Government & Politics
Intervale Sewer Project Messy & So Late that Road Repaving Not Till Spring
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The drainage sewer project in the area of Intervale and Abbey roads was originally due to be completed in September, but water mains are still on the side of some roads, and the project isn’t expected to be complete until sometime this January, a police official said. By Halloween, the pipes need to be in the ground, off-site or “made safe,” town officials have told the contractor, Grasso Construction of Norwalk — or the Darien Department of Public Works will move them at the contractor’s expense so that they don’t pose a hazard to trick-or-treating children, according to Darien Police Capt. Donald Anderson.
“The people who live there have just suffered so much,” said J. Paul Johnson, chairman of the Darien Police Commission at its meeting Wednesday. “The whole thing, in my mind, has just been mishandled, either by the contractor or others.”
Anderson said that at a meeting with the contractor last week: “[Town Public Works Director] Ed Gentile and I were very firm with the contractor that we were not happy with the safety aspect.