Noisy nighttime construction halted after neighbors contact city hall


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WEST JORDAN — Residents in one neighborhood are looking for a quiet night's rest, and they may get it after city hall put a stop to construction trucks rolling through town in the middle of the night.

Since Monday night, Melanie Bowcutt has been using her phone to record truck after truck after truck going past her home near 6400 West and 7800 South in West Jordan.

"It picked up around 10:00 and it didn't stop ... all night," Bowcutt said.

KSL News went out late Wednesday night and sure enough, it looked like rush hour. Big trucks were constantly going up and down 6400 West right next to the houses that line the road. It went on and on until 4 or 5 in the morning.

On Tuesday, Bowcutt's husband counted 150 trucks rumbling by. They were "loud enough that, talking to my husband, we couldn't hear each other," Bowcutt said.

She said the noise also shook the house, rattling the windows. So, she and her neighbors began making phone calls.

"They told me that they had at least 14 more nights on the schedule for night work, which is insane," Bowcutt said.

The big trucks are hauling dirt away from the big I-215 reconstruction project. Some of the dirt is being used as fill material for the Mountain View Corridor extension; the rest is dumped in a pit right next to Melanie's neighborhood.

The phones at the mayor's office also starting ringing.

"They were really mad," West Jordan Mayor Kim Rolfe said. "Their sleep had been disturbed and they were really mad."

But Rolfe had good news: effective immediately, the nighttime parade of trucks will stop. City engineers worked with the Utah Department of Transportation to find a solution.

"As soon as we learned that there was an issue out there, we met as a project team and determined that, yes, that's not acceptable," said UDOT spokesman John Gleason. "We have other alternatives, so we'll use those other options."

Finally, for those living in Bowcutt's neighborhood, there are some sweet dreams ahead.

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