Loveland City Manager Steve Adams authorized emergency funding Tuesday to help quickly repair a series of leaks in one of the city’s primary water transmission pipelines, which runs along Wilson Avenue.
The leakage will cause one lane of Wilson Avenue to close between Eisenhower Boulevard and 22nd Street for a few weeks while the pipe is replaced, though neither an exact project schedule nor lane closure has been determined.
Eight leaks have occurred in the line in the past three weeks. It’s leakage at an “unprecedented” rate, said Joe Bernosky, director of Loveland Water and Power.
The declaration of emergency does not indicate a threat to anyone’s safety; it merely declares an immediate need for a fix and allows the work to get done right away. The city can now select a contractor without needing to wait for approval from the City Council.
“We’re worried about going into worse weather and that line really just splitting apart,” Adams said Tuesday. “On Sunday, we were out (fixing a leak), then (Monday) we came back out, and the leak is now 10 feet down. … If it’s got this many leaks in three weeks, we could be fighting this all winter long.”
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