Photo by John RiggWorkers begin to survey the area for the water line encasement project in Jersey Village.
As the Hwy. 290 expansion project nears Jersey Village, the frontage roads and flyovers are expected to be built over the city's inter-connect water line. At their Nov. 19 meeting, Jersey Village City Council approved various ordinances to amend the budget for the 2012–2013 budget to cover costs associated with the encasement of the city's water line.
"We've been informed by TxDOT that our 20-inch water line that we have as the inter-connect with the City of Houston needs to be encased all the way underneath [Hwy. 290] because they are going to be moving the feeder roads," said Michael Brown, director of the parks and recreation department.
In order to cover engineering and surveying costs for the necessary encasement of Jersey Village's inter-connect water line, City Council approved an $87,800 amendment to the utility fund budget.
"When we first built the water line, the requirement was that wherever there is paving, we had to encase it, and we did," said Frank Brown, principal with Brooks and Sparks Inc., a consulting engineering firm. "When [TxDOT] did the flyovers for the Beltway 8 feeder roads and so forth, they built those roads over our line."
