Ridgewood NJ, Over the next several days, Ridgewood Water is working hard to complete more than a dozen lead service line replacements on Beechwood Road ahead of the scheduled road paving. Working in collaboration with PSE&G’s contractor, the paving is being rescheduled for the end of next week to provide our crews with enough time to complete all of the service line replacements. The replacements and paving should be completed by Friday August 18th. We thank the residents of Beechwood Road for their patience while we work to rehabilitate these service lines and bring a smoother road surface to this neighborhood, as well as thank PSE&G for collaborating with us to allow this important work to be completed.
The engineering department is moving slow with regarding repaving of the worst roads in the village, they should be paving the worst roads in the village first. It is mid July what is going on. The paving contractor should be paving every single day during the summer , How come they can’t figure this out, what are you gonna start doing paving in September when school opens. I just don’t get it
APRIL 30, 2014 LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014, 2:36 PM BY DARIUS AMOS STAFF WRITER
A number of factors are considered when Ridgewood constructs its annual street paving plan, and the impact of harsh winter conditions is typically represented in the final list of roads slated for repairs. This year, the village intends to resurface several main arteries that were battered by Mother Nature and snowplows just a few months ago.
There are more than 30 jobs listed on the 2014 proposed street paving list, but many residents have expressed disappointment, both publicly and privately, that other roadways in need of repair failed to make the cut. In addition, some homeowners have been irked by the selection process, saying their streets have not been properly treated in nearly 20 years.
Officials contend that the municipality does not have adequate funding and manpower to repave every street in need of repair at once. As a result, the village uses a multi-tiered method to determine which roads wind up on the repaving list.
A list of streets slated for paving is available on the Village of Ridgewood website (ridgewoodnj.net) and is current as of last Wednesday.
In response to the abundance of questions and emails that her office has received, Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld explained how Ridgewood targets streets for its repaving program. The municipality’s first step, she said, is to seek funding from the state.
“We look at the Department of Transportation (DOT), because we get grants from them every year. Those grants are based on certain criteria and they’re based on certain roads,” she said.
For this spring, Ridgewood has received approximately $270,000 in DOT grants to repave South Van Dien Avenue and the Garber Square area.
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