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City to consolidate public works

City considered expanding current location

January 26, 2023

Gordon Weeks

The City of Shelton's public works yard for 75 years has been at 1000 West Pine St., behind Loop Field and Evergreen Elementary School. The city wants to move it, and all public works operations, to a 5-acre site on city property in Mountainview.

The City of Shelton is planning to move its congested public works yard from behind Loop Field and Evergreen Elementary School to a wooded 5-acre site that houses Well No. 1 at Shelton Springs Road and North 13th Street.

The "laydown yard" would just be the start for the transformation of the triangle-shaped piece of land just north of Mason General Hospital.

"All public works would be combined in one center," Public Works Director Jay Harris told the Shelton City Council on Jan. 17. The project would be conducted in three phases over the next nine years.

For 75 years, the city's public wor...

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