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The Project includes over 10 miles of pipeline in four cities
including more than 10 miles of large diameter pipeline in four communities and the installation of a new water treatment plant , the largest facility , valued at $ 67 million .
The $ 254 million project will provide improved drinking water for 100,000 residents in two communities for the foreseeable future at the lowest cost , and create over 2200 jobs .
A Six-Year Evolution According to Komarek , two of the most notable points of project evolution were the design of the water treatment plant and the
routing of a portion of the large diameter finished water pipeline under the community ’ s namesake , Oswego Lake .
“ Our objective was to get the pipeline from the south to the north side of the lake and originally our plan was to drill across and underneath the lake and pull a pipe through that ,” recalled Komarek .
But challenges and high costs associated with that original plan led designers to reconsider alternatives that were evaluated during the early project definition phase .
“ We ’ re now going around the east end of the lake to get to the north
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