The City of Two Rivers continues to make improvements to its underground infrastructure.
The city council unanimously approved two issuances for the sale of bonds for sewer system repairs and lead service lateral replacement.
A lot of the $1.78 million for sewer system bonds goes toward the city’s cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) lining program, which restores aging sanitary sewer mains from the inside without extensive excavation.
City Manager Kyle Kordell says he hopes more can be done in the future.
“Of course everything takes time and money,” he admitted. “In the future, we could definitely spend more on basic core infrastructure like this. We could do more every year, but balance in all things, right?”
Work takes place on about 12,000 feet of sanitary main and affects about 200 homes. $1.9 million will go toward an aggressive LSL replacement project.
Kordell says 250 lead water lines will be done this year before doubling to 500 in 2027.
“We’ll be about 85% done and ahead of schedule,” he explained. “We’ll only have about 600 remaining after that, and we’ll have 10 years to do it after that. So, we’ll be in a good position. We’ll have a lot of flexibility in the next tenure.”
Starting in 2027, cities will have 10 years to replace their lead service lines as required by the U.S. EPA.
Kordell says the Cool City will be ahead of schedule with good principal forgiveness in the bonds.
The city council voted unanimously for both issuance and sale of the bonds.
The projects were approved previously, but the council still had to approve how they would be funded, and now they have.
