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County officials discuss fairgrounds well plans as grant scope changes and feasibility work continues
Summary
County staff and contractors told commissioners the fairgrounds water project will likely require drilling a larger domestic/irrigation well, revising grant scope and soliciting bids after engineers returned an ~$11 million renovation estimate.
Okanogan County staff told commissioners they are reworking plans for a fairgrounds water project after engineers and the grant manager signaled the scope must change and that a drilled well may need a larger casing.
The issue matters because a USDA-funded grant’s task order, county staff said, was written for a domestic well while the fairgrounds needs irrigation capacity; that mismatch affects what the county can spend under the existing award and the project schedule.
Nick (staff member) told the board the county has a feasibility estimate of “just under $11,000,000” for renovation work and that the study flagged accessibility and mechanical upgrades the county may want to add. “Because of that number being a little bit lower, if that’s something you guys thought we would…increase that or put a new…
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