Civil Municipal - Feb 2024

water and sewer infrastructure in the ground. And we currently have a project underway to replace a mile and a half of water and sewer lines on Liberty Street, which is a main thoroughfare for the city of York.”He says this project will take approximately 18 months to complete, at a cost of $5 million. Looking ahead, the city is hoping to receive some funding from the state to put towards another waterline in a main area of the community.“We know we’ve got to upgrade this infrastructure. It will make our service a lot more reliable and a lot better,” admits the mayor. In response to the increasing trend of remote work, York is investing in enhanced connectivity.“There are companies that are putting fiber optics in the ground to upgrade the services that we have in the city right now. Typically, everything’s overhead, and it is cable, but there’s some companies that are putting the fiber optics in and we certainly need it. There are parts of the county that have hardly any internet service and definitely not fiber optics,” asserts Fuesser. Highlighting a collaboration between York Electric Co Op and Comporium, Fuesser says the city aims to expand the reach to these rural areas. “There’s a S th C ina 142 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 5, ISSUE 02 BUSINESS VIEW AGAZINE VOLUME 11, ISSUE 01