The Pella City Council set public hearings for a pair of large scale infrastructure projects at their meeting this week.
The council will review bids for improvements to Hazel Street at the Tuesday, October 6th meeting, and the purchase of electric equipment for substation improvements on Tuesday, October 20th. City Administrator Mike Nardini says the Hazel Street reconstruction from Maple to Elm Street is the latest project in their long-term road improvement plans. Completion is expected in May of 2016.
He says the more than $890,000 purchase of circuit breakers, switches, and transformers will be used at the substation next to the city’s diesel power plant.
“What is being proposed at the west substation is to convert it from a signal bus bar schematic design to a ring bus design,” Nardini says. “Currently, we have six connections on that substation that are connected to a single electrical bus bar.”
“The issue at hand is if there was a fault on that bus bar, that substation would have to be taken out of service and all of the connections at that substation as well.”
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