Milford chronicle., 1957-01-11
Highway Dept, City
Developing Streets
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reconstruction Causey Avenue as
the connecting highway between
Walnut Street and Lakeview Ave-
nue..
South East Front Street from
Walnut Street TO Fisher Avenue,
the Highway Department previous
ly having taken over this street
from Fisher Avenue to the Reho-
both Highway. South East Second
Street, from Walnut Street to the
Rehoboth Highway.
Completed in this area during
the past year has been the resur-
facing of the northern section of
Walnut Street and the approach
to milford along the highway lead
Jig to Harrington as well as a por-
ion of South Walnut Street lead
ing into Milford along Route 113.
Now in progress is a large drain
age improvement project in the
vicinity of Walnut Street and the
Rehoboth Highway which is design
ed to provide for the removal of
storm water from this area.
This project provides for the
storm water in that area to be car
ried in pipes along N. e. Tenth
Street for 1900 feet and then it
moves through open country with
760 more feet of pipe.
This sewer pipe will bring the
storm water to a ditch that will
be constructed 1900 feet to reach
a culvert under the Rehoboth high
way where it will join an existing
ditch that will cary the water
through an existing culvert under
N. E. Front Street and on to the
Mispillion River.
Following the installation of the
storm water sewer along n. Il.
Tenth Street, it is planned to re-
surface and improve that street. :
Also under contract, but the
work is not expected to get under
way until spring, Is the improve
ment of the existing earth road ex-
tending from Wilkerson Terrace,
which is located east of the inter-
section of N. E. Front Street with
the Rehoboth Highway.
A part of this project is within
the city. The existing roadway will
be reshaped and graded, with
proper drainage installed and then
will be given a surface treatment,
twenty feet in width.
AS planned now all of the future
street improvements to be made
here by the Highway Department
will be on the curb to curb basis.
In addition to the streets in Mil
ford that have recently been taken
over by the Highway Department
for maintenance and Improvement,
there are some other streets that
the Department has handled for
several years.
Then also it is anticipated by
both the present Milford city ad-
ministration and the Highway De-
patment that additional streets in
Milford will be taken over by the
Department on the same basis IN
the immediate future years.
It was explained that while no
set pattern has been provided for
this work, it is now expected that
some street improvements in the
Milford area will be provided in
each bi-annua1 program prepared
by the Highway Department.
The acceptance of these streets
into the State highway system will
mean that the State Highway De-
1 partment will be responsible for
their maintenance and ccndition.
The normal pattern followed in
accepting streets as part of the
highway system is that the street
serve as a connecting travel artery
between streets that lead from the
city to a highway or are streets
/ that serve traffic between two
highways.
All of the streets in Milford tha
have become a part of the State
Highway system, and are there
fore a part of the system for main
tenance and improvement, come
within these requirements.