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172 <br />199 Member DeBenedet opined that the City should be liberal in furnishing bottled <br />200 water to avoid any issues on safety and /or taste. While never having tasted water <br />201 from lined pipes, Member DeBeneda noted that he had smelled the process <br />202 during the Metropolitan Council's Environmental Services (MCES) sewer <br />203 interceptor line process, and the smell had been quite strong during that process. <br />204 <br />205 At the request of Chair Vanderwall, Member DeBenedet, based on his research <br />206 during his Cap Stone project, advised that while staff had consulted with other <br />207 communities about their experience using these processes, few communities had <br />208 used the process to -date for water lines as it had been a much more expensive <br />209 process than limes sanitary sewer lines. <br />210 <br />211 At the request of Chair Vanderwall, Mr. Schwartz addressed reconstruction of <br />212 Rice Street in the future and whether open cut water main replacements would be <br />213 more cost effective than the lining. Mr. Schwartz noted that the City had open cut <br />214 water main replacements as a part of this year's Pavement Management Program <br />215 (PMP); and advised that the cost depended on how much other utility work and <br />216 other components of the project were being done in conjunction, all impacting the <br />217 cost. Mr. Schwartz advised that staff thought this year's project at $100 /foot <br />Page 5 of 13 <br />