Hello everyone welcome to the Work Zone Watch Franklin Insider.
I'm Melissa Reierson and this is our Facilities Manager Brad Wilson, and we're on the
site right here of a very new upcoming[...]
Very new.
[...]fire station it's fire station. It's Fire Station #7.
We have eight in the city, and this is on the east side of the city
right near the AG Center.
There's a temporary center there and let's talk
about why we decided to put the fire station over here.
I understand originally it was going to be on the other side of the highway
but when we had that tanker accident about four years ago, we decided to move
it over here right?
That's right. The reason that we moved from that side of
the Berry Farms is currently being developed was with accessibility.
Fire Department with the apparatus need accessibility to the Main Roads, not a
whole lot of turning and twisting trying to get out of the fire facility to get
out to get on the road to get to where they need to be.
And right after the accident we decided to put a temporary facility over here so that the residents,
while they were repairing the bridge, the residents on this side of I65 would have
fire service and that temporary buildings been up for about four years
and now we're finally breaking ground on the new fire station.
Finally breaking down ground as you know it takes a little time but you know we've this
temporary facility has done its job well we feel.
Gave the residents and people in
the area a little bit more protection because like you said with the bridge
being damaged and the other one catching fire, they had our response time I think
was going to be somewhere around 10 to 12 minutes in some areas without this
temporary facility being here.
So this project went out for bid roughly about
six months ago, it's right at a 17,000 square foot facility.
We are partnering for the first time with Williamson County EMS, which will have a single bay
of its own which will be designed in two based on our design.
It will have a staff crew there, full time staff crew there, and just to help with any type of
emergency services that are here.
They'll also be able to like our station 7
over in West Haven was the first that we put a treatment room in there.
Excuse-me, station 8. Yes, and but with that the treatment room has been very
successful in station eight over there so...
That is a very beautiful fire station if anyone's ever been over there you might want to go take a look and then
the one here in on Peytonsville Road if you're driving over Goose Creek Bypass,
Peytonsville Road the entrance will actually be on Peytonsville Road right?
It is. It sounds straight on Peytonsville Road.
Okay and everyone likes the doors
that are at West Haven are we going to have those doors over here?
The exact structure that we have at West Haven is being built here with the bypass type doors.
All right so we've broken ground what's the timeline when can people
expect to see some more building and maybe a completion date?
Well as we all know construction problems arise and we were able we had to work with Middle Tennessee
Electric at [...] excuse me not Atmos Energy but Comcast and AT&T.
worked with Middle Tennessee Electric trying to get all their structure pulled off of the pose.
We've had to rework transmission lines that crossed our site also with Comcast
and AT&T and trying to get their new facilities and structures put up.
And then now we're in the process I think this week is coming week we should start
wrecking or they'll start wrecking off their lines off the existing poles.
And then that will help... But currently right now we're looking at about a March 20th 2020.
March 2020.
March 20th of 2020.
And I live in this area and I was kind
of wondering why up there why are they doing all the land that there's that
have to do with the fire station?
Well we had quite a bit of topo that we had to
work but instead of hauling the material off of the site, I was able to kind of
work it into the existing site so with the help of Tim Edwards our
Superintendent with Southland, we put about 5,700 cubic yards of material on
site we kept it here.
And we've probably based on our estimates we probably saved
between seven and nine hundred thousand dollars in cost and what it would cost
to haul material off the site.
Saving taxpayer dollars that's what we love.
Thanks Brad!
Thank you!
We'll see you next time on the Work Zone Watch.