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Friday Slide Show: Pipe Installation
7 July 2023
Running north and south through San Francisco, 19th Avenue is also a segment on Calfornia Highway 1. And at the intersection of Sloat Blvd. (which leads to the zoo), there's been some serious renovation going on.
The Jack and Bore Pipe Installation is checking the sewers and installing 36-inch waterpipes in 48-inch casings beneath the intersection. The whole project (which involves more than this one intersection) will take 27 months and be followed by Caltrans repaving of 19th Avenue.
Here's the project description:
This project will include water main and sewer main replacement and/or rehabilitation, Emergency Firefighting Water System upgrade, street base repairs, curb ramp and bulb-out installation, transit bus bulbs (wider sidewalks at bus stops) and concrete bus pad installation and traffic signal work. Please note, not all blocks will include water main or sewer main replacement work. Also, due to the median which runs along 19th Avenue, most blocks have a sewer main on each side of the block. Depending on the condition of the existing sewer main, we may replace/rehabilitate the sewer main on one side, both sides or if the current line is in good condition, we'll leave the existing one in place.
But the work at Sloat is being suspeded until August after the free Stern Grove Summer concert series has ended. We've always had our priorities straight around here.
When we drove by the other day we noticed the enormous drills used in the project. We promised ourselves we'd take a walk over to the site on the weekend when it was idle to take a few photos.
And so on Sunday with Santigold and Ogi performing in the Grove, we did.
With the earth movers parked along the street, the supplies were laid out on the median strip, making it easy for us to get up close and personal.
Being sewer pipes, this stuff rarely sees the light of day. So you might say this was the urban equivalent of catching a nocturnal animal on safari.
