Yes, the all-night-long banging has come to an end! Here’s a note from City Engineer Larry Nelson that was sent yesterday with some interesting information about the future of this type of work:
Dave Beck-Engel of Findorff confirmed that the pile driving on Johnson Street was concluded this morning. While we did not get complaints in the immediate area, we had quite a few complaints from areas east of the square and reports that people in Monona could here the sound. George Hank reported that he could hear the sound at his residence some 2.8 miles from the site.
Apparently, the dampening of the energy waves was more detectable out some distance. To my knowledge, we have not generated a similar response from pile driving during the day. Barring additional information on the type of hammer used, its probably not a good idea to do pile driving at night in the future.
