Flushed with success
Work starts on SJB sewer project
”
Hallelujah!
”
With a single, heartfelt word, San Juan Bautista City Council
veteran Priscilla Hill summed it up for more than a dozen others
present Tuesday as the city officially broke ground on the largest
municipal project in the town’s history.
Flushed with success
Work starts on SJB sewer project
“Hallelujah!”
With a single, heartfelt word, San Juan Bautista City Council veteran Priscilla Hill summed it up for more than a dozen others present Tuesday as the city officially broke ground on the largest municipal project in the town’s history.
As equipment operator Todd Wilson cut through the asphalt on Fourth Street, adjacent to Abbe Park, members of the group hoisted the traditional gold shovels to make it official: the project is under way.
The project is expected to be completed by the end of summer of next year, according to Mark Davis, project manager.
The project is projected to cost $9.4 million, and involves water treatment, new pipelines, storm sewer improvements, the reconstruction of Fourth Street, including sidewalks and gutters, a reservoir, new wastewater pipelines and a water softening facility, Davis said.
By treating water to reduce its mineral content before it reaches consumers, demand for water softeners in the town is expected to go down, Davis said. That means that the treated effluent leaving the city will be lower in salt, improving supplies to the neighboring San Juan Valley.
Tuesday’s groundbreaking comes after nine years of struggles to fund the project, making Hill the only city official whose tenure stretches the length of the project’s history.
