The City of Savannah is planning to upgrade the force main pipes between the New Hampstead lift station 193 to the Chatham County Megasite lift station. The upgrade will increase capacity to convey sewage to the Travis Field Wastewater Treatment Plant and serve growing new residential and industrial development in the Southwest Quadrant of the City.

The City must acquire easements across seven parcels owned by six property owners to facilitate this sewer line project. Real Estate Services has completed title work, appraisals of the required easements, and made offers to the six owners based on the appraised values. All six of the owners accepted the appraised values. The acquisition work has been performed in accordance with federal and state laws and processes involving the acquisition of real property rights by a government entity. All six individual owners have agreed to the sale of their respective easements. A summary is provided in the below table.

Recommend approval to acquire requisite easements from affected property owners based on values noted totaling $33,761. Further request authorization for the City Manager to execute any associated closing documents.

Approval