Crews should be wrapping up work on the C.O. Project on Miracle Drive over the next few days and shifting focus to Division Street.
Edna City Manager Gary Broz said Tuesday morning that drainage pipe has been laid, the road base has been compactedand set, and the paving company should be laying fresh asphalt this week.
“I drove it this morning and it was very smooth, very easy, very, very good,” Broz said. “What they’ve got so far has set up well.”
In addition, work will continue at the corner of Miracle Drive by the Edna ISD bus barn as the start of school approaches.
“I know there’s going to be problems with the bus barn, that corner, because we have to pour concrete there and it’s going to take a little bit to get that done (and cured),” Broz said, but added that stadium access should not be affected.
Other aspects of the project either currently under way or about to begin include laying about 100 feet of drainage pipe on Foxglove Drive at the cul-de-sac by Miracle Drive; digging out pavement at Progress Street and Division Street near Edna Junior High and putting in large concrete drainage boxes to connect pipes coming from different directions; working on Gayle at The Meadows subdivision; and getting the sidewalks before school begins.
Once the work on Miracle is finished, the contractor will shift to Division Street, Broz said, since the materials needed for that part of the C.O. Project are here and ready.
While he would have preferred to see all parts of the project farther along at this point, there’s nothing you can do about the weather, he said.
“We had about a month of rain outs we had to deal with, and everybody did well with those,” Broz said. “That’s the way it goes.”