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Highland Park outlines meter, main and lead-line work as city presses toward long-term fixes
Summary
Water director Damon Garrett described completed master meters, a large lead-service-line replacement push (about 1,000 lines), restoration and contractor issues, and a plan to post project maps and hold quarterly town halls to improve outreach.
Highland Park’s water director, Damon Garrett, told viewers on Ask HP Live that the city has completed three master-meter installations and is pressing ahead with a major program to replace lead service lines, upgrade aging mains and improve long-standing service issues.
"Highland Park is officially, metered on the water side," Garrett said, calling the work "a historic moment" after the city went without metered water since 2012. He said two master meters were completed by July and a third at John R and McNichols was finished in mid-October, a change he said will allow more accurate billing and the possibility of rate relief.
Garrett described two concurrent infrastructure efforts: the recently wrapped “23” water-main project and a larger “24” project that will replace roughly 1,000 lead service lines in the current grant-funded tranche. "With this one project, we are going to…
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