Sarasota News Leader
September 13, 2013
Page 79
RESIDENTS INVITED TO LIFT STATION 87 MEETINGS
The City of Sarasota will hold two meetings
this month to provide updates to the public on
the Lift Station 87 (LS 87) Project: a project
team session that will be open to the public
and a community meeting, the city has announced.
The LS 87 Project team session has been set
for Wednesday, Sept. 18, from 6 to 8 p.m. in
the SRQ Media Room in the City Hall Annex,
1565 First St., Sarasota.
The community meeting has been scheduled
for Thursday, Sept. 19, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the
City Commission Chambers at City Hall, 1565
First St.
The meetings will be conducted by city staff
and the city's new engineer of record for the
project, McKim & Creed, the release adds
"Once completed, the LS 87 Project will improve wastewater service and reliability for
the City of Sarasota customers and protect
the environment," the release says. The new
lift station will replace existing Lift Station 7,
located at 935 Pomelo Ave. Wastewater flow
will be redirected from LS 7 to LS 87, located
in Luke Wood Park, via a new gravity sewer
pipeline that will need to be constructed under Hudson Bayou, the release points out.
A project website will be developed to keep
residents informed about the project's schedule. For more information about the LS 87
Project, visit www.sarasotagov.com/OALP_
Both meetings will include a discussion of the Utility_Project/. Interested parties also may
first phase of project work as well as the work subscribe to email updates at www.egovlink.
com/sarasota/subscriptions/subscribe.asp.
schedule, the release notes.
"We are committed to an open and transparent process as we move forward with this
project," said Sarasota Utility Director Mitt
Tidwell in a news release.
Before the city halted the project late last year, the sign for the Lift Station 87 project was highly visible near downtown Sarasota. Photo by Norman Schimmel
