Description

Since the sewer separation project was done several years ago (but not before then) the pavement on the northerly side of Saginaw from Elm to the right-angle turn/corner in the street (and a bit farther) has been gradually sinking, with cracks, potholes, and other symptoms. Those symptoms probably include the difficulties that have led to extensive pavement markings and signs indicating reconstruction of drains, etc., at the corner this coming week.

Within the last couple of weeks, there have been increasingly clear signs of the pavement sinking out from under the sidewalk (as shown in the picture) with the sidewalk cracking and failing. That, too, has been going on gradually since the sewer separation project was completed -- and has been aggravated by trash disposal trucks occasionally driving on that sidewalk -- but the problems have dramatically increased from cracking to pieces falling off in the last few weeks.

Can the city at least take a careful look at that whole stretch of Saginaw and what can be done about what is apparently the underlying problem of the street being inadequately rebuilt after the sewer separation while the work on the drains, etc., in the corner is being done?