Marion set to install new main line for city sewer

Marion set to install new main line for city sewer

Project expected to cost $ 239,000

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Marion has signed a contract to build a force main sewer line from Sartini Street pumping station to the city sewer pond, but may have some right-ofway issues in order to get it built.

Mayor Frank Fogleman told the city council that Jack Bond of Bond Engineering has started the preliminary work on the project to get the necessary permits.

“He needs a permit to go under Airport Road and Highway 118,” Fogleman said. “He needs a permit to burrow under the railroad tracks. Jack has done the paperwork and applied to those agencies.”

Fogleman said Bond has advised him, however, that there may be a problem fitting the line within the city’s existing right of way. “There is a bit of a concern that the right of way that we have there is some points along the way are too crowded,” Fogleman said.

That could mean that the city might have to use the state highway department’s right-of-way.

Doing that could pose a risk to the city in the future if the highway department ever needed to widen that roadway, Fogleman said.

The city would then have to bear the cost of moving the line.

“We will make every effort we can not to get in the highway department right of way,” Fogleman said.

“He (Bond) will come back to us with some information before we act.

The project is estimated to cost $239,000.

The city plans to use the remaining $190,000 left over from a loan from Arkansas Natural Resources

Commission to pay for part of the project. “There has been a meeting

with ANRC to go over the plans,” Fogleman said.

“They had an engineer go over them and they have tentatively blessed what we want to do. So they are okay with our plans.”

By Mark Randall