The council approved to accept the low bids submitted for two different sewer system projects which were mandated by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management in 2006.
In 2006, the city was cited for major sewer overflows and was given until 2012 to complete all sewer system work outline in the 2006 consent order or face stiff penalties.
Officials say during heavy rain events, rain water infiltrates the sewer system causing major sewer overflows throughout the city.
At Monday night’s meeting, the council approved a $900,000 rehabilitation project in the Shadydale Mobile Home Park area.
Jones Utility and Contracting Company, Inc. was the low bidder for the work called “Project C.”
Byron Woods, an engineer with Municipal Consultants who is helping oversee sewer upgrade projects, said Project C work should take about 200 days to complete.
The council also approved “Project B,” a major sewer project which incorporates most of the sewer rehabilitation work throughout the city. That project will cost the city $6.7 million and take about two and a half years to complete.
Insituform Technologies Inc. was the low bidder for Project B.
“Ya’ll got a great price with a great company,” Woods told the mayor and council at Monday night’s council meeting.
Project B and C include relining old damaged sewer lines to help prevent infiltration of rain water into the sewer system.
“All projects have different completion dates,” Woods said.
The council is expected to hold a special called council meeting next week to approve two final sewer projects required by the 2006 ADEM consent order.
The council is expected to approve, after the Thanksgiving holidays, the $1.4 million Fishing Creek Phase II project which will increase the pumping capacity for that lift station. Cosper Construction appears to be the low bidder for that project.
The council is also expected to approve the low bid for the work to replace the old Wolf Creek Lift Station next week.
The exact day and time for next week’s special called council meeting was not set Monday night.
Woods said all the work required by the ADEM consent order should be completed by the required date, Sept. 14, 2012.
In recent months, the city secured an $18.3 million loan through the state’s revolving fund loan program, but $6.3 million of the funds are from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or stimulus money, and the city will only have to pay back $12 million of the SRF loan.
Under the consent agreement, the city also upgraded the Dye Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. That expansion project cost the city about $5.1 million. That money came from a $10 million bond issue.
Also with that bond money lift stations at the baseball complex and soccer field were updated and a new lift station was installed at the civic center. New 16-inch sewer lines were also installed along Golf Course Road, from the civic center lift station to the sewer plant. In addition the Fishing Creek Phase I lift station work was completed, which upgraded that lift station.
Recent sewer work includes inspection and the rehabilitation of sewer lines in the Eden area, and the construction of the Northern Inceptor, which is a large sewer line running from where the new Wolf Creek lift station is expected to be built to the Fishing Creek lift station.
In other matters Monday night, the council:
• Approved to have water lines evaluated along Golf Course Road.
• Approved a proclamation recognizing the local Civil Air Patrol in Pell City.
• Announced that the council will hold a work session at 4 p.m., Monday, Dec. 14. A council meeting will follow directly after the work session.
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