Chanute-Pall Mall Utility District Water Line Mapping Nearly Complete

Byrdstown lacks just a couple of days work to finish mapping the Chanute-Pall Mall water district.

The city has been working on the project since it acquired the district in the spring of 2021. Mayor Sam Gibson said the the new map will make it easy to find the different kinds of water lines and where they are located throughout the district.

“We want it where we can, you know, I can get up and go to the map, or anyone else can, and look at the map and say, you know, ‘There’s a flush valve there or a water hydrant here and there’s a cutoff valves are there and that’s a two-inch line, it’s a four, it’s a six, it’s eight,'” Gibson said.

Gibson said the Chanute-Pall Mall Utility District had a difficult time setting up and maintaining their water lines when they were independent.

“Not being a county or city utility district sort of limited them, and it kind of handicapped them from being able to apply for the same type of grants and funds that’s out there available for government,” Gibson said “You know, for city and county. And so they were limited in that area and it’s just hard for them to survive, a small utility district, it’s just hard for them to survive the way everything was going.”

The city received a $50,000 planning grant in the summer of 2022 to fund the project. Gibson said city is one or two days away from locating the last of the water lines in the area and will create an official map for the district next.

“Then it’ll go to print, you know, go to the, you know, putting it on a disc and even a map,” Gibson said.

Gibson said the new map may be an individual work containing only the utility district or the map of Pickett County may be redrawn to include it.