(Spencer)—Spencer Municipal Utilities is moving forward with plans to expand its fiber to home communications service along with updating its water treatment plant.
Amanda Gloyd of Spencer Municipal Utilities tells KUOO news the fiber to home project will replace existing copper infrastructure such as telephone wires and coaxial cable…(click here for comment.) “Having fiber to home is just going to help keep our customers on the cutting edge, just like internet service has evolved from dial-up to dsl to cable modem, fiber is just going to be the next level of service to improve the way customers live, work and play here in Spencer. This project we’re planning to expand with phase one here later this summer and then if money and time allows we’ll be working in the second phase of that project. Both of those will be in the west area of Spencer.”
From there, Gloyd says the project will expand to other areas of the city in future years.
Another capital project Spencer Municipal Utilities is embarking upon is an update of the water treatment plant. Gloyd says plans for the project are based upon studies initiated last year…(click here for comment.) “Those studies are near the end and their currently in the engineering and planning phase. We’re looking at estimated $14 million 2 1/2 year project to update the water plant here in Spencer.”
She says the current plant was built in 1970…(click here for comment.) “There’s been a couple of upgrades since then, but several of the things in the plant are still there from how they were in 1970.”
Gloyd says the project will be funded with financing over 20 years through water revenue bonds, and that customer’s rates will be adjusted accordingly.
