1. Week 8, April 17, 2017

2. Weekly Executive Summary
Street Resurfacing and Natural Gas Improvements
Section 1: Dashboard
Resurfacing Program
Group 7(Downtown): Roads, Inc.
Start: March 16
Complete: July 4
Group 8 (Central): Midsouth Paving
Start: April 10
Complete: August 7
Group 9 (West) Midsouth Paving
Start: Feb. 20
Complete: June 25
Resurfacing Completion (Group 9)
Milling: %
Paving: %
Contract Time: %
Total Contract Complete: 57.00%
City Blocks-Milling: of 227.1
City Blocks-Paving: of 227.1
County Blocks-Milling: 8.8 of 9.1
County Blocks-Paving: 9.1 of 9.1
Resurfacing Completion (Group 7)
Milling: %
Paving: %
Contract Time: %
Total Contract Complete: 09.59%
City Blocks-Milling: 21.9/233.1
City Blocks-Paving: 21.9/233.1
County Blocks-Milling: 0.0/0.0
County Blocks-Paving: 0.0/0.0
Natural Gas Improvements
Section 1A (Downtown-W): Raw Construction
Section 2A (South Palafox): Raw Construction
Start West Contract A: 3/6/17
Conclude West Contract A: 4/26/18
Construction Period: 360 days
Start East Contract B: 5/1/17
Conclude East Contract B: 4/25/18
Resurfacing Completion (Group 8)
Start Date: April 10
Milling: %
Paving: %
Contract Time: %
Total Contract Complete: %
City Blocks-Milling: of 216.3
City Blocks-Paving: 0.o of 216.3
County Blocks-Milling: of 5.1
County Blocks-Paving: of 5.1
Natural Gas Completion
Section 1A-Downtown-West: 65.00%
Section 2A-South Palafox: %
Date: 04/17/2017

3. Weekly Executive Summary
Street Resurfacing and Natural Gas Improvements
Section 2: Talking Points C
Cast-iron is subject to corrosion. With corrosion comes a host of system safety, reliability, and maintenance problems. The new medium-density polyethylene pipes are corrosion free. They require less maintenance, which reduces costs. They’re also capable of better performance.
Week of April 10-14, 2017
Because it is hidden beneath the streets, the work that Pensacola Energy is doing to modernize the natural gas infrastructure may tend to “get lost” in this $30 million construction program. Tell us the purpose of the work.
The move away from cast-iron gas mains began in Pensacola in About 38 percent of the service area, primarily north and east of Bayou Texar, already has the medium-density polyethylene pipes. When the current construction program ends in 2018, approximately 50 percent of the cast-iron gas mains will have been replaced.
Construction crews are replacing the antiquated cast-iron natural gas mains with new medium-density polyethylene pipe. Some of the cast-iron pipes have been in service for more than a century. The current phase of work will remove and replace about 46-miles of the aging cast-iron gas mains.
If they’ve worked for this long, why replace them?
Date: 04/17/2017

4. Weekly Executive Summary
Street Resurfacing and Natural Gas Improvements
Section 2: Talking Points C
Tell us about the “better performance” and how it will benefit Pensacola Energy customers?
In a coastal region that is subject to tropical storms and hurricanes, whole-house natural gas generators are an attractive option for some residential and commercial customers. Tank-less water heaters are growing in popularity because of the energy savings they deliver, and they will be available to a greater portion of the Pensacola Energy service area once this effort concludes.
For example, the cast-iron gas mains in place throughout much of the city can deliver at only 0.25 pounds of pressure per square inch (psi). While this is fine for cooking, heating, and other traditional uses, it is insufficient for some of the modern and increasingly popular natural gas appliances.
Where are crews working now?
Two construction crews from Pensacola Energy are currently working in the Downtown West and South Palafox sectors of the city. The plan for these crews over the next 11-months is to work northward, on the west side of Interstate 110, up toward Jordan Street.
If you’re a natural gas consumer in the areas served by cast-iron pipes, you can’t have appliances like whole-house generators, tank- less water heaters, swimming pool and spa heaters, and others. The natural gas pressure available is simply not enough to power these appliances.
Beginning next month, two additional teams will begin working east of Interstate 110 and proceed in a generally north-easterly direction back toward Bayou Texar.
With the new piping, the delivery pressure won’t be limited to a quarter-pound psi, it will be up to 60 psi.
All the work in the current phase of construction is currently scheduled to conclude in the mid-2018 timeframe.
Date: 04/17/2017

5. Weekly Executive Summary
Street Resurfacing and Natural Gas Improvements
Section 2: Talking Points C
How many natural gas customers are served by Pensacola Energy?
What if citizens have questions?
They may call Pensacola Energy, (850) They may also visit the city’s website, On the front page, they will see a link to the weekly update for the street resurfacing and natural gas infrastructure upgrades program.
Pensacola Energy currently serves about 43,000 residential and commercial customers with clean and efficient natural gas.
Are there things citizens can do to facilitate the work?
Let’s shift gears and talk about the more visible component of the city’s $30 million construction initiative; the street resurfacing. How is that work progressing?
Yes, cars must be moved off the right-of-way so that crews can perform the needed digging and boring to place the new pipes in the ground.
Crews are currently working in west Pensacola and the downtown area to resurface approximately 1800 city blocks, or about 119 miles of city streets. By the end of summer about 700 blocks are scheduled to be completed with work on most of the remaining blocks either underway or scheduled to begin.
Citizens are being advised by mail before work begins in their area. Then, about 48-hours before work begins on their street, crew members are distributing “door-knockers” advising property owners and tenants of the need to temporarily remove vehicles parked on the city-owned right-of-way.
Date: 04/17/2017

