Hoffman Car Wash is now collaborating with an engineering firm to develop a plan to stabilize the slope at the far end of the property.<\/p>\n
Bethleham, NY \u2013 Work is underway to stabilize the ground at a popular oil change and car wash center in Bethlehem that was forced to close last month over safety concerns.<\/p>\n
The property on Delaware Avenue, home to both a Jiffy Lube and Hoffman Car Wash, was temporarily shut down by town officials after cracks in the earth raised fears of a potential landslide.<\/p>\n
Related: Two\u00a0Bethlehem\u00a0businesses had to evacuate due to unstable ground<\/a><\/p>\n Bethlehem Town Attorney Jim Potter said the town has been in regular communication with Hoffman\u2019s management as the company works to address the issue.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been working cooperatively with the owners of Hoffman\u2019s,\u201d Potter said.<\/p>\n Hoffman Car Wash is now collaborating with an engineering firm to develop a plan to stabilize the slope at the far end of the property. Cracks in that area have been monitored for nearly two years and are close to other sites where land movement has previously occurred.<\/p>\n According to Hoffman\u2019s, the company is in the final stages of review and expects to share its stabilization plan with the town\u2019s engineering firm and National Grid soon.<\/p>\n Potter said any decision to reopen the site will depend on whether engineers determine the business can safely operate without posing further risk.<\/p>\n \u201cIf their engineer provides a report indicating that there can be a safe operation isolating certain areas of the site and our engineer agrees, then it\u2019s a question of our planning staff and planning board determining if the facility can be operated in a safe manner from a traffic and internal traffic routing perspective,\u201d Potter explained.<\/p>\n A Hoffman\u2019s spokesperson told NewsChannel 13 that the site will remain temporarily closed while the company works through the engineering and approval process with the town. The company said its goal is to implement a long-term fix to ensure the property\u2019s stability and safety before reopening.<\/p>\n Potter added that if engineers determine the site cannot be operated safely under the current plan, Hoffman\u2019s will have to seek new approvals from the town.<\/p>\n \u201cIf because of this slope issue, it can\u2019t be operated in that way, then Hoffman\u2019s will have to go back to the planning board for an amendment of the site plan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Despite the closure, Hoffman\u2019s confirmed that no employees have lost their jobs. Most workers have been reassigned to other car wash locations in the area while the site remains closed.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0WNYT<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0National Grid<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Jim Potter<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Jiffy Lube<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Hoffman Car Wash<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Delaware Avenue<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0car wash<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Bethleham<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Benny Nezaj<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hoffman Car Wash is now collaborating with an engineering firm to develop a plan to stabilize the slope…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20613,20612,153,155,154,10032,344,341,342,20611,1296,20610],"class_list":["post-32712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-benny-nezaj","tag-bethleham","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-car-wash","tag-delaware-avenue","tag-hoffman-car-wash","tag-jiffy-lube","tag-jim-potter","tag-national-grid","tag-wnyt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}