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La Porte Board tables agreement after debate over plastic water main in Fale Road development
Summary
La Porte’s Board of Public Works and Safety on Jan. 7 voted to table a proposed development agreement addressing a private water main installed with plastic pipe on the Fale Road development, after an extended discussion about the city’s construction standards and long‑term liability.
La Porte’s Board of Public Works and Safety on Jan. 7 voted to table a proposed development agreement addressing a private water main installed with plastic pipe on the Fale Road development, after an extended discussion about the city’s construction standards and long‑term liability.
The board’s action came after Tim Werner, the city department head who presented the item, described that a developer had installed an HDPE plastic main past the property line and that the city’s crews do not maintain or repair plastic mains. “We’re a ductile‑iron city,” Werner said. “We would shut it off at the tapping valve in the street, which would kill that whole line, because we just we just don’t work on plastic.”
The discussion centered on two issues: operational limits for La Porte’s…
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