HUMBOLDT β A part of 16th Street will not be repaved this year so that the city has the option to widen a storm main without having to tear up newly paved street.
Work on the street between 11th Avenue and 12th Avenue will be deferred into the future.
βThat section of roadway does not have a water main replacement scheduled for it. It was simply going to be a road reconstruction,β Peter Bergquist, the cityβs public works director told council at their meeting June 28.
The city is looking at possible locations for storm ponds that can be used to prevent flooding during heavy rains. One possible location is north of 16th Street, but that would require the storm main to be upsized from 11th Avenue to the end of the street.
βWe don't want to redo that road and then have to dig it up potentially in the near future,β Bergquist said.
At the same meeting, council approved a $73,000 study that will model the extent of flooding during heavy rains and recommend solutions to prevent flooding.
To avoid having to pay a penalty to Brockman Enterprise for cancelling the work, the city will repave Ninth Avenue from 16th Street to 17th Street instead. The substitution will see a $62,000 reduction in expenditures. The total bid for the project was $2.14 million.
βIβm in favor of this actually because I know that Ninth Avenue in that section is really bad,β said Coun. Rob Muench. βI think this is a good idea.β
