[Press Release] : Groundbreaking ceremony planned for Vandiver Drive Extension and Upper Hinkson Creek Outfall Project

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 26, 2009

CONTACT: Public Works Department 
(573) 874-7250

Groundbreaking ceremony planned for Vandiver Drive Extension and Upper
Hinkson Creek Outfall Project
								
	(COLUMBIA, MO) - The city of Columbia invites the public to a
groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of Vandiver Drive and the
Upper Hinkson Creek Outfall project Wednesday, March 4, at 10 a.m. The
ceremony will be held at the Mexico Gravel Road sewer lift station, off
Mexico Gravel Road. 
	This project will consist of new street pavement from the Mexico
Gravel Road to Vandiver Drive with two new roundabouts, one at Vandiver
Drive and the other at Mexico Gravel Road, and new sidewalk. The project
will also include new sewer for the upper Hinkson Creek area. The sewer
portion of the project consists of constructing approximately 7,300
linear feet of 36-inch gravity sewer that will parallel and replace an
existing 18-inch gravity sewer line, eliminate the Mexico Gravel Road
pump station and eliminate four sewer line siphons across Hinkson Creek.

 	The total cost for this project is $6.7 million, which is funded
by the Special Road District Tax, Transportation Sales Tax, ¼ cent
Capital Improvement Sales Tax, 2003 Sanitary Sewer Ballot Issue, Capital
Fund Balance and Development Charges.
	The project is expected to be completed in late fall 2009.
Expanding Vandiver Drive will significantly help connectivity to and
from the north part of Columbia.

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