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| Written by Brian McCauley | |||
| Wednesday, 06 May 2009 07:00 | |||
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It’s getting down to the final details for Paola and Louisburg officials, who have watched a multimillion-dollar water project take shape before their eyes during the past couple years. Members of the Marais des Cygnes Public Utility Authority Board, which is composed of officials from both cities, met Monday in Paola to go over details such as seeding of land and the color of tile and carpet in the plant being built next to the Marais des Cygnes River southeast of Paola. The water plant is expected to be complete in July. PUA board members voted Monday to approve a payment of $401,267.96 to Walters-Morgan Construction, which is the contractor for the water plant project. The work is about 88 percent complete, said John Brummer of Bartlett and West Engineers, the company that designed the project. The project also includes two new water towers to serve Paola and Louisburg. Paola’s water tower, which is already built near Cottonwood Elementary School, was a topic of discussion Monday. Board members were trying to decide whether to accept an offer from Midwest Connections to place an antennae on the tower to provide Internet services to rural customers. The company offered the PUA $500 a month plus a connection to provide Internet services to the water plant. The board members eventually approved the contract subject to changes making Midwest Connections secondary to all other applicants and implementing an annual 5 percent increase in the rate over the length of the three-year contract. Seeding at the water-treatment plant site near Victory Road and 343rd Street also was a topic of debate. Because of some delays in the work, the site was not ready for seeding at the ideal time earlier this spring. The seeding project is being handled by local worker Rick Courtney. Paola City Clerk Dan Droste said Courtney said he would seed the project now, but he could not guarantee that it would take because it is past the March 15 cutoff date for spring seeding. Larry Williams of Bartlett and West, who has been overseeing the project on site, strongly encouraged the board members to not wait until the fall to seed because of the possibility of losing a lot of black dirt, especially on the slopes. “It’s in everybody’s best interest to get as much seeded as possible this spring,” he said. The board members voted to let Courtney seed the site now, under the condition that Walters-Morgan Construction and Cutting Edge Excavating would assist in the fall if it needs to be reseeded.
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