Engineers detail 7,500-foot Jenkins Road force main, creek and railroad crossings

Shane Ostrander described construction details for CIP 2.2b, saying the "project requires 7,500 feet of force main to make connection to the new plant," with directional drilling under 10 Mile Creek and crossings of the George LeStrange Preserve. He said the design was 100% complete and permitting had been submitted to governing agencies.

Oral comments and photographs in the presentation showed horizontal directional drilling to minimize impacts at 10 Mile Creek and jack-and-bore methods to cross the FEC railroad twice near Glades Cutoff; staff said these techniques are intended to reduce surface disturbance but acknowledged that significant clearing of right-of-way through mostly wooded areas will occur. A board member asked whether much of the route was wilderness; staff confirmed clearing and right-of-way mobilization would be required and permitted.