Lift station will be replaced

Project will cost $529,155

Residents living in the Hutton Heights mobile homes will see some mid-winter construction, starting in January. The construction is due to the replacement of the city’s water lift station located in Hutton Heights.

“It’s in desperate conditions,” City Engineer Mark Westenskow said.

The station lifts water to the houses in Hutton Heights and to a portion of the Hutton Heights shopping center. Westenskow said plans will be discussed with residents of the area before construction starts.

The city initially planned to replace the Hutton Heights Lift Station as well as the Colliers Lift Station, but the bid the city received, $1,025,730, for replacement costs of both stations was over the budgeted amount of $703,490.

Due to the critical condition of the Hutton Heights Lift Station, and to remain within the available project budget amount, the Engineering and Utilities Division negotiated a bid with Whitaker Construction for replacement of the one lift station, Hutton Heights at this time. The Colliers Lift Station will be replaced, but is not as pertinent as the other.

“Colliers is not as desperate,” Westenskow said. “The Hutton Heights one, we have to babysit pretty well.”

The motion was moved at the city council meeting Tuesday night, to approve the bid amount of $529,155 for the replacement of the Hutton Heights Lift Station.

 

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