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Council approves easement for 6-inch gas main to serve Seward Rail Campus
Summary
Seward City Council approved a permanent easement allowing Black Hills Energy to install a 6-inch steel gas main and associated infrastructure to serve the Seward Rail Campus, connecting a new town border station to on-site distribution.
The Seward City Council voted unanimously to authorize the mayor to sign an easement granting Black Hills Energy access across city-owned property to install a 6-inch steel gas main to serve the Seward Rail Campus.
City staff presented the four-page easement and an Exhibit A showing the requested 15-foot-wide easement along the south and west property lines of the city-owned parcel that contains the burn site, compost pile and closed dump. Mike (city staff) described the route: the gas line will run from a second town border station, trench across a city parcel, continue across private property behind Walmart, bore under the highway and enter the rail campus to connect to a prepped valve at Brooklyn Boulevard and Highway 15.
Mike said the line will be steel up to a pressure-regulating station near the highway, then convert to plastic for the remainder of the path into the rail campus. He described the easement as necessary to provide more capacity for large users at the rail campus and to reduce the line length from the existing single town border station that serves the city.
Council action: A motion to approve the easement passed 7–0.
What comes next: Black Hills Energy will proceed with their trenching and easement use per the executed agreement; city staff said the document is primarily a permanent easement to allow construction and ongoing access for the main.
