It took about three months and nearly $30,000, but the Lyon Landing Road pumping station is operating again, Public Works Director Jonathan Ward told the Dublin Board of Commissioners on Monday night at its regularly scheduled monthly meeting at Town Hall.
“Lyon Landing is back up and everything has been cruising along pretty well,” Ward said.
The pumps quit priming shortly before Thanksgiving. A bypass pumping system was installed and equipment had to be rented while repairs were done.
“It wasn’t cheap to get it,” Mayor Horace Wyatt said. “We did things that we thought were necessary that was going to make it work. The station is running. The primers are running.”
When all the bills are added up, it’s estimated it will cost between $27,000 and $30,000, Wyatt said. Among the items listed were: $3,763 for gas to operate the bypass pump for three months, $8,000 to have new down pipes installed, $10,970 to rent a bypass pump, $2,273 for power pumps, and $2,065 for check values.
In other business,
** Wyatt also reported that paperwork has been completed and signed to replace the town’s water meters. The town will replace its existing water meters with automated water meters that will have drive-by technology. Funding is being provided by a revolving loan of about $150,000 from the N.C. Division of Water Infrastructure. Installation may begin within the next couple of months.
** The board approved renewing a $3,200 contract with Singletary’s Lawn Care and Landscaping for pruning and shaping the town’s crape myrtle trees, disposing of any trimmings, spraying for suckers as needed, and providing mulch beds for each tree. Pruning is expected to be performed later this month. Mulching will be done in the summer.
** The board agreed to contact Lumber River Council of Governments about equalizing the town’s water and sewer rates, and about zoning issues. Wyatt said he wasn’t asking to increase rates, but wanted to look into making the rates more equal in order to help with grant applications. Commissioner David Hursey said he didn’t see a need for two commercial zones in the town and that a section of land near Town Hall needed to be commercial instead of industrial.
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