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Consultants find Stevens Lake sediment benign but warn dam leakage may need up to $750,000 to breach; URA renews Oasis on-call contract
Summary
Oasis Consulting reported sediment samples at Stevens Lake are largely benign but a dam inspection showed leakage and potential spillway issues; the URA approved renewal of Oasis’s $65,000 on-call environmental contract and discussed a $67,000 design study and a possible $750,000 capital cost to breach or repair the dam.
Oasis Consulting told the URA that sediment sampling at Stevens Lake returned largely benign results, but a field inspection and geotechnical borings revealed leakage in the dam’s spillway and areas that could undermine the structure if left unaddressed.
"The sediments at the bottom of Stevens Lake actually turned out to be fairly benign or innocuous," said the Oasis representative, who also reported that soil…
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