Water board to meet on pipeline additions

CLOVIS — The board of the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority will convene Monday morning in a special meeting to approve final additions to an interim pipeline construction project that members signed off on last week.

ENMWUA on Thursday signed the construction agreement and gave official “notice to proceed” to Oscar Renda Contracting, Inc,. for the project dubbed “Finished Water Two” (FW2), according to a news release.

At a cost of almost $28 million, FW2 will “consist of a 33-inch transmission pipeline” running 7 1/2 miles from northwest of Cannon Air Force Base toward EPCOR’s water storage system at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Brady Avenue, supplying the city and the base with “interim groundwater sources.” The contractor has just shy of a year now to complete the project.

Board chair and Clovis Mayor David Lansford said FW2 “represents the initial phase of the Interim Ground Water Project,” which is “the next and most essential phase of the Ute Water Project in both the short and intermediate term.”

The board meets at 9 a.m. Monday in the Sitterly Professional Center, 801 Pile Street.