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Waterloo considers moving fuel site to new public works complex; no immediate decision

5822518 · September 16, 2025
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Public works staff outlined plans to relocate the city fuel site from Eleventh and Blackhawk to the public works complex at 625 Glenwood, and discussed additional storage and flood-preparation needs. Council asked questions but took no formal action.

Randy Bennett, public works division manager, briefed the Waterloo City Council at a work session on proposed changes to the city’s public works complex, including relocating the municipal fuel site and adding storage for flood-response equipment.

Bennett said the current fuel site at Eleventh and Blackhawk was built in 1993 and that city departments, Waterloo schools, Metransit, the county and the sheriff’s office use the fuel. “We purchased just a little bit under a million gallons of fuel annually,” he said. He told council the existing underground-tank…

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