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CALVIN R. PECK, JR.
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Morning Star (Wilmington, NC)
January 25, 2003
Town is unhappy with road patches
Author: Sam Scott
Disappointed with subsiding pavement, the town of Carolina Beach wants improvements to its
$4.8 million sewer replacement project, Town Manager Calvin Peck said this week.
After replacing miles of aging sewer lines, the town ordered the torn-up roads repaved last year,
Mr. Peck said.
Because the damage from the sewer work was so extensive, the town opted to build new surfaces
on some roads, he said. For the most part the project went well.
But on Carolina Beach Avenue North, which runs north from the Boardwalk, the road is patchy
and has sunk in certain places. The contractor, T.A. Loving Co., has filled the holes, but that has
left an unsatisfactory result, Mr. Peck said.
"What we have now is a new road that's been patched," he said. "We don't have a new road. We
don't have the product that we were expecting."
Mr. Peck said the town had a meeting with the contractor this week to discuss what needed to be
done. In accordance with the contract, the town has retained $400,000 of the amount due,
pending acceptance of the project, he said.
He said he was unsure what the solution would be, but he expected a resolution.
"We expect them to live up to their obligations," he said.
Calls to T.A. Loving Co. were not returned.
The project is similar in cost to the ongoing construction of the municipal complex, which will
extend town hall, adding a visitors' center and a new home for the town's Police Department.
Originally scheduled for April, that project is now slated for completion in the fall. The delay is
not expected to cost the town any more money, Mr. Peck has said.
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