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Contractor reports underground challenges, city hopes to meet Sept. 5 completion for Northwest Main Street phase
Summary
The city’s construction manager reported crews have completed about two-thirds of sanitary sewer and more than half of storm sewer work on the Northwest Main Street project but have encountered deep voids and utility conflicts that are delaying progress; the contractor is targeting a Sept. 5, 2025 completion.
Colin Watts, construction manager with Manning & Smith Group, updated the City of Geneva council on the Northwest Main Street sewer and street reconstruction project, reporting progress and subsurface challenges that have slowed work.
Watts said crews have installed about 1,954 feet of sanitary sewer (roughly two-thirds of the Sanitary Lane sewer) and about 2,000 feet of storm sewer (a little over half of the planned storm work). He reported 29 sanitary/storm structures installed and lateral connections at about 40% up to the main line between Legal and…
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