Village Mayor Craig Randall said while the actual pipeline work should be done, crews will still have to fill in a few holes from street cutting and digging. That work will be done after the July 4 holiday, he said. Manholes will also be looked over so they are in working order and abandoned sewer lines will be capped.

“The caps make it so that the old pipes aren’t involuntary uses,” Randall said.

Randall said these aspects will not interfere with the village’s annual Fourth of July parade.

The Lake Placid village board expected to have the project done by mid-June or at least before the rush of summer tourists. The project was originally slated to cost $1,249,150; however, an order change lowered the total expenses to $1,219,620.

“It actually required less digging then we expected,” Randall said. “We didn’t need as much blacktop material, and there was a reduced amount of slip-lining.”

Slip-lining is the process of filling a worn pipe with a coating material. It essentially makes a new, stronger pipe inside the old one.

The sewer renovation and remodeling, which has been underway since April, was a long overdue project. The village has been under a consent order from the state Department of Environmental Conservation since 2004.

Some of the infrastructure was old and weathered, and it had the risk of leaking raw sewage into Mirror Lake.

From the High Peaks Resort to Mid’s Park, pipes along the road were shifted, replaced and refurbished in response to decades of deterioration.

“It’s an important piece to have done,” Randall said, “but it’s just one piece of a bigger project geared toward improving Main Street for traffic and pedestrians.”

The village is expected to reconfigure the streetscape and the storm drains leading into Mirror Lake from Main Street as part of a green initiative for spring 2019. The storm drain system would implement bioretension basins at the foot of Saranac Avenue that filter water through the soil rather than pumping it into Mirror Lake, and the sidewalks would have trees added to them.