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Tonawanda staff: leftover sewer-lining bond funds cannot be repurposed for a different sanitary sewer segment
Summary
City staff reported that leftover bond funds originally authorized for a specific sewer-lining project cannot legally be used to pay for lining work on a different street and recommended alternatives including using general fund dollars or doing no work after video inspection found no urgent defect.
City staff told the Tonawanda Common Council that leftover borrowing authorized for sewer lining on Fletcher Street cannot be transferred to pay for lining of a different sanitary sewer segment, and outlined options for addressing a short section of unlined sanitary pipe.
Public works staff said in-house engineering, use of county unit prices and spot repairs on the original project produced significant savings in the sewer bond. Staff inspected a short unlined segment near Hackett and Rogers and reported the pipe showed no clear…
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