Engineering and Public Works 2025 Annual Report

2025 PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION (SCADA) SYSTEM In 2025, the City continued its expansion of the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system through the rehabilitation of three manholes along the Minnesota River. The SCADA system monitors sanitary sewer flows in the City’s system to assist in identifying potential capacity issues, system failures, and track system in real time without the need to access the sewer manholes for inspections. property owners during the hectic construction process. If any property owner has questions or concerns that occur before, during or after construction, the City’s Engineering staff are available to assist in any way we can. City staff can answer questions about the construction projects; the internet companies will need to be contacted directly for questions about service options, pricing, and availability. FIBER INTERNET PROJECTS Three major fiber internet providers began the installation of high-speed fiber internet throughout the community to provide alternate home internet options for residents. Metronet (now T-Mobile Fiber) and Gigapower (a joint venture between AT&T and BlackRock) began expanding their regional services into Shakopee in 2025, and Nuvera completed a project in 2024 in the Southbridge area. The fiber construction is completed by private contractors under a right-of-way permit issued by the City and consists of directionally boring conduits, reducing the excavation required for installing fiber cables. The installation in most locations occurred in the City’s right-of-way or utility easements along the roadway. These projects created challenges for the City’s Public Works and Engineering Departments to manage, during both the permitting stage and construction of the improvements. These challenges included finding appropriate locations for the new utilities in congested corridors, minimizing impacts to private properties including irrigation systems and utility services, locating City-owned utilities throughout the entire city (sometimes more than once), and ensuring proper turf restoration is completed. The City understands the weight of these impacts to

DOWNTOWN LIGHTING IMPROVEMENTS The Engineering and Public Works Departments completed the second phase of the Downtown Lighting and Sidewalk Replacement Project along Holmes Street between First and Third Avenue. The project included replacing the deteriorating street lighting system with decorative, energy-efficient LED poles and fixtures. In addition to the lighting system, the brick pavers along the street curb were removed and replaced with a concrete walk to alleviate trip hazards and drainage issues. This was the second phase in a four-year project that spans the downtown area from Fuller Street to Sommerville Street.

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