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Punta Gorda utilities board outlines $38M-plus infrastructure needs, multiple water and sewer projects
Summary
City residents and utilities staff discussed aging stormwater and sewer infrastructure, replacement of clay and cast-iron mains, planned storage-tank options and a slate of capital projects including a major lift-station basin replacement and treatment-plant upgrades.
Residents and utilities staff told the Punta Gorda Utilities Advisory Board on May 19 that the city faces extensive stormwater and sewer infrastructure needs and reviewed a multi-million-dollar slate of projects to address failing pipes and treatment capacity.
The concerns were raised during public comment and in the utilities director’s operational report, which listed current and planned capital work including distribution system upgrades, a possible replacement of an elevated storage tank with a larger ground storage tank, upgrades at the wastewater treatment plant and a near-term bid for replacement of clay sewer lines in the Lift Station 30 basin.
“Recently, it has come about that we have, over $38,000,000 in infrastructure that needs to be addressed to our storm water facilities,”…
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