Completion of the Stockton Avenue Rehabilitation Project is targeted for May 2022.

Senior Civil Engineer Sarah Collins noted that at Tuesday’s Ripon City Council meeting.

Pending delays due to wet weather, she indicated surface demolition is expected to start this month.

Stockton Avenue is currently undergoing complete road reconstruction, from Second Street to Doak Boulevard.

Besides the underground utility, this well-traveled street will feature concrete pavers, new streetlights and six-foot sidewalks, to name a few.

D.A. Wood Construction was awarded the project back in February for $4.7 million – funding being made possible via RSTP Grant, Measure K Regional Arterial, Water Enterprise Capital, Sewer Enterprise Capital, and Stormwater Enterprise Capital.

Change orders including the most recent one – Changer Order No. 6 – was “not to exceed $11,351 to adjust catch basins to eliminate conflicts with a Modesto Irrigation District electrical line and PG&E gas transmission line,” said Collins in her report.

A catch basin is a cistern that can be found at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer and is designed to catch and retain matter.

Funding will come out of the Measure K Grant. Total cost is at about $5.2 million.

Collins noted that during construction, a conflict between the planned catch basin located at the Ripon Manufacturing Company frontage road was in conflict with an existing electrical utility conduit at MID.