A Municipal Fiber to the Home Network for Charlemont Massacusetts
Information about Charlemont Connect activities related to the Long Bridge railroad crossing.
TriWire’s been working on the railroad, all the live long day on Friday. Conduit is now in place over the tracks at the Long Bridge railroad crossing and the Tower Rd. railroad crossing! Completing these public way crossings is a project milestone worth celebrating.
Comments closedCharlemont Municipal Fiber Network
Select Board Status Report
November 1, 2020
Summary
Verizon has now approved 14 licenses (out of 17), with just a few poles left on the other applications. This remains the main schedule driver. We will start the construction of the distribution network as soon as possible; our conservative estimate is April 1, 2021. We have completed all path preparation projects except Warner Hill Road, which should be complete in November. Construction of the network equipment room is complete; electronics could start being installed later this year. The project remains on budget. The first tranche of town borrowing for $500,000 is expected to close on November 10, 2020.
Make-ready is underway at the Long Bridge crossing! National Grid is working steadily preparing the utility path for our final design for crossing the railroad tracks at a public way. This approach will save almost $12,000 annually in lease payments and the costly insurance required by the railroad for utilizing the existing utility path aerial right of way.
Comments closedCharlemont is modifying some small portions of the distribution network design to avoid some expensive railroad track crossings to make it cheaper to operate the fiber network.
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