Today- Monday,  April 27 - EBMUD begins working on the portion of the water main from the creek crossing (next to The Cooperage and up to the Round Up) to Mt. Diablo Boulevard. This section of water main will very likely take two days to install due to the high concentration of utilities in the intersection with Mt. Diablo Boulevard. On Wednesday, April 29th EBMUD anticipates that they will begin excavating for the service transfers to the new main. In order to facilitate as quick a transfer process as possible, EBMUD anticipates that they will be excavating service connection points in the street and placing steel plates over these excavations beginning on Wednesday, April 29th. This work will be performed during the normal working hours with two way traffic control and flaggers. EBMUD has agreed to start service transfers to restaurants at 6:00 am with an anticipated reconnection time no later than 10:00 am beginning on Monday, May 4th. If all goes well, a number of the restaurants near La Fiesta Square will get their transfers to the new service on Monday, May 4 and Tuesday, May 5. Those businesses will be notified. The project team knows that the time leading up to Mother's Day weekend is critical to the restaurants and the retailers. During the week of May 4th, they will be chlorinating the new line.

Questions? Please contact Matt Luttropp, Senior Engineer, City of Lafayette, Ph. 925.299.3247 Fx. 925.284.3169, mluttropp@ci.lafayette.ca.us or Stan Polite, EBMUD Project Manager, spolite@ebmud.com, (510) 774-6266

Our monthly Green Committee Meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 28 at 12:00pm (noon) in the Chamber Conference Room. The Green Committee will have just finished the Lafayette Reservoir Clean Up Day and Earth Day Festival events. Now with more than 40 businesses participating in the Green Business Program, the committee is looking at welcoming even more businesses. You can attend and learn how to become a "Lafayette Green" business.  Our focus at this meeting is finalizing the materials to distribute to the community to prepare for the Plastic Bag Ban in Lafayette beginning July 1st.  Please park on the street.

Sustainable Lafayette is hosting this workshop on Tuesday, April 28 to help you do your best at conserving water.  Focusing on indoor and outdoor conservations actions and practices, you will also walk away with the Top 10 Actions you can do to maximize water savings.  If you would like additional information on this topic contact Kim Overaa - kimoveraa@sustainablelafayette.org. To contact the workshop instructor - Todd Sutton (925) 787-8913 or Todd@WasteSleuth.com  -www.WasteSleuth.com.