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Des Moines advances pipe replacements and estuary design; $16.5 million construction placeholder expected to seek grants
Summary
Alex Johnson, surface water engineer, told the Committee of the Whole that staff plan to replace aged corrugated metal pipe and that the estuary project will reach 30% design in Q1 with a $16.5 million construction placeholder expected to be grant-funded.
Alex Johnson, the city's surface water engineer, briefed the committee on several surface-water capital projects, including a 2,000-foot replacement of aged corrugated metal pipe on Fifth Avenue and 212th Street, the estuary project and a recently revised 16th Avenue pipe project.
On the Fifth Avenue/212th project, Johnson said the existing corrugated metal pipe will…
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