If you drive by the SW Station area in Eden Prairie this week, chances are you are going to slow down and dodge a little bit of late season construction action. This is a photo of the work being done in Technology Drive. This is a good thing. The SW Transit station, Culvers and the group of restaurants in the strip building are getting new water and sewer utilities this week.
If you’re familiar with the area, you’ve seen blue plastic pipes laying on the ground for the better part of the summer. This was the public water supply for the buildings in the SW Station area. For reasons which are still being sorted out, the underground utilities in the area failed and needed to be replaced. A water supply line laying on the ground in the summer is not great, but it is feasible. In the winter, it’s neither good, nor is it feasible. It looks like the property owners are going to get this project done just before things start to get really cold here.
We are expecting them to finish this project by the end of this week.
