Dug-Up Streets, Chunks Of Errant Concrete Become The Norm In Eagle Ridge

ROUND ROCK, TX -- Residents living in the Eagle Ridge neighborhood have resigned themselves to dug-up streets and chunks of concrete strewn across the landscape as city crews replace old pipe at a furious pace.

“It’s been a nightmare,” one resident told KXAN-TV, describing the neighborhood as something akin to an ongoing construction zone.

City officials said they’re digging up streets to replace some 9,000 feet of aging cement pipe. A city spokesperson said the work is critical because the old pipes leak lots of water.

But residents are in for a long wait before the work concludes. City officials say the work in the Eagle Ridge neighborhood will begin in earnest in February and will continue for up to three more years.

While crews are working hard to complete the streets project, the work’s tedious nature requires a protracted period of digging. In the last seven years, only 10 miles of piping has been replaced.

“You wish they would come and patch this thing back up and fix it,” resident Clay Parker told the television station. For a month now, Parker has set foot outside his front door only to home come across the sight of missing concrete beyond the perimeter of his yard.

Round Rock officials said they’ll be spending about $1 million a year replacing aging pipe throughout the city.