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Allegan approves emergency directional drill repair and sewer lining design amid EGLE grant timeline
Summary
Council accepted an emergency purchase (~$12,313) to repair a city directional drill used in water-service replacements to avoid losing EGLE grant funding, and approved a $15,000 engineering PO to televise and line sewer sections on Grand and Water Streets.
City staff told council on June 9 that an emergency repair to a city-owned directional drill was necessary to avoid multi-week delays in replacing water service lines under a $3,000,000 EGLE grant. The city manager said the drill outage would have cost two to four water-service installations per day and jeopardized the city’s ability to spend remaining grant funds before an Aug. 31…
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