MAYBE YOU EXPECTED SOMETHING DIFFERENT? – The start of repairs last week to the deteriorating retaining wall at Pottsgrove Middle School, North Hanover Street, Pottstown PA, isn’t a sexy subject, but it is proving to be expensive. The district is paying at least $381,000 to fix the wall (top left) and some supporting pilasters (top right) that have been damaged by water seepage during the past 10 years. Business Administrator David Nester on Monday (June 27, 2011) told the Board of School Directors its contractor had already made “significant progress” by removing the wall’s brick veneer and protective railing. Its concrete foundation is “structurally in tact and stable,” Nester said, although rust from the previously unsealed railing and other damage (below) was evident. Some structural steel components may need to be replaced, he added. Bricks and mortar for the replacement veneer (bottom) are already on site.
Related:
- Stripped, Naked And Worked Over At Pottsgrove MS
- Pottsgrove Board Awards MS Retaining Wall Bid, Others
- Pottsgrove Calls For Bids In MS Wall Repair Project
- Retaining Wall Tops Pottsgrove List Of Needed Repairs
- Pottsgrove MS Retaining Wall Needs ‘Significant’ Repair
Related (to the Pottsgrove Board of School Directors’ June 27 meeting):
- Stripped, Naked And Worked Over At Pottsgrove MS
- Of 7 Final Budget Choices, Pottsgrove Landed In Middle
- Pottsgrove OKs Final Budget: 1.8% Tax Hike, About $74
L-O-V-E-D your headline Joe.
Submit it for a contest. And if you don’t win, I’ll beat the judges!
Evan, thanks very much. It’s no fun if we can’t have fun!
Evan stole my thunder… That is definitely an attention grabbing headline!
Title although catchy doesn’t address why the original contractor is not held accountable for this costly repair work. Before students even started to fill the halls of that school the leaching was underway. You had to be blind not to notice it. Where is/was the oversight? The same can be asked about the capping outside of the Art wing of the HS. Again the ensuing damage was evident shortly after the contractors packed up their tools. I hope someone has this covered while Ringing Rocks Elementary is being built. I’d hate to be on the hook for even more costly repairs decades before they are needed.
Oh BTW, any chance the hill will be cut? It makes the place looked abandoned.