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St. Helens staff recommend RFP to pick site for new reservoir after decades of leaks and failed mitigation
Summary
City staff presented a request for proposals to select and design a replacement reservoir, saying consultants will evaluate four master-plan sites and recommend a preferred location for a 5,000,000-gallon facility; city leaders and a resident raised costs, land-purchase and geotechnical risks.
Mohammed Zeller, the city’s public works director, told the St. Helens City Council on Feb. 19 that staff plan to issue a request for proposals to select a site and later design and build a replacement reservoir to serve future growth.
Zeller said the city has exhausted options to rehabilitate the existing, roughly 100-year-old reservoir and is leaning toward building a new 5,000,000-gallon tank that would avoid recurring leaks and capacity limits. The RFP will task consultants with evaluating four candidate sites identified in the city’s updated master plan; the selected consultant will also assemble geotechnical, soils and other specialty studies needed…
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