City Evaluating King’s Grant Storm System

City of Virginia Beach, Public Works

The City of Virginia Beach Department of Public Works is evaluating the condition of the storm drain system that serves the King’s Grant neighborhood.  The field crews you may see working represent engineering personnel from Hazen and Sawyer, a contractor of Public Works.  These crews may be observed along storm drainage easements and along the streets where the storm drain system is located.  Work will accomplished from mid-September until the end of October.

Storm Sewer Public Works Notification Map

Click here for a copy of the city notification flyer, with the Public Works point-of-contact.

Kings Grant Road sanitary pump station work reaches a milestone

KGCL, Public Works

IMG_4873Work to construct the below grade (underground) portion of the new sanitary pump station on Kings Grant Road near Sunnybrook Lane is complete. Neighbors may have noticed (and heard) the large steel cofferdam segments being pulled from the ground for the past several days and stacked at the site. These were the temporary walls for the deep hole (approximately 30’ below ground) where the heavily reinforced concrete wet well for sewage collection was built. The placement and removal of these steel segments was a noisy event heard for blocks. It won’t be long before the above ground work begins. The large crane that has been a fixture along the road for the past six months will soon be gone. Work is scheduled to complete near the end of November. Landscaping of the work site and restoration of the Triangle property will be done at that time.

Traffic Detours This Weekend

KGCL, PSA, Public Works, Transportation

Detour signN. Lynnhaven Road will be closed at the Kings Grant Road intersection from Friday night through Sunday night (March 4-6) to complete the sewer pipe installation below the road. Northbound traffic on N. Lynnhaven and Kings Grant Roads must use alternate routes during this period. Southbound Kings Grant and N. Lynnhaven Roads will remain partially open with traffic directed to Virginia Beach Blvd. The intersection will be reopened when work completes.

Update: King’s Grant Road Sanitary Pump Station

City of Virginia Beach, Public Works

As everyone who travels Kings Grant Road between Virginia Beach Blvd and Little Neck Road has seen,the construction work for replacement of the sanitary sewer pump station on Kings Grant Road is finally underway. So is the work to install a new sewer line beneath Kings Grant Road. There are two separate work crews involved, so the contractor changed the sequence of road work in order to avoid interferences between them in the early stages of the project. Road work began near Virginia Beach Blvd and will move north to the pump station. This is a reversal of the original plan which started at the pump station and worked south to Virginia Beach Blvd.

An assortment of issues delayed the start of the project (wet weather, interfering utility lines, and trees), so the contractor is behind schedule at the pump station site. Temporary pump equipment is housed in the large orange containers at the corner of Kings Grant Road and Sunnybrook Lane. These are now on-line and serve to bypass the pump station so that it may be demolished and rebuilt. The large crane will be used to demolish the pump house and the concrete wet well beneath it. The crane will then drive steel sheet piles to create a cofferdam so that a new wet well can be constructed. While the work at this site continues, the sewer line work beneath the road will continue to work its way north.

The portion of the road now being worked is closed to through traffic. Once construction reaches the intersection of Kings Grant Road and North Lynnhaven Road, the contractor will work around the clock during one weekend to get through that area at quickly as possible. You can expect this portion to be the most disruptive to neighborhood traffic flow. Once road work gets north of that intersection, then one lane will remain open on Kings Grant Road the rest of the way. No disruption of school bus routes is expected.

The updated plan for the major chunks of work are:

  • Pump Station Demolition: February ’16 – March ‘16
  • Below Grade Construction: March ’16 – August ‘16
  • Pump Station Construction: July ’16 – January ‘17
  • Sewer Line Installation: January ’16 – April ‘16

The city’s Public Utilities Engineering Division agreed to provide more details (projected dates for each phase of the work) on road closures. That info will be provided when received.

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Update: Kingston Road Sanitary Pump Station

KGCL, Public Works

The Public Utilities Engineering Division of the City of Virginia Beach provided the KGCL with an update on the progress of construction at the Kingston Drive pump station. The wet weather has been a challenge to overcome, but construction is moving along very well. The contractor set up the temporary pumping equipment, demolished the old pump station building, and is preparing to remove the old sewage wet well. A large crane has been set up at the work site. This will be used to remove the below-grade concrete wet well and drive the sheet piles to create a cofferdam that will allow construction of the new wet well. Neighbors should expect noise when the steel sheet piles are driven into the ground to create the cofferdam. The project is still scheduled to complete in November.

