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• 3 1 A. Lift Station Should Be Replaced 2 He said his firm was recommending a new lift station be constructed 3 next to the existing one and estimated the cost of doing that would- 4 be $198 ,000. The reasons he gave for replacement were that: 5 *the station had been built in 1962 and, with both pumps in opera- 6 tion, only 1 , 000 gallons per minute were being pumped with a head 7 of 59 feet, where the original design had called for a pumping 8 capacity of 1 , 200 gallons per minute for each pump to serve the 9 area north of 37th Avenue N.E. , once it was fully developed; 10 *there may have been a problem with the original head computa- 11 tions which differed greatly from the figures the engineers had 12 come up with now; 13 *the soil around the station was very corrosive, which has dam- 14 aged the structure and its current location near the potato chip 15 factory may have overtaxed the facility; 16 *by delaying replacement for two or so years, the City would be 17 just pouring more money into repairs for which parts are very 18 difficult to find, or not being manufactured at all anymore; 0 19 *the pump would likely be overloaded during periods of very wet 20 weather like the storm the City experienced July 23rd; 21 22 *life of a new station would be between 25 and 40 years; 23 *the well is not unsafe at this time but should be replaced 24 before it gets into that condition. 25 B. Force Main Would Not Require Immediate Replacement 26 The engineer said, although the above equipment was old and had 27 less friction rate than was desirable, it was still in reasonably 28 good condition, however, because it would cost a great deal to dig 29 down to actually verify this condition, Mr. Christofferson recom- 30 mended that, if the City upgrades any of the adjacent streets, a 31 sample of the force main and the surrounding soil be taken to be 32 sent to the Cast Iron Institute, who will do the tests free of 33 charge. 34 C. Public Works Director Concurs with Engineering Study 35 Mr. Hamer told Councilmember Makowske the report "only echoed" what 36 he had been telling the Council for the last seven years. He 37 acknowledged that -the City had gotten that many more years out of 08 the old facility, but indicated he was disappointed money had not 39 been put away over that period to make the necessary replacement 40 now.