By Bonnie Culverhouse

During a workshop Tuesday, Public Works Director Tyler Wallace made sure members of the Minden City Council were up to date on what will be an extremely large ground water storage tank on Clerk Street.

“It’s about a year-long project,” Wallace said, explaining that citizens use about 2.5 to 3 million gallons of water per day. “If something catastrophic happens, we could last a day with this new tank. If something happened today, we’d last a half a day.”

The tank is “free,” he said, in the “sense that the City owes nothing on it. It’s tied to economic development. There’s no cost to the City of Minden, and there’s no match, and it’s about a $3.4 million job.”

The tank will be around 35-feet tall, round and built on-site, Wallace explained.

“Due to elevation, the back side will be half-way buried in the (ground),” he said.

“I’m very proud of the project, personally,” said Minden Mayor Nick Cox. “I want it to scream City of Minden. I think in the budget, the logo is painted on it. It would be easy to put spotlights on it.

“I think very clean, very simple is the way to go,” he said.