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Flagstaff council OKs grant submission for Big Fill Lake flood-mitigation project
Summary
The Flagstaff City Council voted to authorize submission of a state match application for the Saligman Sub Big Fill Lake project, a roughly $19 million effort to upgrade drainage under the BNSF embankment, reduce floodway limits and open about 200 acres for redevelopment.
Flagstaff City Council on Feb. 3 authorized staff to submit a state match application for the Saligman Sub Big Fill Lake project, the city’s proposal to replace undersized drainage beneath the BNSF embankment and Route 66 and reduce flood risk on the city’s east side.
Ed Shanks, Stonemar section director, told council the project at 100% design would replace two undersized culverts with five new tunnels — four 8-foot-diameter pipes and one 9-foot-diameter pipe sized to allow future pedestrian and bicycle access — and reconstruct inlet and outlet structures for both the railroad and Route 66. Shanks said the construction opinion of probable cost is about…
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