6. Weekly Executive Summary
Street Resurfacing and Natural Gas Improvements
Section 2: Talking Points C
What are the benefits?
There’s an adage that says “good roads cost money, but bad roads cost even more money.”
The roads identified for the earliest phases of the program have not been resurfaced in more than a decade. Cracking and deteriorating pavement is not only unsightly it presents huge maintenance issues.
That’s certainly true when you tally the costs associated with traffic crashes, vehicle repairs, lost time, storm water run-off, and lower property values that accompany a poorly maintained system of streets and roadways.
As water permeates the cracks it eventually works its way down into the rock and soil layers that form the road bed. When that happens, the repair costs, when compared to resurfacing, can skyrocket.
We don’t want to have that situation in Pensacola. The citizens deserve better, and this program is aimed at establishing and maintaining a top-flight transportation system. One that serves the needs of today and tomorrow, and contributes to a city we can all be proud to call home.
Not only does resurfacing help protect the tremendous investment taxpayers have in the city’s transportation infrastructure, it also delivers benefits that include:
Enhanced safety.
Better drainage.
Smoother rides.
Less wear-and-tear on vehicles (front end alignments, tires, chipped windshields, etc.).
Aesthetic improvements for our residential and commercial districts.
Date: 04/17/2017

7. Weekly Executive Summary
Street Resurfacing and Natural Gas Improvements
Section 2: Talking Points C
Are there things residents and property owners can do to make the work go smoothly?
If people have questions, is there someone they can call?
More information on the program is available by calling the city’s engineering consultant, Atkins, Inc., at (850)
Yes. Milling and resurfacing can’t begin with cars parked on the street. Construction teams are notifying residents and property owners a couple of weeks in advance of work beginning in their area. Then, hours in advance of work beginning on their street, they’re distributing reminders door-to-door asking that on- street parking be temporarily suspended.
They may also visit the city’s website, On the front page, they will see a link to the weekly update for the street resurfacing and natural gas infrastructure upgrades program.
Milling and resurfacing is a “moving operation.” Most of the time the crews mill and resurface on consecutive days. Once the new asphalt is down, and the street re-opened to traffic, cars can again be parked on the street.
Date: 04/17/2017

8. Weekly Executive Summary
Street Resurfacing and Natural Gas Improvements
Section 3A: Street Resurfacing Photos
A paving crew prepares to mobilize at East Zarragossa Street, between South Palafox and South Tarragona Streets.
Milling work underway on East Zarragossa Street in the downtown sector of the city.
With milling complete on East Zarragossa Street a new layer of asphalt is applied.
Date: 04/17/2017

9. Weekly Executive Summary
Street Resurfacing and Natural Gas Improvements
Section 3B:
Natural Gas
System Improvements Photos
A construction contractor from Pensacola Energy bores near the corner of East Romana and Brue Streets to install new natural gas pipes.
A Vermeer boring machine works in the city-owned right-of-way alongside West Belmont Street to install new natural gas pipes.
Date: 04/17/2017

10. Weekly Executive Summary
Street Resurfacing and Natural Gas Improvements
Section 4: Street Resurfacing Underway
Date: 04/17/2017

11. Weekly Executive Summary
Street Resurfacing and Natural Gas Improvements
Section 1A
Downtown-West: 65.00% Complete
Section 2A
South Palafox: 50.00% Complete
Section 5: Natural Gas Improvements Map
Date: 04/17/2017

12. C Date: 04/17/2017 Section 6: Public Information Narrative
April 17, 2017 
Pensacola Energy serves approximately 43,000 natural gas customers.
Dry weather and comfortable temperatures last week set the stage for progress in the city’s $30 million street resurfacing and natural gas infrastructure upgrades program. Construction crews representing Pensacola Energy worked in the Downtown West and South Palafox sectors of the city to replace antiquated cast-iron natural gas lines with modern, corrosion-free medium-density polyethylene pipe.
The city’s street resurfacing efforts are currently focused in the downtown area and in the western section of Pensacola. It’s an aggressive program that is milling and resurfacing about 1800 city blocks, or 119-miles of streets and roadways.
Taxpayer benefits associated with the work include:
Enhanced traffic safety.
Work on the program is expected to continue throughout the city until mid Approximately 46-miles of cast-iron pipes will be replaced, some of it installed more than a century ago. Once completed, residents in these areas will have a more reliable, safe, and efficient system; and taxpayers will benefit from lower lifecycle maintenance costs
Better drainage.
Smoother rides.
Less wear-and-tear on vehicles (front end alignments, tires, chipped windshields, etc.).
Aesthetic improvements for the city’s residential and commercial districts.
Date: 04/17/2017

13. C Date: 04/17/2017 Section 6: Public Information Narrative (continued)
For both the natural gas improvements, and the resurfacing work, streets and the city-owned right-of-way must be clear of vehicles.
Citizens are being notified by mail in advance of work beginning in their area. Then, within hours of work beginning on a street, crew members are distributing information door-to-door reminding property owners and tenants to temporarily remove vehicles so the work can be accomplished.
More information on the street resurfacing program is available by contacting Atkins, Inc., the city’s engineering consultant, at (850) Information on the natural gas system improvements is available by contacting Pensacola Energy, (850)
Date: 04/17/2017