Council approves engineering contract to replace undersized water mains after repeated breaks
Council approved an engineering-services agreement with Snyder Associates to replace multiple stretches of 4-inch water main with 8-inch main, improve fire-flow, and identify unknown service laterals; staff proposed reallocating $125,000 to the project.
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The council voted to approve an engineering-services agreement to design and implement a multi-segment water-distribution improvement project after repeated breaks on 1st Street. Staff described the work as replacing several 4-inch mains with 8-inch main to increase capacity and fire flow, and to inspect and document service laterals required by the state DNR. "We had allocated $125,000 towards some street patching, and that was part of a project... I would like to ask the council's blessing on... move that $125,000 and water distribution system improvements," staff said.
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