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Council awards Cedar Street water-main replacement amid debate over asset-management priority
Summary
The council awarded a pipe-burst replacement for a 1928 cast-iron water main on Cedar Street—citing pressure concerns where a new 8" police-station main meets the older 6" main—but one council member voted no, arguing the project leapfrogged the published asset management plan.
The St. Clair Shores City Council voted 5–1 to award the Cedar Street water-main replacement project to the low bidder (Bidder Gary) using a pipe-burst replacement method, with a 10% contingency, after engineers said the existing 6" cast-iron main (installed in 1928) is at elevated risk of failure and is hydraulically constrained where it connects to a recently replaced 8" main near the police station.
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