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Committee recommends $3.2 million from water retained earnings to replace failing Montello Street 20-inch main
Summary
The committee voted to transfer $3.2 million from water retained earnings to a new capital fund to replace a repeatedly failing 20-inch water main on Montello Street; staff said the pipe has failed six times in 18 months and the work will include road reconstruction and sidewalks.
The Brockton City Council Committee recommended transferring $3,200,000 from FY water retained earnings into a new water-main capital fund to repair a 20-inch water main on Montello Street after repeated failures.
Patrick Hill, DPW commissioner, told the committee the 20-inch main between Crescent and Lawrence streets has failed six times over the past 18 months. “Each time that we have a failure, we lose approximately a million gallons of…
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