Plans to erect a new equipment and materials storage building for the Caldwell County Water District continue to progress, but an infrastructure conflict may force an adjustment in the building’s planned location.

Water district directors began looking for a new building site after their previous storage facility on West Washington Street was demolished following a fire in August 2009.

In December, the water district settled on a section of land on the county recycling center property at Good and Eagan streets as the site for the new facility.

On Thursday, project designer Bob Pickerill, of Bell Engineering, presented the board with architectural drawings for the building.

The design envisions a metal building with an office area and an open bay capable of holding the water district’s truck and equipment trailer, plus materials and other equipment.

“It’s going to be a nice facility,” said board Chairman James Wilson.

The original layout for the building, though, will change.

Sewer and gas lines found on the property run under the middle of the proposed building site.

“We’re going to have to move the building, in other words,” Wilson said. “It’s not going to lay the way we wanted it to.”

The gas line could be relocated, but the sewer line is a different issue, Pickerill said.

Current plans call for the building to be shifted away from the sewer and gas lines.

The move will decrease the turning room available for the water district’s vehicles, he noted.

To compensate, two gates will be included in fencing planned around the building: one off Good Street and one off the gravel access road leading to the recycling center.

By the board’s next meeting, all construction drawings should be complete, Pickerill said.

The board may elect to advertise for contracting bids at that point.

“It will probably be October before we can get started on something,” Wilson said.

The board approved a $4,875 invoice from Bell Engineering for design work on the project to date.

Pickerill also updated the board on the status of the Phase VIII and Phase VIII change order line extension projects.

All the lines are in the ground and have been flushed and tested, he said.

Cumberland Pipeline crew members are now working on project cleanup, which should be complete by the end of the month, weather permitting, he said.

“They made a real effort to try to finish this one strong,” he noted.

The board approved a Cumberland Pipeline pay request for $32,474.43 and a Bell Engineering request for $9,233.13 for work on the project.