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Kingston Drive Sanitary Pump Station Project Begins

Public Works

The contractor chosen by the City to replace the sanitary pump station on Kingston Drive has started work.  Work site perimeter protection (the orange silt barrier) is installed and obvious to residents of the area.  The City provided the following schedule:

Activity                                             Start                                     Complete

Pump Station Demolition             December 15, 2015           January 16, 2016

Below Grade Construction           January 15, 2016                July 16, 1026

Pump Station Construction          July 16, 2016                       November 16, 2016

The contractor will not require an off-site storage area for equipment and materials.  Updates will be provided as available.

Kingston Drive Public Works

Site preparation underway

Update: Kings Grant Road Sanitary Pump Station Replacement Project

Grounds & Maintenance, KGCL, Public Works

Travelers in and out of Kings Grant along Kings Grant Road will have noted the construction fence and equipment now staged in the Triangle property. The City of Virginia Beach gave the contractor its authorization to proceed with the work earlier this month. During December, the contractor will move utilities at the site of the pump station (which is near the intersection of Kings Grant Road and Sunnybrook Lane). This will be followed by installation of temporary services and demolition of the existing building and driveway. Work in the roadway will also begin in December. The big picture looks like this:

Activity Start End
Pump Station Demolition December 15, 2015 February 16, 2016
Below Grade Construction February 15, 2016 June 16, 2016
Pump Station Construction June 16, 2016 December 16, 2016
Construction of New Sewer Main December 15, 2015 April 16, 2016

(Road Work)

Installation of the new sewer main will begin near the pump station and proceed in phases to its tie in to the HRSD main near Virginia Beach Blvd. Please take care while driving near construction area, and pay attention to the presence of heavy equipment, construction workers and temporary road signs.

Click here for the contractor’s master schedule

Kingston Drive Sanitary Pump Station Project To Start

City of Virginia Beach, Public Works, Zoning

The City of Virginia Beach awarded the construction work for replacement of the sanitary sewer pump station located at 728 Kingston Drive to Trident Civil of Virginia Beach.  The contract is approved and the contractor is scheduled to start construction on Monday, November 2nd.  Kings Grant residents near the construction site will receive formal notification of the work from the city this week.  At this time the contractor does not foresee the need for an off-site material staging area.

The existing pump station was built in 1968 and is at the end of its useful service life. It also has capacity limits that could lead to possible sanitary sewer overflows.  In addition to replacing the building, the pressurized sewer main from the building to its tie in with another main on Oxford Drive will be relined to extend the life of the pipe without need for replacement.  Besides the building demolition and construction, impact will primarily be to residents along Berkley Place and Berkley Court.  The contractor will generally work between 7am- 4 pm.  Work is expected to take 10-12 months.

Project updates will be posted here as they are received from the city or the contractor.

Click here for archival correspondence about this project from the City of Virginia Beach to KGCL.

King’s Grant Pump Station Update

City of Virginia Beach, Grounds & Maintenance, Public Works, Zoning

Planned Construction Start Delayed

The city project to replace the King’s Grant Road sanitary pump station is moving ahead but the planned construction start date of early summer was missed.

Overhead utility lines are being replaced.  New poles and new electric wires were installed to move the lines away from the pump station.  The old electric wires remain. No activity has been seen to move the telephone and cable TV wires.

It was recently determined that trees on private property will conflict with the construction. The contractor, Quality Enterprises of Chesapeake, is working with the city to remedy the conflict.

KGCL is in regular contact with the contractor. They expect construction to begin in several weeks.

City to Lease Triangle

Several times during that past year KGCL members were informed about the contractor’s desire to lease the center portion of the triangle property (in front of the 7-11 and Exxon) as a staging area for construction equipment and materials.

Informal polling of KGCL members by email and discussions at our general meetings found the membership strongly in favor of this plan. A deeper discussion of this topic can be found in our mailed newsletters to members.

Over the past two months, the proposed lease arrangement has changed. The city will lease our property for rather than the contractor.

The change mitigates zoning issues and strengthens assurances that the property will be satisfactorily restored at the completion of work next year.  The draft city lease document contains required protections for KGCL that could not be included in a lease to the contractor.

Further updates will be provided as this project moves forward. Questions and comments should be directed to board@kgcl.org