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Rye Brook approves extended hours, parking suspensions for Con Edison gas-main upgrade
Summary
Trustees approved extended construction hours, temporary suspension of alternate-side parking and street staging for Con Edison's planned gas-main replacement on Hillcrest, Woodland Avenue and adjacent blocks; work expected to start around June and last roughly three months.
Rye Brook trustees on Tuesday approved extended construction hours, temporary suspension of alternate-side parking and limited use of village streets for staging to accommodate Con Edison's multi-block gas-main replacement project.
Con Edison representatives told the board the project will replace a low-pressure main with a medium-pressure main on Hillcrest Avenue and parts of Woodland Avenue, Whittemore and adjacent blocks, and could take about three months from the anticipated start in early June. The company requested Monday-through-Saturday work from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (no work on holidays and not during the Port Chester High School July 4 fireworks event) to accelerate the schedule and lessen residents' disruption.
The move matters because crews will install a parallel main, then transfer customers one by one from the old main to the new line in scheduled events that require short outages. Con Edison said full…
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