by Margay Blackman
Village of Brockport Mayor
Since the last update, concrete work—removing crumbling concrete from the pit floors and canal wall and pouring new concrete has proceeded, with a brief hiatus in January when it was too cold to do concrete work. The photos, from January 12, show the removal of the original 110-year-old counterweights from the south pit. Sawed into pieces that could be lifted out by crane and loaded onto a truck, they were hauled to a Rochester facility to be recycled as sub-base crushed stone for driveways, parking lots, and roadways.
In the next couple of weeks, look for work on the trusses at 7 North Main Street as new bottom chords (the horizontal bottom members that attach to the trusses), a new diagonal, and new gussets (the square pieces which attach to the chords and diagonals) are delivered and installed.
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