This is the third year for the project, with an area in east central Hastings that includes about 50,700 feet of sewer line. Work began the week of Nov. 10 and is expected to continue for several weeks, (City of Hastings, Courtesy)
HASTINGS — The City of Hastings is working with the Johnson Service Company of Kearney to video the City’s entire sewer system to take a proactive approach to sewer maintenance.
For this project, the City’s sewer system is divided into 20 subsystems, with one subsystem addressed each year. The project prioritizes areas with the oldest sewer lines within the community, some of which are more than 90 years old.
This is the third year for the project, with an area in east central Hastings that includes about 50,700 feet of sewer line. Work began the week of Nov. 10 and is expected to continue for several weeks.
The northwest corner of the subsystem starts north of 18th Street just east of Baltimore Avenue. The northern edge is 15th Street between Kansas and Minnesota avenues; and along 14th Street between Eastside Boulevard to Pine Avenue. Eastside Boulevard is the eastern edge of the subsystem area between 14th and Seventh streets with the added inclusion to the east of the Heartwell Park neighborhood.
The western edge of the subsystem stairsteps east, first between Webster and Briggs avenues between 18th and 14th streets, along Bellevue Avenue between 14th and Ninth streets; and between Lexington and Burlington avenues between Ninth and Seventh streets east to Eastside Boulevard. Hastings and Colorado avenues are omitted between Seventh and Ninth streets in this subsystem.
Year one of the video project, in fall 2023, looked at an area in southwest Hastings, near Brickyard Park. Around 48,000 feet of sewer line was included in the video inspection with six locations totaling 1,800 feet of sewer line relined with steam-treated fiberglass pipe.
Year two of the video inspection process, in 2024, included an area from Marian Avenue to Burlington Avenue and Seventh Street to Second Street, totaling 51,500 feet of sewer line.
Johnson Service Company crews are working as they move through the project to notify property owners by posting yellow fliers the day before sewer cleaning begins in a specific neighborhood.
