City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 10 Aug 2018

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This week on Inside Boulder News: Creekside Concert Series, Pavement Innovations, and Arapahoe Reconstruction Update

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This week on inside Boulder News, the Civic area will debut a brand new concert series for the community to attend for free.

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This innovation is not only saving millions of dollars in taxpayer money by keeping Boulder on track towards a zero-waste goals and will tell you when you can expect to drive on a rapido Avenue once again, welcome to inside boulder news your source for all things: Boulder I'm, Joe, Flom and Daniel Boulder takes tremendous pride in its environmental efforts, the city's goals to reduce the waste we create and then reuse, recycle and compost most of what we throw away both as a community and the state organization.

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Boulders Public, Works Department has envisioned a way to not only be environmentally friendly, but save some taxpayer money. These big mountains of dirt piled in the city's municipal service center yard, has saved the city a significant amount of taxpayer money for the last three years. 2017.

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We estimated it was about 1.6 million dollars in savings. That's.

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Josh mech boulders utilities, superintendent, since 2015 he and the city's Public Works Department have been recycling materials such as concrete, including sidewalk panels, and asphalt after repairing and replacing water mains. These materials then go on to be refined and repurposed for other maintenance needs a.

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Contractor comes in with a big, grinder and they'll. Take one scoop of earth, basically the two scoops of concrete or asphalt, and they just blend it into a Class six backfill. The.

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Recycled material is used for backfilling all utilities, excavations such as water main replacements, water, main breaks and sewer repairs by recycling. The city has not only been resourceful by reusing the material, but they have also reduced landfill costs to dispose of their most material. The.

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Big push was not having utility staff haul dirt the landfill that we can reuse in.

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The projects three years, the city has repurposed over 50 thousand tons of material that would have otherwise ended up in the landfill. We.

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Probably used around 9,000 this year, we'll use the entire pile behind me this year. Innovations.

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Like this keep Boulder on track to reach its zero waste goal of 85% diversion from the landfill by 2025 to learn more about the city, zero waste goals. Please visit to zero waste Boulder com construction along Arapaho Avenue, has been moving along this week. Crews shut down all travel lanes on the road to make room for paving, in addition to the street being reconstructed, the underpass along 13th and Arapaho is being reconstructed as well to provide a safer and less flood prone underpass along the Boulder Creek path.

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The Arapaho reconstruction project began in early June and is expected to be complete in February of 2019 Street reconstruction, however, is anticipated to be finished and all it's open to traffic on Arapaho by August 15th, one freshman begin at Boulder, High School, just.

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Like everything, there's a certain life span within a roadway and at some point it's kind of like a house that you got to get it to the studs and redo everything inside. So a lot of utility replacements that were done prior to the roadway and then the road surface was in bad need of repair, so storm drainage improvements, replacing hundred-year-old pipes, things like that. We're all part of this project for.

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More information on the Arapaho reconstruction project, please visit the website. Seen on your screen, it's hard to believe that summer is almost over, which means kids will soon be going back to school and to make it a great start to the upcoming school year. We spoke to boulders Police Department about safety tips. Children and adults should follow before they hit the books. Again. Back-To-School season means the return of busy school zones and boulders Police Department would like to remind drivers to slow down. That's.

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Very important, if so many little kids walking around in your obviously there's reason why the speed limits 20 miles an hour. You know when schools letting in and letting out so it's one of the biggest things that we tried and force to new school goes back is speeding and you know we have a lot less discretion for that, because it's a really big safety issue with little kids crossing the street and.

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This same advice applies to cyclists, ride.

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Your bike home, you know, make sure you are waiting for the crosswalk if you're gonna be on the sidewalk or, if you're actually on the street, you have to remember. You have to follow all the same laws that that cars do for.

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Those using the crosswalk it's important to stay alert at all times in the blade traffic signals.

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Sure you always press the button and you wait for it to tell you to cross. That's you know the number one thing second I know you know this thing's been around forever, but you know stop actually look both ways make sure cars are stopped. You know what are you looking for and let's make sure you don't hear any cars coming or you know the engines revving things like that.

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Take a look at the city's vision, zero mission, please visit the website seen on your screen, the city of Boulder and the police department would like to wish everyone a safe and happy successful new school year, August 7th marked the celebration of National Night Out ignite, where local law enforcement and neighbors come together. Neighbors all across the city of Boulder played host to National Night Out firemen and police got the chance to interact with one another. More than 10 neighborhoods participated at this year's annual event. I worked.

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The night shift here so I don't meet too many people. So it's a good opportunity for me to get out and meet the people that I'm serving here council.

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Members also took the opportunity to meet their local community.

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Great that you can feel like you can interact with another member and have honest communication and not have it be someone's that you see on TV and unapproachable, but bring us all together as a community. So we they know that they can work with us and that we're listening and listening and while.

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Kids got to play with fire hoses in climb inside patrol cars. National Night Out was a chance for the community and law enforcement to build a stronger relationship with one another. We're.

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Human beings, too, you know, and having said that, you know we have a job to do and sometimes we might seem like we're coming off rough or something like that. But ultimately, you gotta make sure the community safe make sure our partners are safe.

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Boulder Civic area will soon make room for the inaugural Creekside concert series a free, family-friendly event, featuring exciting life bands, delicious food and local craft beer. Boulders Parks and Recreation Department invites the community to attend its very first concert featuring funkify know. The Creekside concert series is a new concert series and boulders newly renovated Civic area. It will be two Friday nights of free live music for the community to enjoy just.

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Opened up this year, this newly renovated side of the Civic area. We really wanted to showcase it. It's a beautiful spot and part of our mission is to activate the park, and we know that the community loves live music and wanted to bring that to this beautiful spot people.

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Can expect exciting live bands like boulders, very own funkify, gnome and golden bass, bluegrass band, rabbit breasts, food trucks and a beer garden will also be at the concert. We've.

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Got boulder beer company coming out to provide beer garden and proceeds from that beer garden? Do you benefit the play Boulder foundation, so it's a really great way to come out and enjoy a fun night and get back to the community at the same time. Well,.

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There's an Agora Creekside concert will be held on Friday August 17th, with gates opening up at 5:30 at Boulder, Civic area front lawn, live music will begin at 6 p.m. we're.

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Really excited to have people come by and join us for this new concert series: it's a beautiful spot. We have again class fans and I think it's just gonna be a really fun Friday evening for.

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More information please visit Builders, Parks and Recreation website on the address seen on screen. Thank you so much for joining us on this week's edition of inside boulder news. If you have pictures news tips or events you like to see featured, we will have to hear from you connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. You can also sign up to receive video updates right in your inbox. Just go to Boulder channel 8, comm and click on subscribe have a good week.