{"id":11207,"date":"2020-01-03T18:48:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T18:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11207"},"modified":"2020-01-03T18:48:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T18:48:55","slug":"city-council-approves-drainage-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11207","title":{"rendered":"City Council Approves Drainage Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Los Fresnos residents living north of Whipple Road will soon get the benefit of a project that calls for fixing drainage problems that cause flooding whenever several inches of rain fall over there and other parts of the city.<\/p>\n

The city council approved funding $60,367.50 for the project that includes installing a 54-inch pipe based on a 100-year storm data.<\/p>\n

The funding was approved after Hanson Professional Services Inc. recommended two proposals for fixing the drainage.<\/p>\n

One proposal called for installing a 48-inch pipe based on a 50-year storm data at a cost of $52,934.<\/p>\n

The other one, which the council approved, called for a bigger pipe, a longer life span and for an additional $7,433.50.<\/p>\n

City Manager Mark Milum, recommended the second proposal, saying the best thing to do is to go with the larger size and 100 year flood data.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the funds in the fund balance (rainy day fund) that will easily cover the cost,\u201d he said, \u201cand still leave us with more than adequate funds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Council members voted unanimously on the second proposal and work on the drainage improvement project will begin early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Tony Vindell\/LFN Los Fresnos residents living north of Whipple Road will soon get the benefit of a project that calls for fixing drainage problems that cause flooding whenever several inches of rain fall over there and other parts of the city. The city council approved funding $60,367.50 for the project that includes installing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11208,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207\/revisions\/11208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}