It may look like the mall rebricking is way ahead of schedule, but, alas, it’s not.
Construction workers this morning are in the process of digging up bricks on the Mall to fix a leaking water line. They started right in front of the C-VILLE office and will expand the operation a few yards.
Technically, workers are inserting 1-inch pipelines into the existing 2-inch pipelines, a much easier task than completely replacing the existing pipelines.
As for the aged bricks, they will be brought to the city yard to be ground and recycled. For the time being, the holes will be covered with concrete, to be jackhammered up again when the “real” rebricking begins in January.
Does pouring concrete only to dig it up again seem wasteful? Workers say no. What do you think?
