Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Infrastructure Public Works topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
City staff outline $millions in street, water and wastewater projects and timelines
Summary
Public works engineer Mark Hathcock presented a detailed update on ongoing and planned street, water and wastewater projects, including the Pinon Hills intersection, Foothills and San Juan Boulevard phases, a hydrant telemetry program, lead/copper inventory results and a proposed dam-raise study.
Mark Hathcock, engineering lead for Farmington’s water and wastewater programs, gave the council a comprehensive update on ongoing and upcoming public-works and capital-improvement projects, covering streets, drainage, waterlines, hydrant telemetry and treatment-plant work.
Hathcock said the Pinon Hills intersection project is the largest current road project, listed at $4,044,200 and reported as about 59% complete with a contract deadline in February next year. He said the remaining major work there is paving and installation of mast-arm traffic signals. “That’s about a $4,044,200 project. It’s about 59% complete. The deadline is in February of next year,” Hathcock said.
Other street projects include a drainage and mill-and-inlay work on Hood Mesa Trail (roughly $100,000 for drainage, $180,000 for milling), phase 3 of the Foothills project (about $3,300,000), West Main/Broadway resurfacing (about $2,300,000), and phase 2 of San Juan Boulevard (about $1,000,000, starting in June). Hathcock also discussed multi-stage work on 30th Street, where paving is scheduled to begin July 7 for the first segment; he said water-line replacements are being coordinated with paving work when possible.
Hathcock described water-system investments including the iHydrant telemetry project (approximately $1,300,000) that retrofitted 77 hydrants and will replace about 67 additional hydrants that could not be retrofitted. On the city’s lead-and-copper inventory, Hathcock reported, “Great news that we haven't found any lead,” and said the inventory had identified galvanized service lines that staff plan to replace over time. He estimated the polyline (service-line replacement) program covers roughly 1,200 services so far.
Hathcock outlined plans for a new chemical building at the water treatment plant (estimated around $5,000,000, to be bid later this year), a dam-raise study about 50% complete, and a Water Trust Board grant application of about $8,700,000 for the La Plata waterline project to replace older 6- and 8-inch lines with a larger PVC transmission line.
Operations and system-maintenance projects included a valve repair/replace program (about $975,000 to repair or replace roughly 88 valves) and ongoing manhole replacements and spot sanitary sewer repairs; Hathcock said the city is budgeting about $1,000,000 per year for manhole work and considering $3.5 million per year for larger manhole-to-manhole replacement projects.
Councilors asked scheduling and traffic-control questions, including whether temporary lane reductions will be timed to minimize impacts, and whether water-line work is coordinated ahead of final paving; Hathcock said coordination with the paving schedule is his goal and that arterial streets receive special planning. City Manager Rob Mays said staff will post project schedules and routing information on the city’s social media and website so residents can plan alternative routes during construction.
