Water line project underway

The waterline project to service Sunbanks Lake Resort is underway.

The $300,000-plus project, first scheduled to begin in April, was started late last month and will provide Electric City water to the popular resort.

While the overall project is being paid for by the resort, the city is making an investment of between $18,000 and $20,000 to enlarge the line from 8-inch to 10-inch, so the city can service any future development south of the causeway.

That city expense is the difference in cost from 8-inch pipe to 10-inch pipe from State Street to the entrance to the resort.

There, the 10-inch line will be snubbed for later extension across the causeway and an 8-inch line will be placed on the south side of the internal resort road going in part way, then dropped to a 6-inch line. The 10-inch line covers the 1,920 feet from State Street to the entrance to the resort.

City officials had stated that the work should take between four and six weeks to complete.

The contractor doing the work is Glacier Peak Construction from Seattle. The backhoe has to build its own base as it moves along.

The work was earlier scheduled for April, then June, but delayed until the tourist season was over.

The pipeline covers about 4,000 feet, 1,920 along SR-155, and 2,100 inside the resort.