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CITY PROJECT UPDATE EVERTON from City Engineer Dave Mitchell Continued from Page 3 130th Street-Lift-Station R: R�': The Everton Avenue study will be presented at a joint Planning Construction of the piping and pump station on this sanitary sewer lift station Commission and City Council meet- between Flay Avenue and Goodview Avenue on the south side of 130th Street ing on April 9. The primary purpose North is complete, and the lift station is operational. Restoration and final clean- of this meeting will be to finalize the up will occur this spring. The project will provide sanitary sewer service to the 5th land use plan for the neighborhood. Addition of Beaver Ponds and the surrounding area as it develops. The overall cost of the study is approximately $279,000, with just Production Well No. 3 wf�m over $209,000 being financed by a Well No. 3 has been completed and tested. The City Engineer's office has com- five-year zero interest loan from the pleted the construction documents for the well's pump house improvements. The Metropolitan Council. While the improvement will be bid on March 29,2001 and awarded to a contractor in April. city has had to pay the up-front cost Construction will:begin in early May.' This well should be operational early this of the study, it will ultimately be reimbursed by assessing a surcharge to summer. property owners and developers in the Everton Avenue neighborhood at the NMI Water Tower time they develop their property. The City Engineer's office has completed the construction documents for Water City Administrator Mike Ericson Tower No. 3, located immediately northwest of the Creekview Preserve 3rd called the Everton Avenue study an Addition, northwest of 159th Street North. The improvement will be -bid on "unheard of partnership between the March 29, 2001 and awarded to a contractor in April. Construction will begin in city, developers, residents, and prop- May,and the City expects the new tower to be operational in the summer of 2002. erty owners." City Council Member Chuck Haas commented further on the project's success. "Everybody ' Water Main Extensions a._ came out a winner in one fashion or The City Engineer's office has completed the construction documents for water another. It's very seldom that you main extensions to connect Well No. 3 and Water Tower No. 3 to the existing have a whole group of citizens and water system. The improvement will be bid on April 12, 2001 and awarded to a developers not only get along so well, contractor in April. Construction will begin in May, and the work will,be com- but appreciate the work of the staff pleted this summer. and the consultants to the extent that they gave them a round of applause at the end. That tells me that our citi- 7 71 p Peloquin Industrial Park- zens are well served and they appreci- m ated the job the City did for them." This project will provide sewer and water utilities to the Peloquin Industrial Park area and will include the extension of sanitary sewer from the southeast corner of / the Creekview Preserve development. As part of the project, the street and storm sewer system will be improved to meet City standards. The City opened bids for the improvements on March 9 and is currently working to secure construction easements. The City Council will consider an award of the construction contract in April. The project would be substantially complete in November, 2001 with final restoration and paving to be completed before the summer of 2002.