is coming from YOU!
GO PATRIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rick Corrente
The Taxpayers Mayor
Friday, February 1, 2019 Report this
richardcorrente
Dear Cat,
Didn't I say "Every time I went by..."?
I thought I did.
Rick
Friday, February 1, 2019 Report this
richardcorrente
Dear wrkvoter,
You say that you "contribute rationally'??
You don't even "contribute" your name!
And please tell the readers when I said I wanted to "hand out - yet again - city cash that no one asked for."
And if I "screwed the city out of taxes", shouldn't someone be suing me for it? Shouldn't there be some record of it? Wouldn't the Beacon do a story on it if it were true? Or are you lying? Again. Right after you called ME "dishonest". Hell! You can't even be honest about giving your own name!
Happy Valentines everyone.
GO PATRIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rick Corrente
The Taxpayers Mayor
Friday, February 1, 2019 Report this
Thecaptain
Corrente,
When you "screw the city out of taxes" they foreclose on your house, put it in tax sale, and you loose the property. That is exactly what happened to you. You lost a waterfront piece of property because you were a tax delinquent PUTZ.
Friday, February 1, 2019 Report this
wwkvoter
And... I already gave my name in another thread.... Henry Krinkle. 154 Hopper Av
Friday, February 1, 2019 Report this
Cat2222
Don't even bother wrkvoter. I gave my email address and name to him multiple times. Never received a single email. He uses it as a weapon because he can't win the argument.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 Report this
richardcorrente
Dear Cat and WwkVoter,
Thank you for speaking from your real names. Your comments deserve greater respect because of it.
Cat, I respect your privacy. That's why I never sent you any e-mails. I won't in the future either.
WwkVoter, AKA Henry Krinkle -
Henry, if you start commenting from your real name, I promise the readers will take you more seriously. Until then, I campaigned for over 1,000 days and spent over $40,000 of my own money to serve the 80,000 taxpayers that are paying the tab. I looked up Henry Krinkle of 154 Hopper Ave. and I can't find one thing (other than criticize my accomplishments) that you have EVER even attempted to do for ANY of the 80,000 taxpayers. Did you even vote Henry? Did you ever do...anything??
Happy Valentines Cat and WwkVoter.
Happy Valentines everyone.
Rick Corrente
The Taxpayers Mayor
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 Report this
richardcorrente
Dear Cat and WwkVoter,
Thank you for speaking from your real names. Your comments deserve greater respect because of it.
Cat, I respect your privacy. That's why I never sent you any e-mails. I won't in the future either.
WwkVoter, AKA Henry Krinkle -
Henry, if you start commenting from your real name, I promise the readers will take you more seriously. Until then, I campaigned for over 1,000 days and spent over $40,000 of my own money to serve the 80,000 taxpayers that are paying the tab. I looked up Henry Krinkle of 154 Hopper Ave. and I can't find one thing (other than criticize my accomplishments) that you have EVER even attempted to do for ANY of the 80,000 taxpayers. Did you even vote Henry? Did you ever do...anything??
Happy Valentines Cat and WwkVoter.
Happy Valentines everyone.
Rick Corrente
The Taxpayers Mayor
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 Report this
richardcorrente
Dear Readers,
Rob Cote is lying...again.
He knows (I even sat with him and showed the court documents to him) that my lender broke R.I. law and I sued them in Federal Court AND WON!!! He also knows the lender was court-ordered to negotiate in "good faith" after that court decision and they DID NOT. That included 6 attempts to evict me so they could negotiate a settlement "in good faith". In all 6 attempts the judge ruled against the lender but the stress was too much for my attorney, George Babcock, who represented me, and over 1,000 other class-action plaintiffs in that case. George tragically, committed suicide. Cote knows this. The very next day after his suicide the lenders attorneys sent the 7th eviction notice to his law office knowing he wouldn't be there to defend me. This dirty trick succeeded. I was evicted because I never got served. Therefore I never knew of the 7th attempt until it was too late. Cote knows all these facts and still decides to ignore them. Cote is a piece of....(well, the readers know). Subsequent negotiations with that lender (one of the big three) have cost them "a ton" of money. I'm not allowed to say who they are or how much I cost them. The court also ordered them to pay all real estate taxes that, naturally, still came out in my name. They did, and they even paid them late so Warwick got MORE tax revenue. I never "screwed the City out of taxes" I never screwed anyone out of a dime. Not a dime! Cote can't make that claim. If you want a laugh just look at how many times his business, "Rob Cote's Pro Divers, Inc." (now defunct) had a revocation notice from the R.I. Secretary of State. I counted eleven. ELEVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ELEVEN!
He lied about my home. Several times.
He lied about my car taxes.
He lied about the taxes I pay (flawlessly) on my 4-unit.
He lied about who I contribute to and how much.
He lied about my campaign against the car tax.
He lied about deciding to move out of Warwick. (even though there are dozens of volunteers that would help him pack!)
He stole my signs, and even admitted it in this newspaper.
He came into my office and flipped me off.
He is the most disgusting person I have ever met.
He is the most disgusting person ANYONE has ever met. (in my opinion)
Stay as far away from this guy as you can.
Happy Valentines everyone.
Rick Corrente
The Taxpayers Mayor
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 Report this