HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The sale of the Obee school property has run into another snag as of a few weeks ago, according to Hutchinson Airport Manager Pieter Miller.
"They have agreed to the lease that we offered them for the property just to the west side of the school there," Miller said. "The snag at this point is that property also includes, I mean, the school itself includes a force main sewer line that runs through the airport and ties into the city's sanitary sewer system over here at the intersection of 4th and Airport Road. I guess the lift station grinder pump, whatever it is, wasn't working the way it was and it was looking to be pretty expensive to get that working the way that it is, so they were exploring their options of what they would be able to do."
Miller hasn't heard any more about it since last month, but the buyers needed to figure out if fixing the sewer line is or is not too expensive to make the overall deal work.
"We're kind of just waiting," Miller said. "They've had some plumbers and some engineers, I guess, go over and talk with them and figure out what's going on."
The City Council approved sharing the cost of required FAA survey work to get the sale accomplished earlier this year.