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CIP Amendment to add the paving of 61st Street North for the half mile east of 167th Street West (R346). (District 3).
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Recommend Action: Approve the CIP Amendment.
ICM is constructing a major expansion to their ethanol production facility in Colwich. Ethanol production requires large quantities of biomass (grain, sorghum or other agricultural products) and produces large quantities of liquid ethanol. The raw materials and product must both be shipped into and out of the production facility.
The plant shipping entrance will be located approximately a half mile east of 167th Street West on 61st Street North. Highway K-96 is located two miles north of the intersection of 61st Street North and 167th Street West. ICM plans for shipments to use this route.
61st Street North between 151st Street and 167th Street North is currently a gravel road maintained by the County. The west half mile is in the corporate limits of Colwich but maintained by the County as a connecting link. ICM and the City of Colwich have asked the County to pave the half mile adjacent to the ICM site to an industrial standard in order to support the increased traffic volume from the expanded plant operation. The best information available indicates that production will start in the summer of 2019. The paving of 61st Street North will need to be completed in 2018 or early 2019. Project cost including right of way and utility relocations is estimated at $600,000.
Public Works has recommend that 167th be improved for the increase in truck traffic by adding a two inch hot mix asphalt overlay from 61st Street North to Highway K-96. Initial plans are to try to absorb the overlay project into the annual preventative maintenance work (R175). It is not included in this CIP Amendment but Public Works notes that additional funding may be needed at a later date if market pricing for preventative maintenance projects is not favorable. (Current estimate for the two inch overlay is $350,000.)
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