City contractors will be on Mentelle Park for the next couple of months repairing and replacing damaged storm and sanitary sewer lines. The street was built in 1905.
Sally Lambert-Warfield, legislative aide to our late Councilman Jake Gibbs, reports that sanitary sewer line segments highlighted in yellow on this satellite image of the south end of Mentelle Park will be dug up and replaced. Contractors think other sanitary sewer repairs can be made without surface digging.
The scope of work on storm sewers will have to be determined on-site, project managers told Lambert-Warfield, because collapsed lines have made it difficult to assess their condition with video cameras. However, project managers think the work would be close enough to the sanitary sewer lines to avoid further impact on the street.
Project managers told Lambert-Warfield that the contractor, Leak Eliminators, will begin notifying neighbors when they have an exact start date for the work.
I will send out an update when I have more information.