Staff writer
After the document was revised Thursday, Florence City Council approved a haul route agreement Monday with TransCanada.
The city council specified the routes that loaded and unloaded trucks could take through the city. Trucks loaded with pipe —at approximately 70,000 pounds — will cross train tracks where they will be loaded and will travel north on Main Street. The trucks will then turn west on Fifth Street to the roundabout intersection of U.S. 50 and U.S. 77. They will then continue north on U.S. 77 until reaching 290th Road where they will head west to Quail Creek Road.
Unloaded trucks will drive south on U.S. 77 past the railroad tracks and turn east on 110th Road. Trucks will then take X Ranch Road north to complete the route back to the loading site.
TransCanada is allowed to take unloaded trucks from U.S. 50 on Main Street, only if the other specified route is deemed unusable.
The haul route agreement stated that TransCanada would be responsible for maintenance resulting from its use of the road.
“The contractor … assumes responsibility for additional maintenance and signing costs and repairs on such roads resulting from its use of such roads as a haul route,” the agreement stated.
The city can inspect the streets and ask for repairs, or perform repairs and ask for a reimbursement from TransCanada. However, TransCanada can inspect the streets before they have to relinquish time and money to Florence.
Before TransCanada will start bringing in trucks, both TransCanada and Florence will take pictures of Main and Fifth streets, and 110th and X Ranch roads to document the condition of the streets before the project begins.
The agreement also calls for TransCanada to give Florence a $500,000 performance bond. The bond is valid for one year following the project’s completion and the city will not have to pay interest on the bond.
The City Council is sending this revamped haul route agreement to TransCanada; it still needs their signature to go into effect.
In other business, a bid from Ship Shape Roofing was accepted to fix the roofs of five city-owned buildings — the water pump building, two pool buildings, a storage building, and the former home economics building — damaged in a hail storm in June.