NEWS
Nelson Street drainage project delayed once again
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Just when everyone thought there was light at the end of the tunnel on the Nelson Street drainage project, City Manager Bert Cunningham said new problems arose last week and the contractor also asked for the rain days reportedly owed per the contract.
In the works for almost a year and closing a major thoroughfare at the same time, the city council was updated at its Monday night meeting. The city manager said it was found the culverts that run from Houston Street to the drop box at Mill and Nelson and from the drop box to the bridge culverts have come loose and must be repaired before any more work can be done at the intersection.
Also, the drop box does not have the correct elevation so water will not enter the drop box under normal rainfall circumstances. Cunningham said problems with the drop box continue to be a sore point after previous questions on incorrect soil compaction that also caused delays.
“The project will not be finished until the contractor gets everything fixed at the box and concrete is poured at the intersection. There are other items that need to be addressed, but the drop box is our main concern,” said the manager.
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Pictured above: Concrete pour on Nelson Street back in July. Courtesy photo
The long-awaited drainage project at the intersection of Rock and Pillar is now underway as an excavator has begun work on the new channel as the culverts are replaced and the channel straightened. (Photos by Rosie Cole)
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Bowie City Councilors conducted a brief agenda of business Tuesday night.
City Manager Bert Cunningham reported the city received a $6,800 grant to support a clean-up week Nov. 17-21.
He attended the grant scoring meeting in Wichita Falls on Monday where it was announced the total of grant requests came in at $84,500. With $85,000 available all the cities were funded.
During the clean-up week dumpsters will be set up at the Second Monday parking area and citizens can provide their utility bill as an identifier to dump free.
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Just a few weeks before the major mid-term elections Texas election officials had an unknown number of voter registration applications dumped on them that have not been processed due to an error by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Montague County was not immune as the local elections administrator Ginger Wall reports they received approximately 517 records to process as a result of a “technological error” at the state level that caused this major backlog.
The DPS system failed to send the applications, submitted by voters through its online driver’s license portal, to county voter registrars. The backlog is at least 200,000 voter registration applications and updates.
Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
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