KINGSTON — Those wanting to hit around some balls on the West Kingston Road tennis courts this summer may find difficulty in accessing the facility at certain times.

The dirt seen pushed around the area recently is for a new sewage pump station that will be installed as part of Kingston’s new wastewater treatment system.

However, access won’t be impossible.

“There will be times (residents) won’t be able to park at the tennis courts, but they will be able to have foot access,” said sewage system project manager Floyd Bayless.

Residents can expect foot access-only several times this month as well as in August and September, Bayless added.

The new pump station will take the place of the existing treatment plant, which is located behind the courts. A new wastewater facility is currently being constructed off Norman Road.

Instead of rerouting the community’s sewers to the new plant, the idea was to install a force main that would transfer the sewage from the old plant to the new one, Bayless explained. The sewage will go through piping that was installed in the summer of 2002 during the West Kingston Road expansion.

The old treatment plant site is also expected to be part of the county’s proposed Village Green concept, an area of mixed use for open space and commercial development.

“It will be a nice-looking building,” Bayless assured about the new pump station facility.

As for the sewer plant itself, it is being constructed on county property off Norman Road but the access will be from South Kingston Road.

However, residents on Norman Road will have to deal with construction this summer as the road will be torn up for pipe installation, Bayless explained. A community meeting regarding this project will be at 7:30 p.m. May 6 at the North Kitsap Fire & Rescue headquarters on Miller Bay Road.

“It’s going to take a lot of coordination with our part and residents,” Bayless said.

The third component of the new sewer system is the replacement of the damaged outfall pipe. Construction for a new line is expected to begin July 15, but Bayless said he hopes to get an earlier start date.

Work on the plant began in January and the entire project is contracted through June 2005. Stan Palmer Construction is building the pump station and treatment plant and General Construction is installing the outfall pipe.

“We have aggressive contractors, aggressive managers and aggressive owners,” Bayless said, noting that this project is expected to progress as scheduled.