The Niagara Falls City Council is holding a special meeting Thursday to vote on replacing a water pipe that's been causing plenty of headaches for the city and dozens of residents.
Over the past two winters, some people living on 72nd Street went weeks without water because the main under the street froze. Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster says the project is expected to cost just over $676,000.
"City Council, before we went on break, indicated that they wanted to see action taken on this. I think there was consensus on that. There is a significant price tag attached to this. But there's also, I think, a significant possibility, maybe even a probability, that some significant portion of the project cost can be recovered through grant funding," Dyster said.
The mayor is asking the council to use road paving funds to cover most of the project's cost until the grants come through.
He says if the funding is approved, the water main could be replaced by mid-November.