Parish project to help Baker with its sewage
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BAKER — The Board of Aldermen learned Tuesday night that a city-parish sewer project will bring $4.2 million in rehabilitation work to help eliminate sewer overflows.
The project within the city limits includes adding generators at pump stations, upgrading the stations and building new sewer lines or rehabilitating them, said engineers Douglas Jenkins and Michael R. Ellis of CH2M Hill.
Jenkins told the board that design work has already started and the projected finish is in May 2013.
Mayor Harold Rideau said sewer user fees — about $90,000 annually — are paying for the project.
In another matter, city officials voted 3-2 to hire Professional Engineering Consultants Corp. to advertise bids for a $4.7 million water system and metering project.
Aldermen A.J. Walls and Charles Vincent voted against the motion. Jimmy Pourciau, Fred Russell and Carlon Simpson voted in favor.
Vincent provided the board with a list of 12 state municipalities that did not use water meters. Vincent said meters were not reliable. He said the town of Iowa was in a court battle over the use of water meters because they were broken and had not been read in three years.
Rideau said without the meters, the city is not eligible for water system grants.
Turning to other local events, Fire Chief Danny Edwards announced the ribbon-cutting for the city’s new fire station will be held at 10 a.m. Nov. 16.
Edwards said engineers and contractors are making final inspections at the new Groom Road station.
Edwards also said that life-size statutes of firefighters will be placed in front of the landscaped building.
The statutes, said Edwards, were paid for by donations from volunteer firefighters.
Officials also announced that the city will honor its veterans Nov. 8 at the Veteran Plaza, beginning at 2 p.m.
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