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Water plant renovation nears completion date
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The nearly $2.5 millon renovation of Smithvilles water treatment plant should be completed by the end of the month. - photo by Photo by: Reed Vanderpool

The almost $2.5 million renovation of the Smithville Water Treatment is in its final stages.
The city has spent has spent nearly $2.4  million of the available $2,592,000 on the project, leaving $193,000 in the budget.
Officials said that the city has already been reimbursed $433,892 in grant money from the state.
"To date we have spent $2,399,000 out of $2,592,000 so there's roughly $193,000 remaining,” City Treasurer Hunter Hendrixson said at the last meeting of the council.
“A total of $433,892 has been paid back to us through the CDBG grant, so we're getting close to being done," Hendrixson  said.
"The water plant is state of the art,” Mayor Taft Hendrixson added. “All of you need to see that. They're resurfacing the terrazzo floor and it's going to look good. It already looks good."
W&O Construction Company of Livingston was awarded the construction bid in February 2010, and began work on the project in August of that year.
The job was bid at  $2,542,000.
The city applied for and received a $500,000  grant from the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development to help defray the cost of the renovation.
The $2,342,000 remainder of the required funding was drawn from the city's water and sewer fund surplus.
The renovation includes a new computerized monitoring system, a new back-up generator, new pumps, a new chlorinator, new wiring and electrical boxes, new control panels, new storage tanks and a new liquid fluoride feeder system.