MINDEN, La. (KSLA) - A new two-million-gallon water tank is to be built for the City of Minden.

During a special council meeting on Monday afternoon, not only did attending councilpersons vote to issue bonds to pay for the Recreation Complex enhancement, they also voted unanimously to amend the 2025-2026 budget in order to begin building a two-million-gallon water tank for the City of Minden.

“We’re ready to build the thing,” Minden Mayor Nick Cox said. “This amendment allocates the funds – we didn’t put it in our budget at all because we didn’t know about the timing.”

In April 2025, Minden City Council agreed unanimously to advertise for bids to build the tank, which will be around 35-feet tall, round and built on-site. Bids should come in around $3.4M.

“We are going out for bids soon

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