“Killing two birds with one stone” is an appropriate analogy for the road construction currently underway on Stoneridge Drive in North Pleasanton. By the beginning of September, Stoneridge Drive from Johnson to Hopyard will not only be another beautifully landscaped, well-lighted six lane road, it will also have a new pipeline running underneath it.

The Stoneridge Drive improvement project is a 2.8 million project paid for by the developers of Hacienda Business Park to be reimbursed by the North Pleasanton Improvement District. It calls for the road improvements along Stoneridge Drive, including landscaping, medians and street lights. In addition, a new pipeline for the Pleasanton sewer system has been included in the plans and is being added as part of the improvement program for the City of Pleasanton’s sewer system. The expansion is part of the master plan for North Pleasanton and has been in the works since last summer.

“We did an analysis to provide better sewer service to North Pleasanton and determined that we could best serve that are by adding more capacity in a new pipeline which would run parallel to the existing trunk line,” explains Grace Chow, a project engineer with the waste water planning firm of Lowry & Associates in Pleasanton.

The current line, the East Amador Trunk Sewer Line, starts at the treatment plant near Johnson Road and follows Inglewood Drive through Hacienda Business Park to the railroad tracks and down West Las Positas to the city limits.

Stoneridge Drive was already under construction at the time,” adds Mike Cooper, a project engineer with Bissell & Karn, the civil engineering firm responsible for the street improvements. “We realized there would be less disruption of traffic if we coordinated the improvements and the sewer pipeline addition.”

The new sewer line will be built in three phases and should be completed by the end of the year. It is being funded by the North Pleasanton Improvement District at no cost to residential property owners.

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