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Night shifts push Belvedere seawall work toward Nov. 13 finish

Crews shoring up Belvedere’s Beach Road seawall worked overnight to catch low tides; in-water work is now expected to wrap up about Nov. 13.

JOAN LINN BEKINSA concrete pump truck and a ready-mix truck work along Beach Road in Belvedere the night of Oct. 30, as crews pour concrete to secure the seawall’s new steel sheet piles. The contractor expects to finish its in-water work about Nov. 13.
Tyler Callister
By TYLER CALLISTER · 1 min read

Crews shoring up Belvedere’s Beach Road seawall worked overnight for much of the last two weeks of October to catch low tides, a push to finish in-water work the contractor now expects to wrap up about Nov. 13.

Tracy Rittenhouse, who lives on Beach Road near Peninsula Road, outside the stretch of homes the city emailed notifications to, said backup beeps from construction trucks woke her at 10 p.m. Oct. 19 and continued until 2 or 4 a.m. each night that week through Oct. 24. She said no one told her the night work was coming.

“They should have alerted everyone who lives on Beach Road,” she said. “Noise doesn’t stop at an address.”

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