Ribbon cutting for new city irrigation facility Friday
The city of Cape Coral will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new $11 million irrigation system this Friday.
The event for the Southwest Pine Island Road Irrigation Tanks and High-Service Pump Station will begin at 10 a.m. at the facility at 610 Commercial Park Place, north of Southwest Pine Island Road and west of Chiquita Boulevard.
The public is welcome to attend.
This remote storage and pumping facility will serve the city’s irrigation systems with two 5-MG prestressed, reinforced concrete ground storage tanks and a high service pump station.
This $11.4 million capital improvement project also includes a 36-inch reclaimed water transmission pipeline from the new facility to the intersection of Pine Island Road and Commercial Park Place, where a connection is made to the irrigation water distribution system.
According to Kaitlyn Pearson, a city spokesperson, the new station will increase irrigation water storage capacity from 25 to 35 million gallons.
Each storage tank holds 5 million gallons of reclaimed water and is 160 feet across and 45 feet high at the dome. Approximately three feet of the structures are buried in the ground.
Each storage tank is designed to collect rainwater across the dome’s surface and channel it along the structure and into the tank for use in the city’s irrigation system. There is enough concrete between the dome and floor structures of the irrigation storage tanks to be the equivalent of three miles of sidewalk.
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