Seven residents from Phase 1 of the Westside Project have approached the City to be annexed and connect to City sewer. Several of the seven residents have failing septic systems. The City is proposing to try a small scaled version of the proposed plan for installation of City infrastructure for the whole westside. The idea being to install the infrastructure and bring forward a cost reimbursement proposal.
The project area consists of 23 residents along Cannon Street, Linden Street and Choteau Street, which include the seven county properties with some failing septic drain fields and no room for replacement drain fields. This leaves the homeowners with failed septic systems and only one option that is to extend the sanitary sewer main. The proposed project consists of 1943 LF of 8” SDR 35 sewer main and 23 sewer services.
The cost for this project is planned to be paid for by the City of Helena out of SRF Westside funding and set up on a reimbursement schedule that will recover the cost for the project as residents hook up to sewer and fully annex into the City of Helena. The reimbursement mechanism and the details for how it works will be presented at a later meeting in November 2015.
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