Tooele public works director reviews five years of road, water and wastewater upgrades; council moves to closed meeting on litigation and property

Tooele Public Works Director Jamie Grandpre presented a five-year update to the Tooele City Council on Oct. 15, outlining completed and ongoing projects in streets, water, water reclamation and fleet operations and citing recent investments including an $8,600,000 headworks building at the city’s wastewater treatment plant.

In a summary slide to the council, Grandpre said, "I just wanna take a moment to highlight some of your major accomplishments from the past 5 years." He described street resurfacing and widening projects, new and upgraded traffic signals, well-house work and upgrades at the water reclamation plant that, he said, substantially increased treatment capacity.

The projects matter to residents because they affect safety, service reliability and long-term operating costs, Grandpre said. The presentation covered transportation work (mill-and-overlay, chip-seal and a trial mineral-bond surface), stormwater and culvert work, additions to the city’s traffic-signal inventory, new well infrastructure and larger wastewater-treatment equipment that city staff said lowers regulatory risk and expands capacity.

Key details from the presentation and council discussion:

- Wastewater treatment: Grandpre described a recently completed headworks building at the wastewater treatment facility and said, "This $8,600,000 building is a very nice building and a very nice addition to the city." He said the new headworks brings the plant to approximately 14,000,000 gallons per day (gpd) capacity with a…