Plans advance for water tower
The city of Janesville will keep working toward building a new water tower, but plans are not concrete yet.
The city council Monday night voted to move forward with plans to build a 1.5-million-gallon water tower on the city’s northeast side and a large-diameter water main to connect existing mains on the city’s east and west sides.
The project would cost about $7.15 million.
The vote didn’t commit money, but it will keep the city on a timeline to compete for federal stimulus money for the project, said Dan Lynch, utilities director.
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Apr 28, 2009 at 1:05 p.m.
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Iam sure this is badly needed and makes sense to me, better that tunnell, children museum, There are a lot of towers around and Iam sure they are all safe,
Apr 28, 2009 at 1:04 p.m.
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Beloit has above ground water towers. Haven't heard of problems with those. Per the full Gazette article, low water pressure can be a cause of bacterial problems.
Apr 28, 2009 at 12:16 p.m.
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partarican1: are you sure the only reason that our system is not prone to bacterial contamination is because it is underground? We do add chlorine.
Water towers certainly need to be inspected on a regular basis. If any of the screens on the vents are damaged you can get insects or birds living in the towers. We certainly dont want dead birds floating in our water towers. However, underground tanks could end up with dead rats floating in them. Isn' that just as bad? Again...chlorine is there for a reason.
Can you give us more information about the problem that Milwaukee had?
Apr 28, 2009 at 9:12 a.m.
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Didn't they hear about Milwaukee in 1993???
Above ground water tanks are prone to bacterial problems such as cryptosporidium. Our current system is not prone to bacterial contamination because it is underground.They want to build this to justify new growth in the east-northeast section of town. PRIME FARMLAND! Stop the madness and rebuild areas already in place. FIX the infrastructure and STOP the SPRAWL! How can they spend money on a new system when they can't maintain the current system? This idea not eco- or fiscally-friendly.
Who was the city's hydrologist for this project? Does anyone know?
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