![]() ![]() After offloading the cargo, they dug a 10- by 6-foot-wide exit pit 8 feet deep at the back of the locktender house. Feaker workers loaded a spool of tracer wire, a spool with 500 feet of 1.25-inch DR9 HDPE tubing, and an excavator on the barge, then journeyed across the canal. The city had ferried equipment to the island with a barge and was preparing to pull it out before the river froze. The house received its first visitors during the project’s grand opening celebration in May. While wind, snow and temperatures in the teens and low 20s slowed the installation, it went as planned. General contractor Feaker & Sons Construction in Green Bay, Wis., subcontracted Waas Boring and Cable in Lomira, Wis., to drill under the river and through its limestone bed. The only way to connect the lavatories to the sewer was to use horizontal directional drilling. The Lower Fox River flowed past the west side of the island and over the dam. To the east, the lock’s canal separated the building from Voyageur Park on the mainland, and the sanitary sewer 50 feet away in a major thoroughfare. The house, built on a narrow dike called Government Island, had no septic system. The De Pere Lock and Dam are listed in the State Register and National Register of Historic Places. The four-year Riverwalk and Wildlife Viewing Pier project undertaken by the City of De Pere, Wis., included renovating the unoccupied locktender house and adding public restrooms. Get Municipal/Industrial articles, news and videos right in your inbox! Sign up now. ![]()
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