C-M-O-M

BOONE, Iowa---C MOM is an acronym for capacity, management, operation and maintenance and it refers to sewer lines, both sanitary and storm. For Boone, it will be focus of new efforts to change the action plan accepted by the Iowa DNR to deal with sewer back-ups in basements. Boone Mayor John Slight says he likes the new effort because they won't be digging up so many blocks of street and will get the work done more cost effectively. The focus of the effort will be on the trunk sanitary sewer line on Linn Street, north of the railroad underpass.