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Kalamazoo utility leaders outline $51M station consolidation, PFAS work and broad main-replacement needs
Summary
City staff briefed the Utility Policy Committee on a 2025 capital-improvement program that prioritizes station consolidation with PFAS treatment, major well work and a multi-year cast-iron pipe replacement program estimated in the hundreds of millions.
Kalamazoo City utility staff presented the Utility Policy Committee with a 2025 capital improvement overview that centers on station consolidation, PFAS treatment, well replacements and a continuing program to replace aging cast-iron mains.
City staff member James Baker told the committee the system will focus on well replacement and rehabilitation in 2025 and is moving a Station 5/Station 14 consolidation project from design into construction. He said the consolidation will include modern iron and manganese treatment and PFAS removal and will be configured to run as a base-load station supplying adjacent districts once online.
Baker said the consolidation project is large — "you see about $51,000,000 in 2025" — and that design and construction spending will extend through 2029. He said Station 5 was built in 1914 and is constrained by a nearby PFAS contamination plume; Station 14 currently shows background PFAS levels below Michigan limits but is being modernized to protect…
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