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City to rehabilitate key lift station, add standby generator to reduce outage risk
Fergus Falls City Committee of the Whole · August 13, 2025
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Summary
Public works staff recommended moving a planned lift-station rehabilitation forward to address obsolete components at the Minnesota Motors station, proposing a retrofit with piping, pumps and a natural‑gas standby generator estimated below full replacement cost and to be funded from existing CIP allocations.
Len Taylor reported that the city's sanitary system includes 18 lift stations and that the Minnesota Motors station, built in 1970, contains components now obsolete and at risk of failure. He presented cost estimates showing a full replacement would exceed…
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