Pump station and canal work in Jefferson
Jefferson drains through parish canals and pump stations along the parish line, and the rehabilitation work on them never really finishes. A Jefferson pump station job is a fenced compound for months, so the order is one or two units plus a handwashing stand on monthly billing, set on the slab inside the gate.
Canal bank jobs work differently. A Jefferson crew on a canal servitude gets the unit at the access road end, never down the bank where a truck cannot reach it.
Shrewsbury streets and Jefferson utility cuts
The Jefferson streets behind the highway are narrow, densely parked and full of old utilities. A water line replacement in Jefferson closes a block, so we put the unit on the closed side upstream of the plates and move it forward each week. Parking is the real fight on a Jefferson street. A Jefferson resident who loses a space to a restroom will say so, which is why we keep the unit tight against the work zone.
Batture, drainage and the Jefferson calendar
Jefferson runs from the levee batture up to the Airline corridor, and the ground behind the natural levee holds water long after a storm. We keep Jefferson units on pavement wherever there is any, and plank the rest of them. The blocks nearest the Jefferson canal servitudes are the slowest to dry out after a summer storm, and we treat them accordingly.
Batture work in Jefferson has its own rule. A Jefferson unit below the levee crown is a bad idea, so we stage it on the crown road instead. Summer sets the service pace, and any Jefferson crew job goes to twice weekly from June through September.