Small business owners on Pinehill Drive say an ongoing Mobile Area Water & Sewer System project caught them by surprise when it began last fall and claim the work is going on far too long, damaging their properties and their bottom lines.

The residential road located across Government Street from the Mobile Police Department’s headquarters has been the object of a multi-million-dollar sewer line improvement project developed by MAWSS to reduce sanitary sewer overflows into nearby Eslava Creek, MAWSS spokeswoman Monica Allen said. Contractors started excavating Pinehill Drive in October and access to the street currently remains limited.

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