Water Improvement Project well underway

The water system improvement project is now well underway. The project consists of five separate contracts, which began in February of 2010: one, for the transmission main, one for the tower, two for distribution lines, and one for operating equipment.
The first contract is a 23-mile transmission main to Harrisonville, where we will tie into Tri-County Water Authority. The source of Tri-County’s water is groundwater wells near the Missouri River Alluvium and they maintain an award-winning Groundwater Protection Plan which controls activity around the wells. The transmission main goes down many gravel roads before coming up O Highway and then down A Highway into Drexel.
The second contract is the construction of a new 250,000 gallon water storage tower, which will be located not far from the Verizon tower, off of State Line Road.
The next two contracts are the ones where you have probably seen people working here....
Read the complete story in the May 6th edition.