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Lancaster City presents environmental review and funding plan for $40–50 million water transmission main
Summary
Lancaster City public works officials outlined an environmental assessment, permit needs, funding status and timeline for phases 2 and 3 of a large-diameter transmission main that the city says will add redundancy to the system serving about 120,000 people.
Lancaster City public works officials on Tuesday presented an environmental assessment and permitting plan for phases 2 and 3 of a large-diameter transmission main, a project the city estimates will cost between $40 million and $50 million.
The project would add a redundant raw-water and finished-water main to replace aging infrastructure installed in 1955 and to extend the redundant main completed in 2022. Chris Hildich, deputy director of public works for Lancaster (Utilities), said the system serves more than 120,000 county residents and that a 2012 leak on the older line — which cost about $200,000 to fix — underlined the need for improved transmission infrastructure. "We needed better infrastructure so that this wouldn't be an issue in the future," Hildich said.
The utilities bureau is preparing an environmental assessment under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) because parts of the project would be in the floodplain and include multiple stream…
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