City projects coming back online

After going dormant for the winter, the project to replace the Sundance Kid water tank will be coming back online in the next couple of weeks and hopefully complete by the summer. Meanwhile, the council has authorized its first infrastructure project of the year: an overhaul of the chlorination facility near the Cole tank.

Karla Greaser of city engineers Trihydro told the Sundance City Council last week that she is currently working with the contractor on a revised schedule for the Sundance Kid tank. Work will hopefully restart in mid-April, she said, and the hope is to create a condensed schedule so that the project can be wrapped up before its original July deadline.

She also presented a work order for the new project, which will focus on the north booster building. This chlorination facility is in need of some attention, she said.

The project would see the facility cleaned up, old and unused pumps removed and the chlorination equipment itself replaced.

Public Works Director Mac Erickson expressed his support for the project, telling the council, "I think it would be nice to clean it up."

Greaser's estimate of Trihydro's fee for the project was $11,836. This would include the scope of design and also permitting through the Department of Environmental Quality.

The council passed a motion to approve moving ahead with renovating the chlorination facility.