Construction keeps Cheney Light Department busy

The Cheney Light Department has around $197,500 in capital projects it hopes to accomplish in 2017 — if they can find the time.

Department Director Steve Boorman told the City Council at a Nov. 22 budget presentation that construction, along with some significant repair and improvement work, had kept his crews busy in 2016. Cheney linemen installed 325 new meters through the first nine months of the year, including at five new buildings in the Eagle Point apartment complex on Washington and Betz roads, Harvest Bluff subdivision phases two and three and several other multifamily units.

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