TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2014 • 14 THAT’S A WRAP FOR MAIN FIX New Water Mains Installed Under Slew Of Kew Gardens Streets by Robert Pozarycki Water should flow fine in Kew Gardens for years to come after the city officially wrapped up a multi-million dollar water main replacement project through the area last week. Conducted by the Department of Design and Construction (DDC) and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the $10.6 million effort replaced more than seven miles of cast iron water mains that the Jamaica Water Supply Company initially installed during the 1930s and 1940s as Kew Gardens was developed. “By upgrading our infrastructure, we are ensuring the public has access to a reliable supply of healthy drinking water, that our firefighters have the water pressure they need to fight fires and that there is adequate supply to allow for continued growth in Kew Gardens,” DEP Commissioner Emily Lloyd said in a statement last Friday, Dec. 12. “Some of the cast iron water mains replaced were over a century old,” added DDC Commissioner Dr. Feniosky Peña-Mora. “Keeping our city’s infrastructure in a state of good repair while being a good neighbor in those communities where we are working are our top priorities.” Queens Borough President Melinda Katz praised the city’s DEP “for its dedication to modernizing our borough’s water infrastructure,” while City Council Member Karen Koslowitz noted that, even though the project “was disruptive and intrusive” at times, it was “necessary” to improve water service in the community. The project area included Metropolitan Avenue between the Jackie Robinson Parkway and 127th Street; Lefferts Boulevard between Kew Gardens Road and 84th Avenue; and various residential side streets connecting one or both of those roadways. In all, 35,000 feet of new mains, ranging from 8 to 12 inches in diameter, were installed below Kew Gardens Streets, serving as the main connection -SEEMAINS ON PG. 61- This Department of Environmental Protection map shows the Kew Gardens streets where water main improvements were made in a recently completed, $10.6 million project. Special Visit With Vets Times Newsweekly • Ridgewood Times City Council Member Eric A. Ulrich, chair of the City Council Veterans Committee, joined seniors from Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens (CCBQ) Ozone Park Senior Center on Dec. 10 to visit the Department of Veterans Affairs at St. Albans Community Living Center in Jamaica to specially deliver hats and scarves to the veterans, just in time for the holiday season and the cold weather of the winter months. SPECIAL HOLIDAY DEADLINE NOTICE With Christmas & New Year’s falling on Thursdays, we are shifting our production deadline and publication dates the last two weeks of December. CHRISTMAS ISSUE: On Newsstands Wednesday, Dec. 24 COPY/CLASSFIED/AD DEADLINE: Noon On Monday, Dec. 22 OFFICE CLOSED Christmas Day, Dec. 25 NEW YEAR’S ISSUE: On Newsstands Wednesday, Dec. 31 COPY/CLASSFIED/AD DEADLINE: Noon On Monday, Dec. 29 OFFICE CLOSED New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, & Friday, Jan. 2 Our Office Closes At 1 p.m. On Dec. 24 AND Dec. 31 OUR STAFF WISHES ALL OUR READERS... Merry Christmas Happy Hanukkah Joyous Kwanzaa and A Happy, Healthy & Prosperous New Year! ORTHODONTICS Adults & Children Invisalign™ Premier Provider Multicolor Mini-Bonded Brackets Ceramic - Clear Braces Diplomate, American Board of Orthodontics GLENRIDGE ORTHODONTIC SPECIALISTS 65-34 Myrtle Ave., Glendale, NY 11385 1-718-381-2965 1-718-386-8728 ©Times Newsweekly 2014 – GLENRIDGE WWW.GLENRIDGEORTHODONTIST.COM Dr. V. Bilello*, Dr. M. Nissenbaum, Dr. P. Bilello, Specialist in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
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