Falls Township replaced all the sewers in Levittown's Pinewood section. The green area across the street from our house was the materials and equipment storage point for the (12 and still counting) months of the project. On most weekdays, we woke up to the warning beeps from the equipment backing up, noise all day long from the trucks, power shovels, front end loaders, etc. There was constant dirt in the air, and most annoying was the house shaking when the old street surfaces were ripped up. All photos were taken from our yard, inside our house, or from across the street in the storage area.
| Early On, Kids Rolled Some of These Pipes Across the Street in Front of Our House. Later, The Workers Placed the Big Concrete Sewers In Front | ||
| It Wasn't too Bad At First When They Were Working at the Other End of the Section... | ||
| ... But The Equipment Would Still Come and Go All Day Long | ||
| This is Taken on the Weekend From the Equipment Area. Our House is Across the Intersection of Pinewood Drive and Pleasant Lane | ||
| In All the Time We Lived Here, We Appreciated That No One is Across the Street, But at a Time Like This, it Was a Natural Place for Them to Use! | ||
| A Long Line of Trucks Early Some Mornings | Most Activity Was on Our Corner, But There Was Plenty Going On Directly in Front Of Us | |
| There Were Piles Of Everything: Sand, Gravel, Big Stones, and At Times, the Ripped-up Pavement | ||
| The Carrier Dumped Pipes In Front Of Our House, and the Front End Loaders Distributed Them, Here to Pleasant Lane, Our Side Street | ||
| Big Trucks Brought the Material in, and Other Trucks and the Front End Loaders Moved It Around the Section | ||
| Stuff on Our Lawn and Greenspace in Preparation for Doing Pleasant Lane, Our House Is In the Center Photo | ||
| Here Kids are Having Some Harmless Fun, After The Workers Left For the Day Of Course | ||
| Before Doing Pleasant Lane, They Work On Our Corner, Burying a Sewer Line Across Pinewood Drive | ||
| Finally, They Get To Pleasant Lane. The Other Side Sewer Lines and Curbs Were Done First. | ||
| Most Streets in Pinewood Were in Various Stages of Completion. The Reason They Were All Goining at the Same Time Wasn't Obvious to Us | ||
| Before: Our Sidewalk Corner, the Sewer Next To It, and the Two "Tripping Hazard" Sidewalk Blocks That We Had to Pay the Township For! | ||
| The Other Side of Pleasant Lane Was Completed First | ||
| Pinewood Drive in Front of Our House | Pleasant Lane On the Side | The Corner With Our House in the Back |
| "Our" Sewer Has Been Replaced! | An Antique Fire Engine, Now a Water Truck | Curb On the Other Side of Pleasant Lane |
| Replacing the Pleasant Lane Curb Along Side of Our House, Starting At the Corner | ||
| Some Big Equipment Digging Up Pleasant Lane Pavement. It Shook the Entire House For a Couple of Days | ||
| Pleasant Lane Getting the Base Asphalt Layer | ||
| Rolling the Base Asphalt | Tamping the Edges That the Roller Missed | |
| Our Street With the New Curbs & Asphalt Base | Our New Corner Curb | |
| Digging Up Our Sidewalk | This Was Our Sidewalk. The Green Space is Wider and the Street is a Little Narrower | |
| Across Pleasant Lane, A Few Sidewalk Blocks Were Saved. None Were Saved on Our Side! | From the Other End (Tullytown) of Our Street | |
| Our Sidewalk Framing | Pouring Our Sidewalk | All Freshly Poured |
| We Were Glad To See Them Get it Done, as It Stayed Cold for a Few Days, But Only Rain Seemed to Affect Their Progress | ||
| Finally, the Top Layer of Asphalt, The Other Side of Pleasant Lane First, ... | ||
| ... and Then Our Side. These Photos Are From Our Back Yard Looking Across Pleasant Lane | ||
| As Near as We Can Tell, They Seemed to do a Pretty Good Job | ||
| Tape Removed, Walkable! | Filling in Our Green Space | Smoothing It Out |
| Seed & Fertilizer Mixture, I Guess | Two Weeks Later | Two Months Later. All Done? |
| Nope, We Still Have the Work Area Across the Street Because They are Doing Other Streets (and Sections). Now We Get A Dust Shield! | ||
All in all, the workers were businesslike and seemed to work hard, cleaning up after each days work, and appeared to do a real good job in a timely manner. We saw no pattern to the order of sewers replaced, and although our corner is finished, there is still some activity across from our house a year later. Work on neighboring Willowwood and Elderberry is well under way, even though there are still quite a few Pinewood Streets in various stages of (un)completeness.
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