Work at gas regulator site on schedule
Permanent perimeter fencing is expected to be installed this week at the controversial Washington Avenue gas regulator site, a utility spokesman said.
John Maserjian, a Central Hudson Gas and Electric Co. spokesman, said work at the site is on target.
“The project is on schedule,” Maserjian said in an email. “The piping assembly is completed and installed, and the perimeter
fencing will be put into place beginning this week.”
Maserjian said the next step would follow later this week.
“Next, the fencing surrounding the pipe assembly will be installed later this week or early next week, and tree planting and landscaping is expected to begin next week,” Maserjian said.
In late July, company officials had said that work to install the new gas regulator, located on Washington Avenue and Emerson Street, had begun.
Denise Doring VanBuren, vice president of
public relations for Central Hudson, had said that crews had made good progress despite recent rain.
The new regulator station, on what had been a vacant lot, will replace existing apparatus on nearby Emerson Street that was built in 1930. The new station will consist of lines that come out of the ground and go through equipment designed to balance the pressure of natural gas running to about 5,100 customers in the area.
The general contractor for the project is Shaun B. Kalba Enterprises.
During the review of the
project, neighbors raised concerns about the safety of the new station, its impact on the community and property values, and noise it could generate.
A separate, unrelated project to replace aging natural gas mains in the same area is expected to start in September.
Maserjian said this week that project is still on time.
“The separate project to replace aging natural gas mains in the same area is expected to start in September, and the natural gas distribution system will be connected then to the regulator station.”