City approves $95 million in bonds for underground utility work
Sep 26, 2006 07:23 PM CDT
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CORPUS CHRISTI - The city council approved bonds to be used toward costs for underground utility work around the city at its Tuesday meeting. They approved a total of $95 million, which includes $10 million for refinancing some bonds that were previously issued, at a new, lower interest rate.
The underground utility projects are scheduled to coincide with street projects, such as one currently in progress on Cimarron and Yorktown, near Mireles Elementary, where the city's looking to make some storm water drainage improvements.
The bonds will be used on current projects as well as some that will be started in the next few months. City officials said they're saving money by working on the underground utilities while the construction on the streets are in progress.
"Once the street is paved, we don't have to be digging up an old water line that broke. We would have already replaced that and be good to go for another twenty years, and we won't have to be digging up streets," City Engineer Angel Escobar said.
The underground utility includes replacing, upgrading and relocating water, waste water and storm water lines. At Cimarron and Yorktown, they're laying down new water pipes - just one the 14 underground utilities projects the $95 million will cover.
Another drainage improvements project is in progress is at Kinney and Water Street, and another big project that will begin shortly consists of drainage improvements on the westside in the Mansheim area near Sunnybrook.
Most of the projects were scheduled to be completed within the year and the next fiscal year, which is about 12 months.
Online Reporter: Jenny Suniga
Corpus Christi Sky Line
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
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