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Daytona Beach Shores approves $2.45 million in sewer design work, applies for federal hazard-mitigation funds and okays emergency pump purchase
Summary
The City Commission approved a package of actions on June 3 to design three sewer resiliency projects (totaling about $2.45 million in design costs), authorized staff to pursue a FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant application, and approved an emergency purchase to replace a failed pump at Station 5.
The Daytona Beach Shores City Commission on June 3 approved a series of sewer-related measures: a budget amendment to fund engineering design for three projects, authorization to apply for federal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMPG) funds, approval of a sanitary sewer design contract, and an emergency purchase of a replacement pump for a critical lift station.
City staff said the measures are intended to make the city’s aging sewer system more resilient and to make the projects shovel-ready for grant funding. Finance Director Lori Erwin told commissioners the commission is being asked to appropriate design funds now so the city can apply promptly for grants as they become available.
City staff described three discrete design tasks: master pump station work (design cost cited as about $975,792), force-main upgrades (about $1,398,103) and manhole and retrofit work north of Dunlawton (about $77,391). Director Erwin said those items together were presented as a total design package the commission was…
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