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<p style="font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">October 8, 2024</p>
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<br />Matthew.Nestor@CoMo.gov</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:150%;"><h1 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Interested parties meeting scheduled for sanitary sewer rehabilitation project in central and west Columbia</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The City of Columbia Sewer Utility has scheduled an interested parties meeting to discuss a proposed sewer rehabilitation project that will update sewers in many areas across central and west Columbia. The meeting is set for 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, in Conference Room 1B at City Hall, 701 E. Broadway.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sewer Utility has preliminary plans to rehabilitate sewer lines throughout the Flat Branch drainage basin, downtown, the Meredith Branch drainage basin and in the lower County House Branch drainage basin. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The proposed method is trenchless and is less invasive than traditional methods. A contractor places a liner inside an aging pipe then blows steam to expand and harden the liner. The result is a reinforced pipe without a shovel breaking the dirt.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Crews will rehabilitate approximately 120,000 feet of sewer pipe to repair structural deficiencies and to reduce occurrences of inflow and infiltration into the sewer main. The budget for this project is approximately $9.2 million and will be paid for by Sewer Utility Funds.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Information and diagrams showing preliminary concepts will be available for public review, and Sewer Utility staff will be present to answer questions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Questions and comments will also be accepted online at </span><a style="white-space:nowrap" href="http://beheard.como.gov/central-west-sewer-rehabilitation"><span style="font-weight: 400;">BeHeard.CoMo.gov</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> through Oct. 29.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For more information, contact Nate Runyan at 573.441.5482 or </span><a style="white-space:nowrap" href="mailto:Nathan.Runyan@CoMo.gov"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nathan.Runyan@CoMo.gov</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p></div>
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