Robbinsdale Plans Work To Reconstruct Water Main, Road Surface Along Lowry Avenue Near Hospital
City crews will spend the summer tearing up and repairing a water main and the road surface along the very southern edge of North Memorial Health’s Robbinsdale Hospital.
Robbinsdale will rebuild the road and water main along Lowry Avenue directly south of North Memorial Health’s Robbinsdale Hospital this summer.
Public Works Director Richard McCoy said the work on Lowry Avenue North between York and Abbott Avenues North will have an impact on the hospital and the surrounding residents, but he hopes the plans they’re making on a city level will help alleviate what stress they can.
“Typically a road construction project involves digging lots of holes, deep holes (and) deep trenches to replace water main and sanitary sewer and storm sewer,” said McCoy. “As you can imagine, there’s a fair amount of operations that happens on this side of their building, so we just have to work in sync with them to make sure they can still get their deliveries and carry out their maintenance and what have you while we replace what’s under the ground.”
Robbinsdale Public Works Director Richard McCoy said the city experienced water main problems along Lowry Avenue last month after activating the new water tower. The main will be replaced this summer.
Aging Water Main
McCoy said the city has experienced problems with the water main along Lowry Avenue already this spring when the new water tower was fully activated.
“That’s just an indication of just how brittle that old pipe can be,” he said. “We want to get it out of the ground before it fails and has a catastrophic failure.”
The city also will do reconstruction work along 41st Avenue North between Railroad and Regent Avenues this summer.
McCoy believes both projects will be wrapped by the end of the road construction season, typically late fall before the snow comes back.
