Bowen Hill Sewer Project update
by Duane Williams, KLCB-KTNY Radio
August 13, 2010
The Libby City Council voted Monday evening to drive the cost of the Bowen Hill Sewer Project a total of $200,000 over the original project budget.
Early on the Council decided to replace the pavement on the roads in the area with an upgraded "double shot chip seal" surface, as opposed to patching the sewer line trenches. The original surface was a chip seal surface. That upgrade took the project $116,000 over the original design.
Residents of the recently annexed Bowen Hill area protested the results of the double chip seal, due to potholes, surface inconsistency, misplaced manholes, dust, lack of two percent crown for drainage, among other deficiencies.
The Council voted to spend another $80,000 to apply a one-inch asphalt top surface over the new "double shot chip seal".
After a lengthy discussion of trading county labor for city gravel, outstanding economic development loan payment reductions, and contractor credits it was decided the City will pay the cost directly from either International Paper money or the Economic Development Fund.
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Story by Duane Williams, KLCB-KTNY Radio, www.todaysbestcountryonline.com, e-mail: klcb@frontiernet.net
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