The long waited improvements to the curbs in the Chadds Ford Knoll should finally be complete in about a month. Work began on the final phase during the first week of August and workers say it should be finished some time around Labor Day.
Pennsbury Township manager Kathy Howley hopes it’s sooner.
“They started last week and it was supposed to be one month. So I hope they’re finished in three weeks,” Howley said.
Work has been proceeding in stages, she explained. Previously work has been done on the side streets within the development, and now the final stage is working down Constitution Drive toward Route 1.
Crews from Wexcon are replacing the old drainage system first, then will come back to dig up the old curbing and replace that with new curbs.
Residents in the area have been complaining about drainage problems for at least 7 years, Howley said. The delay in getting it all done was cost, she added.
Howley said the drainage problem was due primarily to water pooling up and freezing at intersections in the winter. Residents, she said, were fearful that there would be ice-related accidents, especially at times when school children would be waiting for school buses or when they would be dropped off after school.
Chadds Ford Knoll was built in the 1960s, Howley said, during a time when there was less emphasis on stormwater management. In the beginning there was little concern and no problem, but as time wore on and people landscaped and reconfigured their backyards, drainage problems developed.
About Rich Schwartzman
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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