This summer, Plainfield Charter Township will be extending the Shared Use Pathway network on Jericho Avenue and on Airway Street.
The section on Jericho Avenue will extend the pathway from Kroes Street at Rockford High School north to make connection to the White Pine Trail. The new pathway will be on the west side of Jericho Avenue.
The section on Airway Street will connect Hunsberger Avenue, near Northview High School, east to Plainfield Avenue on the south side of the street.
The Contractor, Al’s Excavating, Inc. of Hamilton, MI, anticipates starting work on Monday, June 12, after both schools are out.
Prein&Newhof will have personnel in the field.
Scott Post, PE
Project Liaison
(616) 485-0281
Carlee Thompson, EIT
On-Site Contact
(218) 398-0554
Al’s Excavating, Inc.
Office: (269) 751-5158
Plainfield Charter Township
Bill Fischer, Community Development Director
(616) 364-1190
This week, crews continued to complete the remaining tasks on Airway Street and Jericho Avenue. Restoration efforts and concrete approach were completed along several sections.
Next week, weather permitting, they will pave the remaining sections along Jericho to the Rogue River Bridge and continue the seeding and restoration efforts along the pathway corridor. Thanks for your continued caution and attention to vehicle speed along this stretch!
This week, pathway progress continued on the north end of the Jericho Avenue project. Crews continued to remove existing material and install the gravel sub grade. They will install concrete driveways and curbs yet this week.
Next week, they hope to finish the remaining concrete work and, if the weather permits, they will schedule the paving on the remaining sections of pathway to the bridge.
On Airway Street, the crews plan to be back out at the beginning of the week to begin the restoration work in front of the KIA property. They also anticipate that they will have the paving contractor out by the end of the week to finish paving on Airway Street.
This week, crews from Al’s Excavating have continued trail construction along Jericho Avenue. They resumed the excavation process and pathway grading work.
With haul trucks moving excess material and using the roadway, crews are working to keep traffic safe and may temporarily close lanes of traffic to allow equipment to access the site. We appreciate your patience with this process.
Next week, crews will be onsite for both projects. On Airway Street, they plan to pave the remaining sections of asphalt at the beginning of the week, followed by restoration work.
The concrete crews will also be out on both Airway and Jericho to finish ADA ramps and pour concrete driveways on Jericho.
This week, crews were back out on both Airway Street and Jericho Avenue despite the fall rainy weather!
Several of the remaining tasks on Airway Street were completed this week. While paving, sign installation, and pavement marking remain, they hope to have these finished within the next week or two as well.
Crews were also hard at work on Jericho Avenue preparing the path for top course paving, which took place on Wednesday. The rest of the week, crews continued to work on the restoration efforts and prepare for the next section of construction. Next week, crews will be back out on Jericho to begin the pathway grading and construction processes north to the Rogue River bridge!
This week, crews continued to work on the restoration efforts along Jericho Avenue. They placed the top soil and cleaned up the restoration areas and project staging areas. They also installed several hundred feet of mulch blanket to help keep the slopes stable in the upcoming rain events.
We were also able to finally resolve the remaining utility conflicts and will be able to continue with the trail construction processes as soon as possible.
With this week’s weather delays, the paving scheduled for the end of this week has been pushed to next week.
Progress on Jericho Avenue this week included final grading and HMA paving from Kroes to just north of Peter Creek Drive. They also adjusted the fire hydrants to finish grade and began working on restoration areas.
Next week, crews will be working on cleaning up the topsoil and staging areas from this portion of the pathway, ahead of a tentative top course paving date of next Friday.
Last week on Jericho Avenue, crews from Al’s Excavating continued to prepare the southern section of the pathway for paving while the utility companies worked to relocate their utility conflicts. The crews installed over 1000 feet of subgrade and aggregate base along this stretch, as well as starting the driveway removals and preparing them for the path to come through.
This week, crews will finish the concrete and HMA driveway removals and begin installing the storm sewer on the north end of the project.
This week, crews focused on continuing construction along Jericho Avenue. The crew from 28 Specialties has finished placing block for all of the large block retaining walls! They will be back early next week to complete the final construction processes and clean up. In the meantime, the earthwork crews will be working to finalize the pathway grading and prepare for pavement by the end of next week.
Next week, the crews plan to remove existing surface on all driveways south of Peter Creek Drive and prepare gravel/asphalt driveways for pathway pavement. Al’s Excavating will also begin working on the storm sewer construction north of the Rogue River. They will start on the south end and construct storm sewer north to the existing enclosed sewer near the White Pine Trail.
Last week, work on Airway Street was pretty much wrapped up with hydroseeding completed. The remaining work on Airway is at the KIA Dealership as the contractor is waiting for the sprinkler system to be relocated out of the right of way. As soon as this is complete, Al’s Excavting can return and finish up this section as well.
On Jericho Avenue, Al’s Excavating continues to work hard on the final retaining wall and placing the gravel base from Kroes Street to Peter Creek Drive. They hope to be ready to pave this section by the end of the week. In addition, next week crews will move to the north side of the project where they will start work on the storm sewer north of the Rogue River.
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