A flood management mission to guard the Dakota Square and southwest Minot space is again on the desk. The Minot City Council voted Monday to maintain the mission alive with new design planning.
The metropolis started engaged on a proposed storm sewer evaluation district to switch the culvert infrastructure round Dakota Square in 2015. Due to the scale and cost of the mission, town sought federal grants however was unsuccessful.
With the lapsed time, new engineering and permits are required, in line with the Public Works Department. The council authorised spending as much as $1.15 million in hiring Ackerman-Estvold. Most of the engineering money will come from present mission funds put aside by town. Other funds will come from the storm sewer improvement fund and money reserves within the water/sewer account.
The mission would cut back flooding inside the mission space, together with alongside sixteenth Street Southwest. During development, visitors disruptions are anticipated on sixteenth Street, twenty fourth Avenue and tenth Street.
Council member Stephan Podrygula inquired about whether or not The Tracks, a mixed-use improvement underneath development in southwest Minot, will affect drainage in Puppy Dog Coulee. City Engineer Lance Meyer stated new developments should match their post-development run-off with their pre-development run-off to discharge no extra water.
In different business, the council:
– prolonged the resilience grant timeline for Project BEE’s homeless shelter and a 17-unit low- to moderate-income housing mission from September of this yr to Sept. 30, 2025, to accommodate development delays.
– moved ahead with Rock Solid Technology to create a citizen engagement portal as a part of the citywide software program system. The citizen engagement app would supply earlier evening notifications of rubbish and recycling pickups and notifications of interruptions or modifications in service. The cellular app may have info on landfill hours, charges, guidelines, assortment schedules and gadgets eligible for recycling.
– authorised spending as much as $95,866 with Houston Engineering for design and development engineering on a uncooked water line substitute mission in northwest Minot. The line was put in within the Nineteen Fifties and its situation has deteriorated. Total mission cost is estimated at $457,066.
The mission will change about 400 toes of pipe as a continuation of a 2021 mission. The line runs from Wells 5 and 6 within the space of Third Street and Fifth Avenue Northwest to the Minot Water Treatment Plant. In 2021, about 2,000 toes that runs alongside the previous Ramstad college web site was changed, and final yr one other portion was relocated for the flood safety mission. Including the proposed mission, about 2,500 toes stay to get replaced in coming years.
