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Metzger Pipeline East: Better Together

Cost Effective – Minimizes Impacts – Coordinated - Combined

The project consists of three construction projects combined into one partnership project that will result in cost savings and fewer community and environmental construction impacts. The project consists of:
The Willamette Water Supply System (WWSS) 48-inch eastern pipeline connection—connects the new system to TVWD’s existing system.
TVWD Metzger Pipeline—a capital improvement project to serve the Metzger area that was planned to be permitted and built as a separate TVWD project that has been integrated into the MPE_1.0; and
City of Beaverton 16-inch pipeline—this new water line improves system resiliency across a portion of Beaverton combined with needed roadway and pedestrian improvements on Western Avenue.

ODOT 217 Auxiliary Lane Project coordination streamlines needs for both agencies

Better Together.

Building Smarter.

Maximizing cost effectiveness:

Reducing environmental impacts:

Reducing community impacts through combined and coordinated construction:

Integrating Beaverton 16-inch waterline reduces construction
Merging TVWD’s needed Metzger connection with the WWSS’s planned eastern connection eliminates a need for a second pipeline through the area and streamlines construction
Synchronizing Western Ave roadway improvements lessens impacts through one coordinated effort

miles of 48-inch pipeline

miles of 16-inch pipeline

miles of 24-inch pipeline

TUNNELS
HWY 217 (2), Fanno Cr (2), and WES RR (1)

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Beaverton Sexton Mt/Neighbors SW NAC July 20, 2021 Meeting

Metzger Pipeline East anticipated to be complete before ODOT’s OR217 construction

ODOT coordination
Tunnel under OR217 must be completed before ODOT’s construction of Stormwater Detention facility

Western Ave Roadway work in 2021/2022

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PIPE MATERIALS: Steel with welded joints, cement mortar lining, polyurethane coating
TYPICAL LENGTH: 48 feet
DIAMETER: Mostly 66-inch, but also some 48-, 24-, and 16-inch
TYPICAL WEIGHT: Approximately 20,000-25,000 pounds depending on steel thickness - about the weight of an armored car