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Update as of this morning, from our Interim Public Works Director, Jonathon Goldman:
 
Sheet pile installation was completed yesterday before any significant rainfall.  The site was prepared for today’s activity which is primarily the installation of helical anchors that will be drilled under the roadway to tie back the sheet piles.  The helical anchors will pass above the fiber optic cable under the work site, and well below the gas and water mains located on the easterly side of SFD.  Those lines have been marked and will be exposed by vacuum excavation to ensure that they are not so deep as to potentially conflict with the easterly ends of the drilled anchors.  The anchors will not extend past the limits of the public right-of-way. 
 
The steel walers (“C-channel”) delivered for the tie-backs to pull against, and to bolt onto the failed concrete wall, were not what was ordered.  The correct material is being picked up in Stockton and delivered later today or first thing tomorrow (Thursday).  It is anticipated that the sheet pile wall will be tied back and steel plates welded to prevent backfill from being eroded away at the end of the day Thursday or Monday morning.  Because the roadway cannot be open by Christmas, I have asked that no work take place Christmas Eve, Christmas Day or Sunday the 26^th (Kwanzaa).  This will allow the construction workers, who have worked every day since the 13,^th some time for their families, make their work safer when they return, allow our supply chain to catch up, and hopefully allow weather conditions to warm up enough for hot mix asphalt paving to take place during the week of December 27^th through the 31^st.