JEFFERSONVILLE —
Jeffersonville’s Sanitary Sewer Board approved a $1.97 million bid from Mac Construction and Excavating to replace an aging sewer pumping station near Mill Creek.
A nearly 45-year-old, six-million-gallon-per-day pump will be replaced with an 8-million-gallon-per-day pump. Jorge Lanz, engineer with the firm Jacobi, Toombs and Lanz, said an even larger pump would have been installed there, but some of the flow the old pump currently handles will be diverted to a proposed new sewer plant on the city’s north end in the future, so a larger pump was not necessary. The rest of the flow will go to the downtown sewer treatment plant.
The job was put out for bid earlier this month and five companies — Mac, Pace Contracting LLC, American Contracting & Services, Smith Contractors Inc. and Dugan & Meyers Construction Co. — responded. Mac’s was the lowest bid, coming in below the engineer’s estimate of $2.38 million. Mac also was the contractor on a job rehabilitating the city’s downtown plant in recent years.
The board is hoping to pay for the project with a State Revolving Fund loan, so the unanimous approval given to the motion accepting the bid was contingent upon the state’s OK.
Lanz pointed out that the state is expected to give the city a reduced interest rate — half a point lower — because the city is using an energy-efficient pump.
In other business
• The city approved a motion putting a planned sewer installation project on King Road, off Charlestown Pike, out for bid. The project will make sewer service available to about 19 homes in the area, including some on Charlestown Pike. It’s one of several sewer installation project planed in the outer areas of the city, following substantial annexations in 2009 and 2010.
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