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Progress on Ellisville utility site pumped up
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| (From left) Pete Spradley, Keith Lowry and Gary Dicks of Hughes Well Drilling and Pump Service install a length of pipe that will connect the pump on the first of two 12-inch public supply water wells with the electric motor that drives it. MIKE MITSEFF/Lake City Reporter |
Project eventually will provide water, sewer to homes and businesses.
By MICHAEL MITSEFF
mmitseff@lakecityreporter.com
The design process for a $2.6 million Ellisville Utility water project was initiated in 2006, after the Department of Environmental Protection asked the county to look into the possibility of providing utilities to the area.
On Tuesday, the first of two 12-inch, public-supply wells were outfitted with a 15 horse power, line-shaft turbine water pump by Hughes Well Drilling and Pump Service.
The project service area encompasses an area south and east of the Ellisville Interchange at Interstate 75. The area is bounded on the west by U.S. Highway 441, south to Southeast Bailey Street and east to Southeast Giles Martin Avenue.
The project will deliver water — and eventually — sewer service to residents and businesses located on the northeast side of the interstate and to its less-occupied southwest side.
“The next step, whenever we get power to the site, is to run the pump and chlorinate it and then connect the two wells to the 200,000-gallon water-storage tank,” Hughes Well Drilling owner Ron Hughes said.
The water from the storage tank will later hookup to a 10,000 gallon pressure tank connected to two high pressure pumps that will provide 60 to 70 pounds of water pressure to customers, he said.
The initial design of the water project had included an elevated water storage tank, but because of the cost of steel it was eliminated and replaced by a ground-level water-storage tank.
To help speed the project and to decide where the distribution lines for water and sewage will be routed in successive phases, the Columbia County Board of County Commissioners appointed a subcommittee of itself that includes Dist. 3 Commissioner Jody DuPree and Dist. 2 Commissioner Dewey Weaver.
“The two commissioners will meet with the county’s engineer on Dec. 30 to formulate a recommendation for the full board concerning the appropriate location for the distribution lines to begin the project,” County Manager Dale Williams said.
The meeting is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Dec. 30 on the second floor County Annex conference room.
The subcommittee will discuss the original — and alternate — routes for the distribution lines that were recommended by Engineer Marc Neihaus of Eutaw Utilities, who will also be present at the meeting.
“Initially there were some time frames because we had some economic development projects in the wings,” Williams said. “There was a truck stop/truck dealership, there was a potential rural area of critical economic concern project site and a distribution center, which would have affected the southside of I-75 at the Ellisville interchange.”
The proposed commercial interests that were preparing to locate on the southside of the project also played a part in the originally proposed location of the distribution lines but because of economic realities, those projects are no longer planned, Williams said.
The second issue that the subcommittee will study is when and how best to serve the residential communities located on the northside of I-75.
When water is available to the heavily-populated northside of the project, hookups will be mandatory.
The commission has yet to decide what process will be put in place to expedite households tying into the water system, Williams said.
On Tuesday, the first of two 12-inch, public-supply wells were outfitted with a 15 horse power, line-shaft turbine water pump by Hughes Well Drilling and Pump Service.
The project service area encompasses an area south and east of the Ellisville Interchange at Interstate 75. The area is bounded on the west by U.S. Highway 441, south to Southeast Bailey Street and east to Southeast Giles Martin Avenue.
The project will deliver water — and eventually — sewer service to residents and businesses located on the northeast side of the interstate and to its less-occupied southwest side.
“The next step, whenever we get power to the site, is to run the pump and chlorinate it and then connect the two wells to the 200,000-gallon water-storage tank,” Hughes Well Drilling owner Ron Hughes said.
The water from the storage tank will later hookup to a 10,000 gallon pressure tank connected to two high pressure pumps that will provide 60 to 70 pounds of water pressure to customers, he said.
The initial design of the water project had included an elevated water storage tank, but because of the cost of steel it was eliminated and replaced by a ground-level water-storage tank.
To help speed the project and to decide where the distribution lines for water and sewage will be routed in successive phases, the Columbia County Board of County Commissioners appointed a subcommittee of itself that includes Dist. 3 Commissioner Jody DuPree and Dist. 2 Commissioner Dewey Weaver.
“The two commissioners will meet with the county’s engineer on Dec. 30 to formulate a recommendation for the full board concerning the appropriate location for the distribution lines to begin the project,” County Manager Dale Williams said.
The meeting is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Dec. 30 on the second floor County Annex conference room.
The subcommittee will discuss the original — and alternate — routes for the distribution lines that were recommended by Engineer Marc Neihaus of Eutaw Utilities, who will also be present at the meeting.
“Initially there were some time frames because we had some economic development projects in the wings,” Williams said. “There was a truck stop/truck dealership, there was a potential rural area of critical economic concern project site and a distribution center, which would have affected the southside of I-75 at the Ellisville interchange.”
The proposed commercial interests that were preparing to locate on the southside of the project also played a part in the originally proposed location of the distribution lines but because of economic realities, those projects are no longer planned, Williams said.
The second issue that the subcommittee will study is when and how best to serve the residential communities located on the northside of I-75.
When water is available to the heavily-populated northside of the project, hookups will be mandatory.
The commission has yet to decide what process will be put in place to expedite households tying into the water system, Williams said.
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