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Old Posted May 27, 2013, 3:33 PM
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Looks like the city is on board for the new development. From the IJ:


The Seneca Way apartment building, left, is rising on the site of the former Challenge Industries building, across from the Gateway Center at the bottom of the East State/Martin Luther King Jr. Street in Ithaca. / SIMON WHEELER / STAFF PHOTO

City to add sewer line at Seneca Way for new construction

5:36 PM, May 26, 2013
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David Hill

ITHACA — Seneca Way, the northern tine of the so-called Tuning Fork intersection immediately east of The Commons, is due for some work in early June for a new sanitary sewer line being constructed under the heavily traveled street.

The city’s Water and Sewer Division plans to install the new sewer line to serve ongoing and expected development there, particularly the Seneca Way Apartments going up on the site of the former Challenge Industries headquarters.

The building was served by the sewer line beneath State/Martin Luther King Jr. Street. But the route where the sewer line serving the new building would have to go is blocked by a 16-inch water main along Seneca Way.

“They needed a 6-inch connection from the building and there’s no way we can get a 6-inch pipe over or under the 16-inch water supply line,” said Erik Whitney,assistant superintendent of public works for water and sewer.

Design options are limited because the sewer line uses gravity for flow and has to go straight downhill.

“It’s not like you can put dips or bends in a sewer lateral pipe,” Whitney said.

The water line beneath State/MLK Jr. Street is the main feed from the city’s water treatment plant up the hill on Six Mile Creek, and moving it it would have meant interrupting service to most of the city, Whitney added.

So the new sewer line will extend from Seneca Street, where the sewer line was rebuilt a few years ago. It proved the most cost-effective solution, and the new sewer line can also serve any new development across Seneca Way from the apartments, Whitney said.

The work is expected to start the first week of June and last about three weeks. Seneca Way will likely be closed during the day for that period, with one lane possibly open at night. A detour likely will send westbound traffic on State/MLK Street to Aurora Street.

Meanwhile, the Seneca Way apartments project is on schedule for completion later this year, according to Bryan Warren, whose company, Warren Real Estate, is a partner in the project with Newman Development of Vestal.

Challenge, which supports employment for people with disabilities and other work barriers, now has headquarters at 950 Danby Road.


Here's the link:

http://www.ithacajournal.com/article...w-construction
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