For the week of September 16 thru September 22, 1998  

Mayor offers Eccles $66,000 for sewer easement


By AMY SPINDLER
Express Staff Writer

The Hailey City Council on Monday took two steps toward breaking ground for its new wastewater treatment plant slated for the current Woodside plant site.

Following an executive session, the council authorized Mayor Brad Siemer to offer Spencer Eccles, owner of the Flying Hat Ranch south of Hailey, $66,200 for an easement in order to discharge the effluent from the treatment plant into the Big Wood River there.

According to Hailey city administrator Daryle James, if negotiations are successful, a discharge pipe will run from the Woodside plant along a public utility easement to the Woodside Subdivision, and then South on Highway 75 to the property line between the Eccles and Divine properties. It will then run west along the property line to the Eccles’ south property line, and into the river.

The effluent will be discharged one mile north of the Bellevue city limits, and a little over one mile south of the Hailey border.

The council also directed the mayor to award a $5,097,613 contract to Turnkey Inc. of Ontario, Oregon for the construction of the plant, contingent upon Department of Environmental Quality approval.

"The bid is by no means out of the ball park, but it is a little over," said water and wastewater superintendent Ray Hyde.

Hyde said that while he would investigate options to decrease the cost, no alterations to the contract would jeopardize the safety or integrity of the plant.

 

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