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Kearney staff brief planning commission on updated water and sewer master plans; city tracking major projects and funding
Summary
A consultant and utilities director briefed the Kearney City Planning Commission on updated sewer and water capacity, major trunk-main projects tracked at roughly $58 million for sewer and $39 million for water, state revolving fund planning, and a recent $2 million EDA grant for a 30-inch trunk main.
The Kearney City Planning Commission received an updated briefing on the city's water and sanitary-sewer infrastructure and capital needs, including capacity figures, high-priority trunk-main projects and funding sources such as the State Revolving Fund (SRF) and an Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant.
Craig Bennett, presenting an updated set of planning studies to the commission, described how trunk mains and lift stations built over the past three decades enabled growth and explained the city's current capacity. “We have 3.8 MGD, million gallons per day, average daily use of waste stream that goes to our treatment plant,” Bennett said, adding that the…
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