Daily Details

Over the past several days Community Development has been ironing out details with King Bee Equipment, the contractor for the 8 mound systems and the contractor for finishing up Phase I installations. We have been told they will be down here as soon as they can fly their lead construction man in from Florida. Today we are meeting to finalize the hydro seeding requirements and the change order to add blueboard insulation to all the Phase I pods. Even though the results are very preliminary, the more recent temperature monitoring data suggests there may be a high correlation between pod temperature and ambient air temperature, meaning that there is significant heat exchange between the atmosphere and the pods. This means the blueboard insulation should really help keep pod temperatures higher in the winter. Just as a reminder to all remaining phases though, the City has ordered the new AdvanTex tanks to have spray foam insulation over 2/3rds of the system.

We have also been working on the effluent testing requested by the City Council. The DEC finally got a list of their requirements to us last Thursday and we forwarded them on to the independent lab we had contacted. We had not heard back from them as of yesterday but hopefully will make some progress with them today. In the mean time, we are struggling with the construction delay that was caused by the City Council halting the contract award. Several Phase II residents were counting on early summer installs which Community Development has been working toward since January of this year, and now we will need to write them all a letter explaining the delay. To complicate matters, several confirmed Phase II candidates had personal issues come up and have asked to be released from Phase II option 1. The City tries to be as accommodating as possible and the lawyers are still working through the details of what this means, but it may substantially change our contract with Rockwell Engineering even though it hasn’t been awarded yet (see how complicated the details can really get?). Our main hope is that we can work through an agreement that is fair for everyone involved without causing further delay to the remaining Phase II construction. Stay tuned for daily detail updates.