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Birmingham officials weigh hiring consultant to map decades of aging pipes and roads
Summary
At a March 9 workshop the Birmingham City Commission and staff laid out a standalone capital-improvement master-plan proposal, noting roughly 100 miles of water main (about 38% installed in or before 1929), rising maintenance costs and a staff request for $200,000 to hire a consultant to produce an interactive CIP and financial model.
Mayor and commissioners opened a workshop on March 9 to begin a citywide conversation about a capital improvement master plan and how to pay for decades of deferred infrastructure work.
City Manager (speaker S2) told the commission Birmingham is an older, built-out community with constrained resources and repeated water-main breaks this year, and that the city needs better tools to explain priorities to the public. Engineering staff Melissa (speaker S8) presented condition data: about 100 miles of water main within the city, roughly 38% of which were installed in or before 1929, and a similar share for sewer. She said recent PASER pavement assessments improved the citywide average from 4.28 in 2021 to about 5.27, but the system still falls short of the typical…
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