Finance Committee - 7/5/2018 Page 2
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you Mr. Mayor, my question would be is this still like a single combination system or are we ever going
to get into splitting it where storm water won't be mixed with the sewer water anymore?
Mr. Dookran
So in this particular location in Crown Hill it is a combined sewer and we don’t have a program currently to
continue any extensive sewer separation. It is not really the City’s intention; we don’t have that in our program
budget. Our sewer separation program that started in the 90’s and went a couple years into the 2000's
became unaffordable and we went back to the EPA and renegotiated the CSO program and got ahold and this
system we have completed but we have completed.
We have heard from the EPA that they are still not satisfied because we still have CSO discharges when we
have very intense rains. We continue to work with them to figure out if there are other affordable options rather
than do separation. Separation is a very costly venture.
Alderman Caron
Thank you. | was going to ask the same question. Does this include the paving afterwards?
Mr. Dookran
This street came about because it was on the paving this and when we have the inner city streets with the old
sewers, we look at the sewer and we discovered that this sewer was in bad shape. So what this will do, it will
pay for any paving that the paving program would not have had to do. In this case, the paving program will
come back and put a finishing layer.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you Mr. Mayor. Could you talk about, you said you broke it up into pieces; I’m just interested in what the
other pieces and are there other 1900 year old sewers that we are going to be replacing?
Mr. Dookran
Yes typically the sewers that we find ourselves replacing are of that vintage. We have another contract where
we awarded maybe a month ago | believe it was for Kinsley Street. That work will be starting soon. So yes,
that was the first one, this is the second one and we may get in another small one to fit within the current
budget. We do have the fiscal year 19 appropriations now so we will go into that budget to start developing
sewer replacement programs.
In addition to just the replacement there are pipes that can be relined so you are not digging up the street to
that extent and you can do a lining project. So some of those in the Kinsley Street project that was awarded,
that is part lining and part excavation for replacement.
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