BLAKESBURG —
Blakesburg city officials were updated this week on the community’s sanitary sewer rehab project.
Project Engineer Kent Rice told members of the Blakesburg City Council that phase I of the project will include updating the lagoon, lining about 4,000 feet of sewer line and grouting 4,500 feet of sewer in the western part of town, which will be a little more than half of the project. Rice said the construction portion of the contract should be about $532,000 with a total of roughly $645,000 including administrative and other costs.
The project is to be funded with a $3,000 CDBG grant and a Sanitary Sewer Improvement low-interest loan through the state of Iowa. While construction cost estimates have risen a little since last year when planning for the project began, the interest rate on the approximately $345,000 will be a little lower than last year, Rice said. Sewer rates will be increased to pay off the loan.
Rice anticipates work on the project will begin in November, with completion sometime next spring. He warned the council that unexpected delays and costs often occur in construction as projects progress.
Wapello County
September 6, 2012
Blakesburg updated on sewer rehab
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