The City of Monroe Water Resources Department has dedicated the new Rocky River Road water storage tank . Mayor Bobby Kilgore, several City Council members and representatives from Willis Engineering were on hand to celebrate the completion of the project.
The new water tank is the tallest in the Monroe system at more than 185 feet tall. The tank holds a volume of one million gallons (8.3 million pounds of water when full), and provides a significant increase in storage capacity in the city’s west pressure zone. The total project budget was $2.3 million. Completed at the same time were the West Zone Water Main projects. These projects provided water transmission mains that connected the new tank to the water pumping facility on Goldmine road, and were completed for a total cost of $1.7 million.
The tank has an innovative composite materials design (concrete pedestal and steel bowl) and is the first of this type in Union County. The new tank and the west zone water main improvements significantly expand the city’s service area for potential new developments in the Rocky River and Weddington Road area.
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