Living and working beside the New Sarpy fenceline
New Sarpy is small and hemmed in, with the refinery on one side and the railroad on the other, and almost every job here touches one of them. A New Sarpy contractor working the fenceline takes banked units inside the gate with a handwashing stand at the trailer. Turnaround weeks bring extra trades into New Sarpy and the count goes up accordingly.
Badging comes before anything else. We keep one driver on the New Sarpy gate so the security paperwork does not start over again every week.
Rail corridor and New Sarpy street work
The rail line along New Sarpy carries plant traffic all day, and crossing or signal work here closes the few streets that cross it. A New Sarpy unit near the track goes behind the contractor barricade, well outside the fouling limits, and we check which New Sarpy crossing is open before the driver leaves. Street jobs in New Sarpy are simpler than that. A New Sarpy water line crew gets the unit on the closed side of the cut, moved forward each week.
River Road, levee and the New Sarpy ground
New Sarpy sits between the river levee and the highway on silt that never really dries below the surface. A New Sarpy unit on bare soil settles a corner within weeks, so plank or shell goes under every setting we make.
Home repair is the steady New Sarpy residential work. A New Sarpy house getting a new roof or a raised floor takes one standard unit at the drive end for a month or two, and summer takes that New Sarpy job to twice weekly service. Most New Sarpy lots have just enough room for the truck and nothing spare.