Some Mineola residents will have to go without running water this week as Public Service Enterprise Group moves a village water main to repair an underground power line.
Homes on Roslyn Road between Westbury Avenue and Plymouth Avenue and on Colonial Avenue between Astor Place and Roslyn Road will lose water from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday as PSEG workers re-route the water main around a fault in the power line at the intersection of Roslyn Road and Colonial Avenue, spokeswoman Elizabeth Flagler said.
Village Public Works Superintendent Thomas Rini requested work be limited to those hours so the water shutoff would not affect residents before and after they go to work, he said at Wednesday’s Village Board meeting.
“Customer service and customer satisfaction is our main concern, and if we can limit it it’s better for the customers and we can work during that time period,” Flagler said.
Roslyn Road between Westbury Avenue and Second Street will be closed to traffic during the day Monday through Thursday, but will reopen in the evenings, Flagler said.
PSEG started work May 22 on the New York Power Authority cable, which runs from Sprain Brook upstate to a Long Island Power Authority power station in East Garden City, Flagler said.
Crews found the fault in the cable intersects with the village water main, meaning crews must shut off two water mains and reconfigure pipes to avoid creating a “dead end” in water flow, Rini said. PSEG will cover the cost of the water work, Rini and Flagler said.
The fault has not caused any power outages since it was discovered May 21, Flagler said. PSEG is unsure how long repairs will take, she said, but it aims to finish them “as quickly as possible.” Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss said it could take until July.
The amount of utilities laying beneath Roslyn Road, including water, sewer, electric and phone lines, complicates the project, Rini said.
“It’s going to be a very tedious process to get this done, and it’s very time-consuming — A, to be safe, and B, not to damage anyone else’s facilities,” he said.
Mineola’s engineers reviewed PSEG’s plan for the project, and the water main work required that the village notify the Nassau County Department of Health, Rini said.
He coordinated with PSEG contractors to make sure work would impact residents as little as possible and not create drainage issues, he said.
“I don’t want to slow them down, but I got to make sure our residents and our facilities are taken care of, and I don’t want them to do something with our water main that creates a further problem exacerbating their problem,” Rini said.
