The first step has been made for the City of Orange to extend water and sewer lines along Allie Payne Road.
The Orange City Council agreed to spend $51,955 for the engineering firm of Fittz and Shipman to plan the new lines plus a sewerage lift station.
The council and the city’s Economic Development Corporation board of directors previously agreed to spend $658,000 in the upcoming budget year for the new project.
The city plans to eventually have water and sewer lines all the way westward along Allie Payne Road to Martin Luther King Junior Drive.
The newest segment will be 1,725 feet westward from White Oaks Road.
City Economic Development Director Jay Trahan said the plans call to complete the bidding process by the end of December and have the lines completed next summer.
The money for the project is coming from the special economic development sales tax. Trahan has said the extension of water and sewer service to the area will promote growth in the city.
-Margaret Toal, KOGT-
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