On April 19, 2022, City Council awarded a contract to Northern Lines Contracting to construct the West End Lower Bluff Utility Extension Project. The sanitary sewer improvements constructed with the project include a sewer lift station and forcemain that will provide gravity sanitary sewer service to properties in the lower bluff, as shown on the attached Map of Service Area. City staff are proposing to fund the sanitary sewer improvements through the addition of a lateral sanitary sewer connection charge to the benefiting properties. The charge will be collected at the earlier time of connecting to the sanitary sewer or the recording of a final plat for a development utilizing the sanitary sewer.

At this time, all sanitary sewer work has been completed and the associated costs have been finalized. The lateral sanitary sewer connection charges for the sewer extension are based on actual project costs and developable acreage that the sewer extension will service. 

Initial sanitary sewer project costs will be funded by the sanitary sewer fund. As properties connect, the sanitary sewer fund will get reimbursed proportionally for the project cost from those properties that connect in the future.