Municipal Pipelines

Also critical to our daily lives are pipelines for municipal drinking water and water for fire protection and sanitary sewer and storm water conveyance systems. Surveys by the EPA of United States of water infrastructure needs indicate that municipal water distribution systems, and in particular the buried transmission and distribution pipeline system, are in dire need of rehabilitation. The EPA study estimated a total required expenditure of $80 billion over the next 20 years just for pipelines. Significant public disruption will occur as conventional "dig and replace" techniques are used in this rehabilitation program. Despite the fact that underground water pipelines may lie within existing easements, temporary construction easements and, occasionally, new easements and acquisition of property in fee title may be required.

Even use of so-called "trenchless" water pipeline renovation requires some degree of access to private land and, therefore, at least temporary easements.

Cinnabar has extensive experience in working with municipal and county governments on publicly-funded projects. Our company and its agents are acutely aware that public agencies must be sensitive to the potential for unhappy taxpayers to call the local newspaper and the local TV “troubleshooter” with its roving cameras, or show up at city council meetings with banners and petitions. And although local governments' work hard to avoid the exercise of eminent domain, Cinnabar agents’ documentation is a major asset when condemnation proceedings must be initiated.

It is this experience that makes Cinnabar Service Company a solid choice to assist in achieving the acquisition of rights of way needed for municipal pipeline projects.