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Draft CIP includes planning funds for alternative water distribution; trustees debate pre-contract planning for VIDA
Summary
The town's draft five-year capital improvement plan includes line-item funding for distribution planning to connect an alternative water source. Trustees debated whether to set aside planning funds before any contract with VIDA or another supplier is signed but agreed to retain the line as a draft planning allocation.
Town staff presented a draft five-year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) that includes a new line for “alternative water-source distribution master planning,” prompting trustees to debate whether to budget planning funds before a source-contract decision.
The CIP description covers engineering and planning work to design transmission mains, chlorine booster stations, pressure-reducing infrastructure and a potential 3,000,000-gallon storage tank should an alternative source be built and tied into Wellington’s system.
Trustee Teets raised objections…
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