I had an opportunity to meet Michael McDowall of Ramsey's engineering dept. at the project site. He fits the pattern of being a staff person good at meeting members of the public.
Foot traffic is really constrained while that project is pending. There is the trailhead on Alpine's south side, where one can walk the trail to reach where 151st deadends, and from there along 151st east to Nowthen (bypassing to the south of the intersection work and reaching Nowthen roughly at the driveway to the old city hall site - when it was centrally located and at a convenient walking distance from established Ramsey residences).
Let us hope the work is promptly finished, and with the rework now, we can hope it will not need to be done yet again and again. And again. It is unclear to me what failed from the initial installation of sewer work, i.e., why the rebuild is needed.
Let us hope stealth installation of sewer/water in the large-lot neighborhoods where it is both unneeded and unwanted by residents is not a part of things. Vigilance over that possibility is necessary, in that WAC and SAC charges can be outrageously expensive to existing homeowners (while crabgrass [aka developers] seem to magically get SAC/WAC waivers, real people are the ones who can end up getting screwed fiscally, big time, which is the exact opposite of how local government should behave).
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