A Danville City Council committee is endorsing a proposal to spend just over $1.7 million dollars to study about twenty-percent of the city’s sanitary sewer lines. City Engineer Sam Cole says it would be the first phase of a program designed to alleviate overflows and back-ups in basements…
{AUDIO: ‘’We will be cleaning and televising those lines to basically just maintain them, and inspect for the condition of the lines. We’ll also be smoke testing to look for illegal connections like downspouts, cracked lines, storm sewers – things that would let ground water and storm water into the system. That’s probably the biggest cause of our sewer back-ups during rain events. It’s from water that’s not suppose to be in there.’’}
Cole adds phase one will target some areas where sanitary sewer problems sometimes occur….
{AUDIO: ‘’The areas will be South Danville, the Heights, the area around and north of the current Carle at the Riverfront development, Eastgate Drive. There’s an area north of Winter Avenue and kind of east of Jackson. There’s a lot of basement back-ups in that area. And there’s also a large area over by Northeast School.’’}
Cole told the Public Works Committee of the Danville City Council that over the next ten years it is hoped sanitary sewer lines over the entire city can be studied. He also says using a lining process where repairs are needed on sewer lines is only about 20-percent of the cost of digging it up to replace it.
