Sink Creek Interceptor Hearing Rescheduled for June 21

SMGA will continue to keep you up-to-date on this project. Please take the time to contact the Mayor and City Council at [email protected] with your concerns before this issue comes up on the council agenda on June 21. A recent presentation to the community on the proposed wastewater line is available at http://www.sanmarcostx.gov/departments/CIP/docs/SinkCreekPh2_18april11.pdf
And read our previous post at http://smgreenbelt.blogspot.com/2011/05/wastewater-line-through-spring-lake.html

City of San Marcos
630 E. Hopkins
San Marcos, Texas 78666

May 16, 2011

For Immediate Release

Sink Creek Interceptor Hearing Rescheduled for June 21

A public hearing on the Sink Creek Phase 2 wastewater interceptor project has been rescheduled from May 17 to the June 21, 2011 City Council meeting.

The new date will allow the City of San Marcos to comply with Texas  Parks and Wildlife Code Section 26.002 regarding the publication of notice of the hearing.

The Sink Creek project will install a new 21- inch sanitary sewer main  from the intersection of N. LBJ Drive and Oakridge along and across Sink Creek to Lime Kiln Road. The new interceptor will relieve wastewater capacity issues and overflows downstream of the N LBJ lift station. Two aging lift stations in the area will also be replaced.

City engineers and the design consultants, Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam,  Inc., held a public meeting on the project April 18 at the Activity Center. Information presented at that meeting is available on the City’s Capital Improvements webpage  at http://www.sanmarcostx.gov/departments/CIP/SinkCreekPhaseIIDocList.html

The Sink Creek wastewater interceptor was identified as a recommended improvement project in the City’s 1995 and 2005 Wastewater Master Plans. Project cost is estimated at $3.5 million.
Construction is slated to begin in the fall of 2011, with completion in the fall of 2012.

For more information on this project, please call the City of San Marcos Capital Improvements Department at 512.393.8130.