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Council agrees to seek independent review of wastewater facility plan amid rising cost estimates

3280667 · May 13, 2025
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Summary

City staff recommended and the council agreed to request proposals for an independent review of the 2017 wastewater facility plan after project cost estimates rose to about $66 million for construction.

City staff told the Oskaloosa City Council on May 5 that the city’s wastewater resource recovery facility planning process, begun in 2017, now faces materially different market conditions and scope changes; the council agreed to seek proposals for an independent review.

The city has been working with Foxstrand (transcript name variant) Associates on designs to replace the…

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