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Council reviews task order for alternate water-supply study; PBAC and state funds cited
Summary
City staff presented Task Order No. 9 — a 12-month study to evaluate an alternate water supply from the Clearwater River, including supply assessment, conceptual design, permitting and stakeholder engagement. HDR Engineering is the consultant; Idaho funding of $182,500 was cited.
City staff presented Task Order No. 9 to the Moscow City Council, a study contract scope to evaluate an alternate water supply from the Clearwater River for the Palouse Groundwater Basin. The presentation described the basin's long-term decline and framed the work as a discovery and planning phase that would test feasibility and identify regulatory, design and cost hurdles.
Tyler (city staff and PBAC representative) told the council the Palouse Basin Groundwater is the sole source of drinking water for several cities and both regional universities and that the basin has been subject to long-term groundwater decline. He described four study…
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