Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell heads to the SPCA to find a guard dog to keep the riff raff out of his office, but he comes back with a ferret instead. But when the ferret sees Aspell wearing his standard issue city manager fur coat, he rips it to shreds – shreds that spell out a city memo!
Our sediments exactly
Spring hydrant cleaning
The General Services Department’s Highway and Utilities Division began flushing hydrants throughout the city April 20 in order to remove any sediment from water distribution pipes, Aspell writes. So you’ll have to get your sediment somewhere else.
This process will occur for a few weeks throughout Concord to help maintain water quality and check for water pressure. Residents should avoid doing laundry when hydrant flushing is being done in their area, as the flushing may cause low pressure and/or discolored water. Handwashing your clothes in the hydrant water is also discouraged, because that’s just uncouth, man. If discoloration occurs, water customers are advised to run their tap water on cold until the water runs clear. View the upcoming week’s flushing schedule at nh-concord.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/5214 to see if hydrant flushing will be occurring in your area.
Sportsball!
Fields open for business
Now that it finally looks and feels like spring, parks maintenance staff have been busy preparing the city’s athletic fields, track, tennis courts and open spaces for use by high school teams, recreation programs, and other customers, Aspell writes. Wide open spaces continue to only be prepared by The Dixie Chicks.
To date, most fields are open, with the exception of Doane Diamond and (the creatively named) Softball Field A at Memorial Field. We hope to have these areas open early this week, weather permitting.
We ask that users refrain from utilizing the fields if there is standing water on them or if the field is too soft to play on. (If you see water standing, see if you can teach it to do a sit-stay.) This will help minimize damage to the fields. We also encourage park users to implement a “carry in, carry out” trash policy, as this will help reduce staff time for park cleanup as well as disposal costs.
