As one major waterline replacement ends, another is set to begin.
For a year, KVOE News has been updating residents about the construction involved with the 24th and Prairie waterline process — with planning updates for over a year ahead of that. City Engineer Jim Ubert says the work is “in the home stretch” with close to 95 percent of the project now done, but there is still a somewhat thorny area to finish out — the 12th and Prairie intersection.
The project has been bringing new and larger pipe from the Water Treatment Plant near 24th and Industrial east to Prairie and south to 12th, thus enhancing reliability — and setting the stage for the Southeast Transmission project, designed to do the same thing from 12th and Garfield to the water tower near South and Carter.
Construction should officially start the week of June 10 and last through fall 2026, bringing over 24,000 linear feet of new waterline along with over 220 new service lines and other related connections.
