Springdale Receives Airport Renovation Grant

SPRINGDALE -- The path for a new access road to the city airport soon should be cleared.

A $150,000 grant from the state Department of Aeronautics will help pay for moving fuel tanks in the path of the new road, said Wyman Morgan, city director of administration and financial services.

Keith Tencleave, a project manager for Garver Engineers, announced the grant at a Springdale Airport Commission meeting Thursday.

The project will cost $177,594, with the city paying the remainder of the cost. The City Council committed to paying up to $150,000 on the project from its Capital Improvement Program fund, Morgan said. The cost for the city will be $27,594, he said.

"We should start the demo of the old tanks in June and finish installing in July," Tencleave said.

The airport has two groupings of tanks holding aviation fuel, which are called fuel farms. The oldest is in the path of a proposed road to the airport terminal.

The new road will be built with grants from the Federal Aviation Administration and the Arkansas Department of Aeronautics, Morgan said. The FAA grant will be $750,000, Tencleave said. Bids will be opened in June with construction expected to start in August or September, he said.

The new road is needed because traffic at Jones Elementary School, at 900 S. Powell St., can block the entrance to the terminal on Airport Drive. Parents picking up or dropping off their children use Airport Drive to enter the school.

NW News on 04/18/2014

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