Ebb and Flow

The Septic Blog has been quiet lately because things have been quiet in City Hall lately. Some of you may have noticed King Bee’s workers finished grading & hydroseeding the Phase I installations and then packed up and headed back to Fairbanks for a week. They needed DEC’s approval to construct and Lanning to stake out property lines and important things at their various mound sites. The site engineer, Dave Lanning, had to be at a conference in the lower 48 for the last week, so construction on the mounds began a week later than anticipated. Indeed, even the temperature monitoring data collection was put on hold to give the hydroseeded grass a chance to establish without being trampled and messed up.

Finally, with the rain and fog came a go ahead from DEC and a notice to proceed for King Bee’s men, who left Valdez in a sunny state of mind and returned to a more typical type of construction weather for Prince William Sound (but we aren’t complaining, we needed the rain). Hopefully we still have some warm sunny days left to help construction along. They have been working steadily on the first true mound system of the program on the corner of Wilderness and Whispering Spruce. They plan to move down Whispering Spruce toward Alder for their next construction site. Their schedule has changed since it was last posted, because they need homeowners to move some things in their yards in order to gain access to sites. They are generally going to wherever is most prepared for their arrival. The last we heard they would try to do the two sites on Alder after their first and finish up on Whispering Spruce before heading westward toward Nordic.

Rockwell has their contract documents in order and have asserted they are ready to come to Valdez. We are waiting on DEC’s approval to construct before issuing Rockwell their notice to proceed. We been assured it will be issued very soon. We are as anxious as Phase II residents to see Rockwell down here and working.

On another note, ADEC has decided to do their own effluent testing of all Phase I systems. The city was informed that the state is working with Phase I residents for access to property and expects to be pulling effluent samples this next Monday and Tuesday. Mike Congel, the local AdvanTex maintenance man, has asked that care be taken with the newly graded / hydroseeded areas. He will accompany the DEC on their rounds.

Community Development was not able to get an Option 2 revision on the table for Council to approve this week, we will work hard to have something for them by August 3rd. We also have an Oversight Group meeting scheduled for this Monday, the 27th of July, in Council Chambers. We are discussing the end of Phase I, the progress of Phase II, reviewing the Option 2 details we talked about last Oversight Group Meeting, and the success of the subdivision wide plan.

In any case, the King Bee mound action is picking up again and we expect to have Rockwell down here shortly. We’ll keep you in the loop. Till next time :).