Mojave County continues to grapple with long-standing issues in the Horizon Six Improvement District this year, preparing to replace the district’s 40-year-old water system. I have only one problem. The county may have to damage a driveway or two to do that.
But that may not matter next week. The easement will allow the contractor to relocate her 4000-block waterline on Lakeview Road. Without that easement, contractors would have to remove and replace the concrete driveway in their ongoing efforts to repair and replace the district’s water system.
And it costs the county only $10 to obtain that easement. A copy of the agreement was available Thursday through the agenda for his March 6 meeting of the Mojave County Board of Supervisors. When the template for that agreement was first drafted, $10 was of considerable value to the county’s economy.
“In consideration of these presents, in exchange for ten dollars and other valuable and valuable consideration, the giver hereby assigns to the Horizon 6 Improvement District of Mojave County, Arizona that the receipt thereof shall be acknowledged. Please be aware, and throughout the property and appurtenances listed below.”
An easement becomes something else if it is a small step to alleviate the district’s ailing water system. The county has budgeted $2.75 million toward replacing the water system in 2021 through funds awarded under the 2021 American Relief Plan Act. But inflation may have increased the total estimated cost of the project to her more than $6 million before work was completed, according to county records last month.
Built in 1984, the water system has suffered multiple breakdowns and needed repairs over the past decade. It has an inoperable water pump, possible asbestos insulation, five inoperable pressure relief valves, and as many as five fire hydrants in his district that were inoperable as of last year. Residents of the district have long attempted to permanently repair or replace their water system.
The City of Lake Havasu Fire Department has announced that the Horizon Six water system is unable to provide sufficient water pressure for modern firefighting equipment, a problem so prevalent in the district that it will terminate its long-standing fire protection agreement with the district in 2020. was.
The pending water system replacement is expected to extend the life of the Horizon Six community’s water system by as much as 100 years, according to county records.
The Mojave County Board of Supervisors plans to vote on whether to approve a proposed easement to divert the Lakeview Road waterline at its next meeting in Kingman on Monday.
