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Sewer project marches on in Sisters
By Jim Cornelius

The digging goes on, but the end is in sight.

Crews are working along Barclay Drive in the Sisters Industrial Park, installing mains for the final phase of the sewer project.

As that work gets underway, the city is taking bids to catch up on water and sewer hook-ups to newly partitioned lots. Many lots are being broken up into smaller parcels as sewer service becomes available and the City of Sisters wants to make sure it has a handle on the work.

Property owners will pay for new hook-ups, but the city will control the work, to ensure that everything is built to city standards.

"The contractor is going to work for us," said city public works director Gary Frazee.

The successful bidder will have the opportunity to install additional new services for the following year. That could mean a lot of work, if partitions occur at the pace expected by city officials.

According to Frazee, each new installation poses its own challenges. Some are water and sewer hook-ups, some are sewer only and the length of laterals running from mains varies widely.

"Right now I have seven that need to be done and they're all different," Frazee said.

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