Pendleton plans work on South Main Street in March

PENDLETON – When winter ends, road work begins. Pendleton Public Works Director Jeff Brown said that motorists will find one project to be disruptive but it is necessary to improve water lines on the 200 and 300 blocks of South Main Street.

“Those two blocks are the only two left with the old cast iron water mains,” Brown said. “They’re four to six inch, I believe, respectively. We’re going to upgrade to eight inch.”

That’s not the only change that will come during the project that is scheduled to begin in March. Brown said that when the buildings along those blocks were built there were no requirements for fire-suppressing water sprinkler systems.

“Part of this project is going to be dropping in valves and pipes into the basements of the buildings.”

He said that preliminary work then would aid second-floor development along Main Street.

“We’re trying to partner with the business owners downtown to get the hard part in through the wall and into the basement,” he said. “Then they can take off from that point as they’re ready to and as they can afford it to put these fire systems in.”

Brown said they hope to have the project including paving completed in April.

Brown and Community Development Director Tim Simons talk about this and other projects on the KUMA Coffee Hour on Jan. 15. The podcast is available at https://omny.fm/shows/coffee-hour-podcast/january-15-city-of-pendleton.

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