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R <br />y <br />PUBLIC WORDS DEPARTMENT • 858 PEARL ST. • EUGENE, OREGON 97401 • <br />NEWS RELEASE <br />June 18, <br />(503) 687-5291 <br />DIVISION <br />.990 <br />CONTACT: Eric Jones, River Road/Santa Clara Public Information Specialist, <br />683-8823 <br />FOR IMMEDQATE RELEASE <br />WORK SET TO BEGIN ON RIVER ROAD SEWER PROJECT <br /> <br /> <br />''~~ <br />The onstruction phase of a seven-year project to provide sewer service <br />to more t an 8,000 River Road and Santa Clara homes gets under way this week. <br />On <br />the proj <br />ment tha <br />without <br />Gleason <br />miles of <br />summer. <br />Construc <br />the area <br />Expressw <br />east of <br />pipe per <br />main sew <br />structin <br />Onc <br />can begi <br />set by t <br />of Envir <br />Clara ar <br />75 perce <br />1995, an <br />J amc <br />other twc <br />bounded t <br />excavatic <br />Fairway [ <br />between ~ <br />begin in <br />ne 13, the Lane County Board of~Commissioners gave a green light to <br />t, voting 4-1 in favor of a Metropolitan Area General Plan Amend- <br />allows River Road and Santa Clara residents to hook up to sewers <br />Hexing to the City of Eugene. Friday afternoon, City Manager Mike <br />gned contracts with the two firms that will be constructing 10 <br />ewer to serve approximately 1,100 properties in River Road this <br />a tentative construction schedule submitted by Kenneth Bostick <br />on Co. of Eugene, the low bidder for sewer installation in Basin C, <br />orth of Maxwell generally between Grove Street and the Northwest <br />excavation work will begin Wednesday morning on Skipper Avenue <br />rth Park. Construction crews are expected lay about 300 feet of <br />ay, and crews will spend several weeks on each street, installing <br />lines, putting in individual service lines, repairing or recon- <br />streets, and testing the lines. <br />the public lines have been installed and tested, property owners <br />hooking up to the public sewer system. Under a connection schedule <br />federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Oregon Department <br />mental Quality, 15 percent of the homes in the River Road/Santa <br />are to be hooked up to the sewer system by the end of this year, <br />of the properties in River Road/Santa Clara must be hooked up by <br />all hookups must be completed by 2000 <br />W. Fowler Co., of Dallas, Ore., is building the sewers in the <br />1990 construction basins. In Basin A, a residential area generally <br />West Hilliard Lane, Sunnyside Drive, Willow Street and River Road, <br />is scheduled to begin late this week on Hilliard Lane just west of <br />ive. Construction in Basin B, another residential area generally <br />xwell Road and Park Avenue and west of Lake Drive, is expected to <br />uly. <br />(more) <br />