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THE SEA COAST ECHO • HANCOCK TODAY
THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 2000 » 19
FORM OF GOVERNMENT INCORPORATED CITIES TOTAL POPULATION
TOTAL LAND AREA
ALTITUDE
CLIMATE
RAINFALL
SHERIFF S DEPARTMENT
CHURCHES
SCHOOLS
RAILROADS BUS LINES HIGHWAYS
MEDICAL
SHOPPING CENTERS PUBLIC LIBRARY
STATE PARK COUNTY PARK INDUSTRIAL PARKS
BANKS
Board of Supervisors
Bay St. Louis and Waveland
31,760 (1990 Census); 24,496
(1980 Census); 42,000+ (2000 Projected)
485 square miles
Average elevation is 15 feet above sea level Average temperature is 68 degrees;
350 frost-free days
Average rainfall is 60 inches
62 full-time employees; 53 auxiliary;
2	stations; 30 vehicles
25 churches, 12 denominations
Hancock County School District and
Bay-Waveland School District
CSX Railroad, Amtrak Passenger Service
Greyhound and Trailways
U.S. Highway 90, Interstate 10, M.S.
Highway 603, 607, 43, 53, and 604
Hospital - Hancock Medical Center; 104-bed
capacity and full emergency facility,
Ambulance - Mobile Medic, 39 physicians,
6 dentists, 2 dermatologists, 1 opthalmolo
gist, 3 optometrists, 3 orthodontists,
and 5 veterinarians
Nine
County library with 3 branches:
Bay St. Louis, Kiln, Waveland Buccaneer State Park McLeod Water Park Port Bienville Industrial Park,
Stennis Air Park 4 with 14 Branches
BY ED LEPOMA Staff Writer
Hancock County's Water and Sewer District is poised to begin an ambitious program to provide water to some residents of the Shoreline Park community, which has now been sewered.
The District's consulting engineer, Duke Levy, and his associates held a pre-construction meeting Thursday afternoon with the three contractors who will work simultaneously on the $2.1 million project.
Projector engineer Bruce Newton said he expects the firm will issue "a notice to proceed" the first week of July.
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the construction program would be laying down the
125,000	to 130,000 feet or 25 miles of four-to 12-inch water pipes to distribute the water. Initially, 500 residents of the waterfront community on
the east side of state Hwy. 603 will be hooked up to the water system.
Newton said Greenbriar Construction of Brookhaven was low bidder on that portion of the project at $1,617,447.
The water lines would be laid on the rights of ways on the opposite side of the streets, and cannot run alongside the sewer lines, Newton explained.
A water well would have to be dug 900 to 1,000-feet deep, and Newton said the District has purchased property off Hwy. 603 and 1st Street. Lyman Well Co., oi Gulfport was low bidder or the well at $268,395.
The distribution system would also require s
150,000-gallon backup ele vated water tank. Newtor said the tank would be buill on county property of Chapman behind the Easi
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