The Fort Wayne City Council approved a more than $8.5 million project to extend the water and sewer services to the southeast side where the Google data center will be
FW City Council approves pump station contracts
DAVE GONG | The Journal Gazette
A pair of contracts worth more than $5 million approved Tuesday by the Fort Wayne City Council are only part of a major pump station project expected to cost between $45 million and $50 million, a City Utilities official said.
In an 8-0 vote, council members approved a pair of engineering services contracts with Wessler Engineering Inc. and Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. to manage construction of a deep dewatering pump station associated with the deep rock tunnel, also known as the Three Rivers Protection & Overflow Reduction Tunnel.
The station will pump water out of the tunnel and move it to City Utilities water pollution control plant for treatment once a wet weather event subsides, Mike Kiester, City Utilities engineering manager, told the council.