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Swanson Pickle Lift Station and Force Main

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Swanson Pickle Lift Station and Force Main
Construct a force main and lift station to convey flow from Swanson Pickle Company to the Southeast Regional Force Main.

Access/Traffic: Local traffic will be maintained during pipeline construction. There may be times when your driveway is inaccessible because pipeline construction is occurring in front of your house or driveway restoration is taking place. The contractor will work with you ahead of time and will make special access arrangements with you if needed. Shoulder closure of Heights Ravenna Road is anticipated during pipeline construction.

Mail: Mailboxes that interfere with pipeline construction will be temporarily relocated so that mail service can be maintained during construction. If your mailbox needs to be temporarily relocated, the contactor will inform you of where it has been moved to and when they anticipate it will be returned to its original location.

Garbage Pickup: The contractor will work with you and your waste hauler to maintain service throughout construction. If pipeline construction interferes with your waste hauler’s ability to pick up your garbage, the contractor will temporarily move your garbage bins to a central location and return them to the end of your driveway following trash pickup.

Contact

Prein&Newhof Office
Will Thies, PE
(616) 364-8491
wthies@preinnewhof.com

Contractor
Jackson-Merkey Contractors
(231) 728-9344

Muskegon County
(231) 724-3440

November 21, 2025

Anticipated work activities for the coming week:

  • Startup is scheduled for December pending utility connections
November 14, 2025

Work completed/in progress:

  • Drive paving and partial restoration

Anticipated work activities for the coming week:

  • Panel wiring
  • Generator and sampler installation
  • Startup is scheduled for December pending utility connections

 

November 3, 2025

Work completed/in progress:

  • Access drive grading and aggregate base
  • Control panel installation and electrical inspection

Anticipated work activities for the coming week:

  • Sampler enclosure installation
  • Electrical equipment wiring – Potential access drive paving

 

October 17, 2025

Work completed/in progress:

  • Finished conduit and poured equipment pads

Anticipated work activities for the coming week:

  • Finish grading and aggregate base placement for driveway
  • Installation and wiring of control panel

October 10, 2025

Work completed/in progress:

  • Piping and valves installed and successfully leak tested
  • Gravity sewers successfully air tested
  • Driveway culvert installed
  • Conduit installation started

Anticipated work activities for the coming week:

  • Remaining conduit installation
  • Equipment pad pours
October 1, 2025

Work completed/in progress:

  • Wet well, valve chamber, manholes, and gravity sewer installed.
  • Valve chamber cored, piping and valve installation started.

Anticipated work activities for the coming week:

  • Continue installing lift station equipment.
  • Connect to existing force main and test piping.
  • Prepare for pouring equipment pads.

September 5, 2025

** No road closures currently***

Anticipated work activities for the coming week:

  • Lift Station construction is anticipated to start late September.
August 26, 2025

Anticipated work activities for the coming week:

  • Jackson-Merkey will be offsite until September, when lift station construction will begin.
  • Jackson-Merkey will continue watering new grass seed.
August 8, 2025

** No road closures currently***

 

Work completed/in progress:

  • Force main has been pressure tested, and structures have been installed.
  • Restoration complete along Heights Ravenna Rd.

Anticipated work activities for the coming week:

  • Jackson-Merkey will be offsite until September, when lift station construction will begin.
  • Jackson-Merkey will continue watering new grass seed
July 14, 2025

**Heights Ravenna Rd between Moorland Rd and Ravenna Rd is closed. Heights Ravenna Rd will be reopened to traffic by Thursday, July 17***

 

Work completed/in progress:

  • Installed maintenance structures along force main.
  • Complete Swanson Pickle driveway restoration.
  • Began restoration efforts.

Anticipated work activities for the coming week:

  • Complete installation of maintenance structures.
  • Pressure test installed force main.
  • Continue restoration.