The Jefferson city council will hold a public hearing and bid letting next Tuesday, Aug. 26, at 5:30 pm on a project to extend water and sewer lines to the Wild Rose Jefferson site and N. Mulberry St north of Highway 30. The water/sewer extension to Wild Rose will also provide capacity for the industrial park south of Syngenta Seeds.
The public hearing/bid letting process will also include relocating a water line on Wall St. The Iowa DNR is requiring the relocation to go around what city engineer John Milligan called a “pre-product plume.” The state will reimburse the city for the Wall St part of the project after it is completed.
Project specifications are now available at city hall. Bids will be opened next Monday, Aug. 25, at 11 am. The project west of Highway 4 will also serve future development at the industrial park south of Syngenta Seeds. For the public notice of the hearing and bid letting, click here: Hearing, letting
Mayor Craig Berry asked Milligan if the project is large enough, saying he didn’t want to be talking about expanding the project two years from now. According to Milligan, the water portion of the project is designed to “take care of anything that develops.” The sanitary portion is sized to take care of “reasonable expansion.” He said that if a user came in with extraordinary sanitary needs, the project was designed to be upgraded without extreme cost.
The lines will be bored under Highway 30. Milligan hopes the water portion will be done yet this fall and the sanitary work will be done in the spring.
The city will bear the cost of the water/sewer expansions. City administrator Mike Palmer has said the city will quickly recover the funds through increased property taxes paid by Wild Rose Jefferson.
