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Cookeville City Council will look to enter into an engineering agreement for storm sewer replacement on West Spring Street near South Cedar Avenue.
City Manager James Mills said the area has historically had issues with stormwater flooding the streets and nearby businesses.
“The Water Department has an agreement with the developer in this area to do some sanitary sewer improvements,” Mills said. “And we felt like since the street was going to be dug up for sanitary sewer, we knew there were issues with the stormwater, we felt like it best to do them both at the same time.”
Public Works Director Blake Mayo said the issues come from the way the storm sewer was originally installed. He said he has extensively researched why the storm sewer was constructed in this way, but did not find answers.
“It’s a three-by-three box and a 42-inch box going into one location and it leaves out the 24,” Mayo said. “I have no idea how it got that way (…) We have the Water Department’s help to be able to camera and see what all’s going on to tie in. We’re actually going to run a 48-inch pipe.”
Mayo said the cost for the engineering work will sit at some $14,500. He said once the engineering plans are complete, the project itself will come back to the city to be put out to bid.
