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Victoria’s downtown area could look more like a construction zone than a business district early next year.
The city council will consider today issuing $6.5 million in bonds to pay for replacing World War II-era water and sewer lines.
“For years, with some pride, taxes were not raised to take care of work that was necessary,” Mayor Will Armstrong said. “But if we don’t address the problem that’s underground, out of sight and most of time out of mind, we could have some catastrophic failures.”
That would leave downtown businesses and homes without water and sewer service.
Today’s meeting will begin at 5 p.m. in the council chamber at 107 W. Juan Linn. St.
This bond issue would be part of a $40 million package that will include water and sewer line replacement in other sections of the downtown area.
This bond issue would cover replacing utility lines under Main and Glass streets between Commercial and Juan Linn streets. It would also include William Street between Commercial and Juan Linn and Juan Linn between Liberty Street and Cameron Street.
Base water and sewer rates were raised a total of $1.70 a month over the past year to pay off these bonds.
Lynn Short, the city’s Public Works director, said the work could get under way shortly after 2009 begins.
The lines date back to the 1930s and 1940s, Short said.
“A lot of the sewer lines are concrete, and over the years sewer gas has eaten them away,” he said. “The water lines are cast iron and they have corroded.”