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Boone council approves new force-main route, upsizes main to 16 inches after Daisy flow update
Summary
City council approved a $1.6 million route for the Daisy industrial site's force main, and authorized upsizing the main to 16 inches after the plant reported higher-than-expected flows; the action moves a revised facility plan back to the Iowa DNR for approval.
Boone City Council voted to submit a revised facility-plan application to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for a new force-main route tied to the Daisy industrial site and to specify a 16-inch main rather than the previously planned 12-inch pipe.
The decision follows new information from Daisy showing its minimum equalized flow would be about 2,100 gallons per minute (gpm), higher than the roughly 1,300 gpm figure used in the city’s earlier facility plan. City public works staff said increasing the main to 16 inches would cost an additional about $150,000 but would roughly double capacity for the industrial area without requiring a larger force-main structure at the pump station.
The council’s action adopts “option 3,” a route that takes the force main toward Highway 30 and down along the edge of a park to minimize disruption in residential…
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