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Tarentum council outlines plan to replace century-old water mains, to pilot HDPE pipe
Summary
Council and staff described a multi-year strategy to repair the borough's aging water distribution system, noting 13 miles of original pipe past a 100-year lifespan, $3–4 million in recent grants for plant upgrades, and plans to pilot HDPE pipe for distribution-line replacement.
Tarentum Borough staff told council on Jan. 14 that the borough’s water distribution system requires multi-year work to replace aging mains and that the borough plans to pilot modern pipe materials as part of a phased replacement strategy.
Manager Dwight Bader said roughly "13 miles of line...are original" and "we are over the 100 year lifespan for those 13 miles." He told council the borough has secured about "3 to $4,000,000 worth of grants for the water plant itself" and that those funds address pumps, tanks and chemical feeds, which…
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