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Water Utilities to pilot repairs for failed sanitary laterals under city pavement
Summary
Lee's Summit Water Utilities will pilot a policy to repair owner-occupied single-family sanitary sewer laterals when a structural failure requires excavation under city streets; homeowners must apply and provide video evidence of a structural collapse.
Lee's Summit Deputy Director of Water Utilities Jeff Thorne told the Public Works Committee on Feb. 10 that his department will begin a pilot policy to repair sanitary sewer laterals that have structurally failed beneath city pavement and right of way for owner-occupied single-family houses.
Thorne said the change is an internal policy and does not require a change to city ordinance. "This is not a change to ordinance as it requires no vote of council or any of those kinds of things. It's just a policy change that we're making internally to our group," he said.
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