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Cookeville City Council will consider entering an engineer and design contract for the Phifer Mountain Water Booster Station.
Water and Sewer Director Ronnie Kelly said that the city absorbed the Dry Valley Utility District in 1989, but that it was established in the sixties. He said that this project would help with capacity and water pressure issues serving the 25 homes in the area.
“This will alleviate that and sort of answer some of those questions and comments we’ve been getting,” Kelly said. “And it’s old infrastructure and it does need to be upgraded.”
Kelly said that they estimate the work to cost over $500,000. He said that once the design phase is complete sometime this summer, they will bid out the work before the fall.
Kelly said that the work will include replacing the pump station and getting bigger lines. He said that this work could help with plans for potential future development
“Our plan is, since it’s out in a rural area and not part of the city limits of Cookeville where we supply fire hydrants and fire flows,” Kelly said. “We will get the station rebuilt and connect it back into that two-inch line which will give them a constant pressure and some more water where we can establish a few more meters up there. And then as the city grows if the city ever wants to upgrade or decide to let a development go up there where you’d have to upsize the lines then we’ll cross that bridge when it gets there.”
Council will vote on authorizing City Manager James Mills to enter a contract with CTI Engineers on Thursday night. The engineering fee is estimated to be some $148,000.
