Triphammer Road has been undergoing a major renovation throughout the summer, and there is a lot more to be done. With Winter getting closer, "What you see is what you get," says resident engineer Byron Hall of Fisher Associates. "We're about 35% done with the project according to the monies that have been paid to the contractor so far."

It looks like the construction will be completed at the end of next summer. Work was held up for a while because the utility companies did not do their work when scheduled. Other work depended on the utilities being moved. But the project would have finished nest year anyway. "We had a late start to begin with," says Mr. Hall.

Village officials struggled with the sewer problem in their Monday (9/19) evening meeting in the Village Offices on Triphammer Road.  The Town of Lansing is committed to bring sewer service to the southern part of Lansing, roughly including everything south of Buck Road.  In order to get sewage to the Cayuga Heights treatment plant the main trunk line must go through the Village.  Three possible routes have been suggested by the Town's engineers, and the Town has asked the Village's input before choosing a route.

The Town favors a route (knows as Alternate Route B) along the old Ithaca Auburn Railroad line which runs roughly parallel to East Shore Drive to the East at a higher elevation.  Engineers have identified this route as the least expensive, in part because it would be run by gravity.  A gravity system would not need pumping stations and the attendant ongoing maintenance.  (Alternate A goes along Cayuga Heights Road and down Cedar Lane.  Neither the Town nor the Village favor this route.)  The Village favors Alternate Route C, which follows Route 34, because it would be lease intrusive to village residents during construction and maintenance.  This is the most expensive alternative.

What does a village do when it's codes and ordinances are stuffed into a notebook?  That question was answered for Ithaca High School students who observed the regular Village of Lansing Board of Trustees meeting Monday (9/19) night.  Mayor Donald Hartill explained to the four visiting students that Codification is putting all of the village's codes and laws into a standard format, indexed to make rules easy to find.

The Village has been working on codification for over five years to try to get all ordinances and village rules into a form that is easily accessible.  This will make it simpler for village officials and residents to figure out what is allowed in any given circumstance.

"Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere
Nor any drop to drink."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who penned these lines in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," must have been haunting Wednesday's Lansing Town Board meeting, which was dominated by discussion of water district proposals.  The Town Hall was nearly filled with residents concerned about the Algerine Road/Lansing Station Road water extension proposal, a proposal for Drake Road, and one on Lake Ridge Road.  When Town Supervisor began the meeting by quoting Coleridge he wasn't kidding.