Detours and traffic delays are expected from Linden Avenue to Westover Park until the end of the month, when subcontractors for the master plan — weather permitting — complete laying five to six inches of asphalt, city officials said.
“We know there’s going to be detours with that type of equipment running up and down the street,” Miamisburg Project Manager Steve Morrison said.
“There’s going to be some flaggers out there and traffic’s going to be disrupted a little bit,” he added. “That’s pretty much normal.”
The master plan is being financed through annual rate increases to the city’s nearly 8,000 customers. Many of the projects are mandated by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
The Riverview area is a focal point of three major projects as the master plan work is approaching the midpoint in a five-year plan.
As a seventh-month project that started in March progressed, residents said traffic and road conditions worsened.
A nearby alley has been “absolutely destroyed because of heavy equipment,” said Riverview resident Robert Lloyd. Residents told Miamisburg officials earlier this month that work also damaged curbs and gutters, but those items have now been repaired, Morrison said.
Lemco Plumbing owner Ed Lemanski said his Riverview business has suffered because of limited access.
“We’ve been highly inconvenienced,” he said. “I have customers that sometimes come in (and) can’t get in the lot. My workmen can’t hardly get in and out of the lot. It’s costing me time (and) money.”
Restoration costs for Riverview are included in the projects’ budget, he said.
The road was in “marginal condition” before the project and the width of the road made the work more challenging, Miamisburg City Manager Keith Johnson said.
“The utility work that we’re doing, there’s no way to do that work without the disruption that we had,” he said. “Both the water and the sewer are in a relatively narrow street.”
The work has involved more than $15 million in projects, Morrison said. They include the Westover pump station and force main; the Riverview water and sewer line; and a $10.4 million effort to build a water softening plant.
The latter project is expected to run to at least mid-2018, Morrison said. But others are expected to be done by November.
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