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Pulaski engineering overview: water, sewer and transportation projects total tens of millions; filter plant a $25 million priority
Summary
Town engineer Austin Painter told council the town's capital-improvement pipeline includes $27.43 million in water projects (including a $25 million filter plant upgrade), roughly $6.5 million in sewer work (including the interceptor), and about $17 million in transportation projects; several projects are awaiting funding or design steps.
Austin Painter, the town engineer, gave an overview of ongoing and proposed capital-improvement projects and recurring engineering task items.
Painter said water projects total approximately $27,430,000 overall with nearly $25,000,000 associated with a raw water pump station and filter-plant rehabilitation; he said about $3,000,000 in grants and just under $1,000,000 in loans are already allocated for portions of the work. The lead service line program remains active, with 333 service-line connections yet to be documented under the Virginia Department of Health’s statistical-identification approach.
On sewer, Painter listed roughly $6.5 million in projects, the largest being the Pulaski interceptor rehabilitation (discussed separately by CHA). He said an infiltration-and-inflow abatement project is on hold pending funding and another recent grant funded a sewer pump-station preliminary engineering report.
Transportations projects number eight for a combined total near $17 million, including three bridge projects and a streetscape effort that is in finalization steps; Painter said one bridge bid came back higher than estimates and is being reworked. Painter also noted environmental work: floodplain acquisition efforts and Army Corps work on a low-head dam that has been paused after soil tests.
Painter closed by highlighting general-property projects (basement flood remediation and a cemetery GIS digitization project), noting the latter is in finalization and will unify burial records into the town GIS.
Council members asked follow-up questions about PCB testing (which Painter said has come back lower than initial expectations, with exact numbers not specified) and business-owner feedback on streetscape part 2 (mixed views). Painter offered to follow up with specifics as requested.
