CenterPoint will be changing how our City is provided with electric service. Currently our power comes into the city via wires elevated over the freeway. Because of the widening of the freeway to eight lanes, TXDOT is having CenterPoint reroute the lines underground. To accomplish this a large pit will be dug in Sailfish Street to accomodate a boring machine that will drill under the freeway. The process will take several months.

The Sailfish gate will operate normally.

Sailfish Street itself will be modified. Since a portion of the southeast lane of Sailfish between Neptune and Blue Heron will become the boring pit, Sailfish will be widened on its northwest side to create an additional traffic lane, maintaining two lanes of traffic on Sailfish. When safety concerns require it, CenterPoint contractors will have flagmen at both ends of the work area directing traffic.

The modifications to Sailfish will allow the Blue Heron paving project to proceed unimpeded. Some temporary disruption to the landscaping between Sailfish and Redfish will occur. CenterPoint has repeatedly assured the City that their landscaping contractor will return the area to a condition as good or better than they found it.