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Final testing underway and completing several punch list items for Baxter’s water and sewer expansion to the new Portobello plant.
Mayor John Martin said the pump station is operational, but work crews are working through some of the final details. Martin said the whole process was “an adventure.”
“Well, it’s just coordinating everything, the water lines and all,” Martin said. “We had to run a different waterline, move water lines, run sewer lines and everything. And everything came in the middle of old Diddy Road. So that’s one reason Old Diddy Road will be shut down as soon as the new road will be built going to Portobello.”
The expansion of water and sewer to that area not only crucial to Portobello’s success but to the development of other projects on that side of the Interstate.
“Rogers Group got the contract on it, and they’ve done a very good job on it,” Martin said. “So we feel like that everything’s going to be in place.”
Baxter Aldermen heard an update on Portobello’s testing at the Thursday meeting, going through the mechanical operations on the plant. Martin said work continues on office space at the plant as well.
“I say it probably be in the fall before we have that grand opening, that’s my thoughts,” Martin said.
CDBG grant money helped fund the water and sewer expansion.
