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Elk River -~ <br />Municipal Utilities <br />13069 Orono Parkway • P.O. Box 430 <br />Elk River, MN 55330-0430 <br />February 24, 2009 <br />To: Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission <br />Jerry Takle <br />Jerry Gumphrey <br />John Dietz <br />From: Vance Zehringer <br />Subject: Jackson Street Water Tower <br />Phone: 763.441.2020 <br />Fax: 763.441.8099 <br />Elk River Municipal .Utilities has given the Heritage Preservation Commission until Sept <br />2009 to come up with a plan to save the Jackson Street Water Tower. Recently, more <br />activity/interest has occurred in preserving this land mazk, so we did another examination <br />of the structure and made more inquiries to more accurately assess the costs associated <br />with preserving it. <br />Attached is a lab test result performed by Corrosion Control consultants & Labs, <br />subcontractor to KLM Engineering, Inc, which shows the presence of lead based paint. <br />Initial cost estimates were 25K for touch-up painting and SOK to completely repaint the <br />structure. That cost is now estimated to be 128K because the level of lead requires sand <br />blasting to bare metal, and that means draping the tower and disposing of the paint as <br />hazazdous material.. Repainting every 20 years is required. <br />Elk River Municipal Utilities has budgeted 35K in 2009 to demolish the structure. No <br />new estimate has been made to determine if that is adequate to cover demolition now that <br />the structure is considered hazardous! <br />A power point presentation revealing the present state of the structure will be available at <br />the Commission meeting should you wish to review it. <br />