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community of Shorewood, including COVID-19 pandemic. While public works the work started to confirm or delete
the police and fire departments and was still on the job, city hall shut down items that needed to be upgraded.
Shorewood’s Public Works department. and staff was working from home until
the beginning of June. In addition to Other cities facing the possibility of
No project is perfect, and Tonka Bay that, there was an issue with the painting water treatment plant renovations need
did experience some minor problems subcontractor. The process of painting to make sure they are clear on what their
during the renovation. American Iron the water treatment plant took months objectives are and to keep coming back
and Steel certified parts were hard to longer than it should have. What seemed to them during the renovation to see
get in a timely fashion, and there were like a never-ending job finally did end in if it’s still what they intended when the
unforeseen issues inside the walls near June, six months after it was supposed to process was started. Things can change,
where a new door on the second level have been done. and frequently do, during the renovation
was supposed to be installed so the filter of an existing, aged facility.
media could be brought in. The natural If the city had to do it again, what might
gas line to the generator had to be dug they have done differently? More time 1. Soilquality.org.au, (Hazleton and Murphy)“Cations
after the season’s frost set in, making should have been spent going over and Cation Exchange Capacity,” 2020
that a challenge. One problem, that the plans with the city engineer before 2 & 3. Graymont “Lime in Water Treatment,” 2019
no one could have foreseen, was the bidding and with the contractor before

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