Utilities director outlines multimillion-dollar sewer and water projects; proposes modest rate increase

Mar 23, 2026

Utilities Director Will Sadler described a multi-year sewer rehabilitation plan (including lining 20,000 ft of sewer and a $1.3M contractor project), an SRF-funded force-main replacement and a phase-two wastewater plant project that may total about $6 million; staff recommended roughly a 4.5% combined water/sewer rate increase.

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Utilities Director Will Sadler presented the water and sewer fund outlook and a multi-year capital plan during the commission's budget work session. He described an ongoing sewer rehabilitation project that bids at about $1.3 million to line roughly 20,000 feet of sewer, repair about 100 manholes and reconnect active laterals; that project had begun construction in the weeks before the meeting.

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