Wausau Pilot and Review · Weston, WI
Police HQ pipeline crossings still unresolved weeks after Weston was told TC Energy signed off
By Shereen Siewert | Wausau Pilot & Review Pipeline crossings at the Mountain Bay Metro police headquarters remain unresolved, and Weston plan commissioners heard Monday that the pipeline company wants the project to pay to inspect the line. Police Chief Jeremy Hunt told Weston trustees Oct. 19 that TC Energy had already approved the parking lot crossings with contractor 8Pine, Wausau Pilot & Review reported. A Nov. 4 staff report to the Plan Commission says those crossings “have not yet been resolved,” so the parking lot layout may still change. The final site plan, which trustees were told would return in November, now has no timeline. “While it’s not our project, we have a lot tied into it,” one commissioner said Monday. “It is our money.” One speaker cited “this rumor out there” that TC Energy would charge $425,000 to inspect the line where the project crosses, a process described as uncovering the pipe, stripping and checking the coating, recoating the line and burying it again.