Work is being finalized on the engineering plans for some major improvements to the City of Lamesa’s water supply system, but actual construction is not expected to get underway anytime soon. “We probably won’t be seeing any dirt being pushed on the project until next year,” City Manager Shawna D. Burkhart told the Press-Reporter this week. Once the engineering plans have been completed and submitted to USDA Rural Development, Burkhart said, the project probably will be bid sometime in the second half of this year but possibly not even before the first of next year. The city was approved on Aug. 1, 2018 ...