WPCNR MAIN STREET LINE. By John F. Bailey, August 17, 2004: Hanging out at Zanaro’s Monday at his TNT Ceremony, Louis Cappelli added information about his upcoming housecleaning project: rehabbing White Plains' infrastructure by relining the Main Street sewer, according to White Plains Department of Public Works specifications.  Cappelli told WPCNR that he has hired a contractor to reline the sewer at a cost of $130,000, and that work would begin “in 3 to 4 weeks.”

“The sewer doesn’t really affect anything right now. We made an agreement with DPW (White Plains Department of Public Works), and Commissioner (Joseph) Nicoletti. The Commissioner of the DPW actually wrote the spec for us so we know we got it right. We got it about two weeks ago from the city, forwarded it to our contractor who’s going to be doing the work, so he knows exactly what he’s going to be doing.”

City Selected Firm to Do the Work. Mr. Cappelli Pays.

Cappelli said the firm is going to be Entech, who has done work for the city Department of Public Works previously. “Public Works is familiar with them, Cappelli said. “They’re going to be doing the work, probably in 3 to four weeks.”

Cappelli said, “There’s no rush on it because 221 hasn’t started yet, and the North Tower’s just filling, there’s only a hundred people in there. I don’t think it’s going to take more than a month to do.”

The SuperDevoloper allowed that there would be minor traffic disruptions on Main Street. “We’re going to have to have some traffic signalization, some redirection with public safety. I don’t think it’s going to cause too much of a disruption because they’re going to do it under the ground.”

Well, You Place a Piece of Plastic in the Pipe, and it Runs Smoother. Commissioner of Public Works Joseph Nicoletti  on the night of January 16, 2004, introducing the sewer lining solution for the Main Street Sewer to the Common Council. It was at this meeting that Commissioner Nicoletti proposed  "The Nicoletti Bypass" for 221 Main Street to handle what he foresaw as effluent overload in the city Main Street Sewer, if both projects, City Center and Renaissance Square tied in to the Main Street Sewer. Photo, WPCNR News Archive.

Encountered in the Zanaro’s  crowd, Commissioner of Public Works, Joseph Nicoletti said he did not yet have a security clearance from the Mayor’s Office to discuss the details of the relining procedure with WPCNR, though WPCNR has requested an interview on the relining procedure.

Las Vegas Believes in Lining.

Procedures of sewer lining in Las Vegas conducted by Barnard Construction of Bozeman, Montana, consisted of a placing what officials described as putting a sock in a pipe, according to the Las Vegas Sun. A year long city project to replace the 2-mile long deteriorated Charleston Boulevard sewer in that city, was executed in just 4 weeks at a savings of $8 to 10 Million, costing $5 Million.

In 2002, Las Vegas lined a mile-long section pipe under its Ogden Street in just two weeks at a cost of $500,000.

Las Vegas believes so much in sewer lining as an alternative to pipe replacement they are planning a 4-mile lining project for their Sahara Avenue sewer that runs from Las Vegas Boulevard to Arden Street at a cost of $2.6 Million.

Las Vegas is using the relining technique to rehab its aging sewers (most of which are about 50 years old), to avoid a repeat of the Caesars Palace sewage mess that occurred in February of this year when an unlined concrete sewer pipe collapsed, and spilled 2 million gallons of raw sewage, a portion of it in the Caesars Palace parking lot.

A Las Vegas engineer said that when concrete pipes were first used in the 1950s, it was not known that sewage tended to deteriorate concrete pipes.

The Main Street Sewer line is a distance of 2 blocks, about a quarter of a mile and, Mr. Cappelli says will cost $130,000, which he will pay.