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Englewood approves amendment to state revolving fund loan to add valves, priority line work
Summary
The Englewood City Utilities Board approved an amendment to its Drinking Water Revolving Fund loan to fund insertion valves, priority distribution-line replacements and to add authorized city officers to the loan documents.
Englewood City Utilities Board members approved an amendment to the city’s State Revolving Fund (SRF) leveraged loan to shift about $10 million toward distribution-system work, including insertion valves and targeted pipe replacements.
Sarah (last name not specified), a utilities staff member, told the board the city originally closed on roughly $40,000,000 in funding through two federal- and state-backed mechanisms. She said refinements to the lead-service-line inventory reduced the expected cost of that lead-replacement program from about $40,000,000 to around $30,000,000, leaving roughly $10,000,000 available for distribution-system investments.
The amendment authorizes using SRF leveraged funds for insertion valves in specific locations shown on the staff map, and for priority pipe projects including the Clarkson line (in the North Central zone) and a previously designed Union Avenue replacement in the southwest portion of the city. Staff also described an alternate, future project to connect the Allen Water Treatment Plant directly to Zone 2 in the distribution system.
Sarah said the state reviewed the proposed scope and confirmed the SRF leveraged loan can fund the insertion valves and the named pipeline work. She also asked to amend the loan’s list of authorized city officers to add herself and another utilities staff member and to remove two Public Works representatives that had been carried forward from an earlier Public Works loan document.
Board members asked whether adding the valves would change the program timeline; Sarah said it would not, adding the current contractor (AGL) will install insertion valves in the next zone before replacing lead services there. One board member also asked whether the omission of Sarah and the other utilities staff from the authorized-officers list was an oversight; Sarah said it was a holdover from the previous loan paperwork for Public Works and that the amendment simply corrects the authorized-officers list.
The board voted to approve the amendment as written. The motion passed.
