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City manager reviews 2024 accomplishments and 2025 projects, highlights water resiliency and airport expansion
Summary
City Manager Warren Wood told the Jan. 7 Hickory City Council the city will prioritize water resiliency, wastewater capacity projects and several grant-funded transportation, airport and park projects in 2025, and highlighted near-term construction and permitting steps.
City Manager Warren Wood on Jan. 7 delivered the Hickory City Council’s year-in-review and a look ahead at 2025, emphasizing water and wastewater resiliency, transportation and airport projects, park improvements and the city’s bond-and-grant-driven capital program.
Wood said the city is selecting a design firm to renovate storage at the former Longview water plant, is conducting a feasibility study on interconnectivity with nearby water systems, and is evaluating the need for a second water treatment plant and a secondary water intake. He said the city will select a firm this year to implement an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) program to automate meter reading over roughly a three-year rollout and to improve leak detection and data-driven capital planning.
Wood described two FEMA-funded pump station projects (Falling Creek and Snow Creek) scheduled to begin construction this year to protect pump stations from flooding, and he described work to divert some flow from the Moose Club pump station toward the Henry Fork wastewater plant to relieve capacity…
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