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Town of Chesterton leaf collection more or less on schedule

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By KEVIN NEVERS

At the end of business on Monday, Chesterton Street Commissioner John Schnadenberg figured his leaf crews were about half a day behind schedule, in what’s likely to be the “heaviest week” so far of the season.

So Schnadenberg reported to the Town Council at its meeting later in the day.

His crews are working 10-hour days and, if the rain forecast for Thursday comes to pass, they’ll work on Saturday too, to stay on schedule.

Chestnut Hills Sign

In other business, Schnadenberg took a minute to comment on the sign at the entrance to the Chestnut Hills subdivision off South Fifth Street. Chestnut Hills, he noted, is one of the older subdivisions in town and the sign has seen better days. And perhaps sooner rather than later the sign will have to be repaired or simply removed.

But, as Schnadenberg emphasized, “the sign is not town infrastructure,” it wasn’t erected by the town and it’s not the town’s to maintain. On the contrary, the Chestnut Hills homeowners association put up the sign years ago and still has responsibility for it--if, that is, the homeowners association still exists.

Schnadenberg said that he will endeavor to ascertain whether the subdivision’s HOA is active or has long since gone dormant.

Sixth Street

Sewer Repair

Meanwhile, Town Engineer Mark O’Dell reported that Grimmer Construction Inc. was retained last week on an emergency business to replace a failed sanitary sewer line on Sixth Street.

Approximately 140 feet of line south of Jefferson Ave. were replaced.

O’Dell added that the road cut has been patched but that this stretch of Sixth Street will not be re-paved this year, as Indiana-American Water Company is scheduled to excavate it all over again in 2016 as part of a water-line project.

Snow Ban

At Schnadenberg’s request, members voted unanimously to put this winter’s parking “snow ban” into effect, at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Nov. 13.

Under the snow ban, motorists are prohibited from parking on the following roadways in the Downtown between 12 and 8 a.m. during or after snow falls of two inches or more:

* South Calumet Road from Porter Ave. to the Norfolk Southern railroad grade-crossing.

* Broadway from South Calumet Road to Sixth Street.

* Second and Third streets from Broadway to West Indiana Ave.

The parking ban is intended to make snow-plowing easier and more effective.

“We don’t want to pay to pave it this year and have it all ripped up next year,” O’Dell said.

 

Posted 11/10/2015

 
 
 
 

 

 

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