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Sonoma Water outlines transmission system projects; Santa Rosa asked for local cost and program details
Summary
Sonoma Water told Santa Rosa council on Jan. 7, 2025, it is advancing a multi-year program of aqueduct, tank, well and booster-station work intended to improve seismic resilience and emergency response capacity across the regional transmission system.
Kent Guilfie, director of engineering for Sonoma Water, briefed the Santa Rosa City Council during its Jan. 7, 2025 meeting on a broad slate of capital projects and system maintenance to improve water transmission reliability and seismic resilience.
What Sonoma Water presented: Guilfie said the agency is pursuing multiple construction and design projects across wells, storage tanks and aqueducts. Key items include: rehabilitation of three Santa Rosa plain collector wells (including a Todd Road well returned to production during the recent drought and Occidental Road and Sebastopol Road well work underway), a 10-year, $80 million tank rehabilitation program addressing coatings and cathodic protection, the Cotati 3 18-million-gallon tank recoating and foundation retrofit, and a multi-phase upgrade to aqueduct cathodic protection systems. He also described regional…
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