Dallas project manager outlines multiple summer construction projects, Hawthorne sewer outreach and repave plans

Michael Piers, the city’s project manager, briefed the Public Works committee on June 23 about a slate of projects across Dallas, including completed park work, new trails, sewer lining, waterline replacement and school-area sidewalk and paving work.

He said Lone Oak Park is complete, Forester Creek Trails construction will begin this week with removal and replacement on the south side of the creek and a new trail to the Japanese Garden, and that the cured-in-place sewer-lining project was finished on several streets to restore pipe integrity without reducing capacity.

Nut graf: The project manager presented multiple simultaneous public-works efforts meant to address infrastructure (water and sewer), active transportation (sidewalks and safe routes to school) and parks, while also balancing resident…