Q: My question is: On the east side of Coffee Road, between Entrance Street and Hageman Road, there is a huge pile of dirt all covered over with tarps and boards. There is a mesh fence around it, and cones on the sidewalk. It has been like that for weeks.What is happening there, and why isn’t it finished? Thanks for your answer.
— Margie Marshall

A: The conspicuous dirt pile at the entrance of a busy shopping center caught the attention of the city, too.“We’ve had our eye on that for a little while because it has been sitting out there with nobody doing any work for a couple of months,” said Steve Lesh, a construction supervisor with the city’s Public Works Department.Construction started about two months ago, Lesh said.So the city recently sent an inspector to look into who is responsible for the work. The project is being handled by Sprint Nextel Corp., he said. The company is tying into a PG&E facility to provide power to a nearby cell phone tower.Sprint Nextel reports the work should have been completed by the end of the week, Lesh said.