Greenwood Rd. culvert project revised

The city council this week approved changes to drainage plans for the Greenwood Rd. box culvert.

Don Dye of M.C. Shaff explained to the council that his company had planned to outlet the storm sewer into Lodgepole Creek just to the east of the box culvert. After further consideration, the company decided to tie the pipe into the box culvert instead. This will allow the company to avoid using energy dissipators in order to prevent erosion.

“This will handle that and save money in the long run,” Dye said. “We decided the best time to do this work would be now while the box was being built instead of having to come back in at a later time.”

The additional work created by this change caused a total increase to the project of around $25,000. Dye explained that this work was planned for an upcoming project anyway, so it did not amount an added cost to the city in the long run. It will save Sidney the cost of implementing other measures for erosion control later on.

Long term maintenance would also be more costly with energy dissipators.

“Really all the work that’s gonna be done now, would have been bid into the next project anyhow,” Dye said.