Even when they are doing a job - an infrastructure upgrade in the Haverford Township section of Bryn Mawr - Penn Street, Martin Ave,Railroad, etc. - they can't get it right. Even when the job site is literally around the corner from AQUA's corporate offices.

Once again, they chose Utility Line Services to do the work. Small streets have been strewn for quite a while with metal plates and large equipment left parked for days on streets that can't spare an on street space. Much of this equipment was SO large you couldn't see safely around some of it in a car.

Now the streets were in decent shape prior to the construction, but take a walk or drive today and the conditions are deplorable.

Saturday evening when coming home from dinner with friends we and several other vehicles got caught in the shoddy by-product of AQUA's infrastructure upgrades. We all could have been hurt, and like all the other cars lost at the very least entire wheels and rims to a a road hole in the construction that was not covered and not marked. This hole, in reality a baby sink hole underneath the road cuts was improperly back filled. It was at the rear of Bryn Mawr Terrace Nursing and Rehab and in between Penn Street and Martin Ave on Railroad. When the photos were taken, Haverford Township had put up saw horses to mark off the danger zone. When everyone kept hitting the part of the street in collapse in the dark, there were no such indications or warnings to be careful. No cones, no flashing safety lights. Nothing.

The way this neighborhood has been left is unacceptable, and even when the local Haverford Township Commissioner went to call in person to speak to the workers from AQUA (Utility Line Services), they got smart with him basically saying if we all want clean water we have to put up with them. Huh?

Clean water? Don't recall them caring so much about clean water when I caught them in North Wayne in March pumping mud, silt and God knows what into a storm drain that feeds to the Gulph Creek without proper silt bags and other environmentally sound protections. See look:

We could have been hurt on Saturday evening. Others could have been and who knows if they were or not. Infrastructure upgrades are needed, but hey AQUA, so are better sub contractors.

The photos you have been looking at were taken yesterday and in March 2008. AQUA needs to put this neighborhood back together and apologize to the Haverford Township Commissioner involved. A sizable donation to a charity of his choice or something needed to be funded in his ward would also be a nice way of saying sorry, right?

Get it together AQUA, it's hard times out there and we can't afford all the repair work your sub contractors are causing to be needed. Put the streets back to not just a network of lumps and bumps.