AH council to discuss how to pay for added costs incurred by discovery of lead-based primer
Airway Heights City Council voted unanimously at its June 6 meeting to defer a decision on awarding a contract for repainting the exterior of the city’s 43-year-old water reservoir tower at Sunset Park.
The deferment vote took place after Public Works Director Kevin Anderson told the council the engineer’s estimate for the project of $149,500 had more than doubled to $325,672 due to the discovery of a lead-based primer on the exterior of the tower. Because of the hazardous material, the project became more than just simple repainting.
“There’s no option but to sand blast it down to bare metal,...
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