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Coos Bay to Clean Large Downtown Sewers Overnight; City Warns of Brief Morning Delays
Summary
City staff said crews will clean large downtown sewer lines from the outside in over the coming weeks, working mostly overnight and coordinating around the farmers market to limit disruption. The work will include televising lines and may reveal repairs that require future capital projects.
Coos Bay will begin a targeted cleaning of the large sewer lines that serve downtown this spring and continue through July, city staff told the City Council. Work will occur primarily overnight to reduce traffic impacts, and staff said they will coordinate with downtown businesses and avoid cleaning in the farmers market footprint on market days.
The effort focuses on Pump Station 1’s grid, described by staff as the city’s largest pump station and the downstream collection point for several other pump stations, including Pump Station 2 and multiple east-side pumps. Staff said many downtown lines — which run 27 to 30 inches in diameter, compared with the…
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