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Big Lake seeks $25 million in state bonding for wastewater expansion; city says plant at 90% capacity
Summary
Big Lake officials told the committee their wastewater plant is at about 90% capacity, limiting development; the city seeks $25,000,000 from the bonding bill toward a $52.8 million expansion and said without help residents face larger rate increases.
The City of Big Lake asked the House Capital Investment Committee for $25,000,000 in state bonding to help fund a $52,800,000 expansion of its wastewater treatment plant.
Mayor Paul Kinnear and city administrator Hannah Klimick testified that the plant is at roughly 90% capacity, curbing new residential and commercial development. "At 90% it won't be just too long before we will have to…
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