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Council authorizes emergency contract to repair South Street water main under railroad
Summary
Council authorized the city manager to award an emergency contract and contingency funds to replace a failed 12-inch water main under the railroad on South Street; staff said the work must be done before higher summer demands to avoid pressure drops and fire-flow risks.
The City Council adopted a resolution authorizing an emergency public-works contract to repair and replace a failed 12-inch cast-iron water main beneath the railroad on South Street and approved related project costs and contingencies.
Mr. Webb, a city staff member presenting the item, described a December failure of the roughly 70-year-old cast-iron main that runs in a corrugated metal casing under the railroad tracks. City crews isolated the leak between two valves and completed an emergency stop-gap repair, Webb said, but modeling shows that…
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