Utility will ask City to cover estimated $500K cost after job is completed
The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) Board of Directors approved a $500,000 repair to an essential wastewater pipe that was accidentally punctured on May 28 by City of Alameda workers who were repairing a storm drain, according to a Bay City News report published in Local News Matters and SFGATE.
After the repairs are completed, EBMUD will ask the City of Alameda to pay for the costs associated with repairing the damaged pipe, EBMUD officials said. The pipe, known as the Alameda sewer interceptor pipeline, sits just above the storm drain and serves as a sewer line for both Alameda Island and Bay Farm Island.
“We are moving fast on this,” Garin Warren, EBMUD’s manager of wastewater engineering, told Bay City News. “We went out to the site, assessed the condition the day after we were notified, and by the following day, we had a draft repair.”…