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Committee advances sewer, lift-station and utility easements tied to MDOT Fair Avenue project
Summary
The committee recommended moving forward multiple infrastructure items: sanitary sewer work funded by prior grants, recommended lift-station contract award, easements for power-pole relocation, and acceptance of an MDOT agreement that would require a $229,200 city utility participation for Fair Avenue utility work.
BENTON HARBOR — The City of Benton Harbor committee reviewed and recommended advancing a package of infrastructure measures on Tuesday, including sanitary sewer repairs tied to an EGLE administrative consent order, a recommended lift-station contract award, and utility easements needed for MDOT’s Fair Avenue reconstruction.
Jason Marquardt, a project engineer with Marsh, told the committee the city’s sanitary sewer program was funded by prior grant awards (reported in the packet as “19,000,000, $577,200”) and that the work addresses items EGLE placed in an administrative consent order. “These are items that EGLE has wrote into their administrative consent order,” Marquardt said, noting completed projects such as Pipestone, McAllister and Broadway and a list of smaller segments targeted for 2026.
Marquardt described planned 2026 work…
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