Monterey To Consider Engineering Contract for Storm Drain

Monterey’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen will consider an engineering contract for storm drainage repair within the city.

Mayor Bill Wiggins says the improvements are much needed to help alleviate some of the area’s recent flooding issues.

“This is a nagging problem that’s existed in Monterey for many many years,” Wiggins says. “It really runs from Old Walton Road over to Interstate 40. Many administrations have scratched their head and wrestled with this problem, and ran away because of a lack of funds.”

Monterey will consider an engineering contract for storm drainage issues within the city.

Wiggins says Lebanon-based Warren and Associates have submitted a proposal which the city will consider entering during Monday’s meeting.

“It’s just a straight-up-and-down contractual relationship the Board [of Mayor and Aldermen] will make a decision on,” Wiggins says. “We’ll anxiously await the costs and projects that will be necessary to remedy this. I’m sure it’ll be taken in segments mostly because of the cost element.”

Wiggins says despite potentially high costs, the city needs to address the problem now before flooding becomes worse.

“The current concrete system is failing and it’s obviously failing more because the flooding in the park, which is the provisional evidence of what’s going on, the water just stays and stays there anymore,” Wiggins says. “Apparently we’re just down to a trickle.”

The Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting will take place Monday beginning at 7 p.m.