The Hot Springs Board of Directors will consider a resolution Tuesday to award a nearly $4 million contract for the Stokes Force Main project to Coakley Co.
The board will meet at 7 p.m. in City Hall, 133 Convention Blvd.
City Engineer Gary Carnahan said the project is the last of the large pipeline projects related to the Consent Administrative Order that was levied against the city by the Environmental Protection Agency and mandates that sewer overflows be eliminated.
"The original wastewater system assessment conducted in 2009 identified several key capacity improvements required to mitigate our chronic overflows," Carnahan said in the board action request form.
"This force main is one of those recommended improvements and will address the existing issue at the Stokes Pump Station where the only main exiting the station is undersized for high flow events. This new force main will be used along with the existing main to handle high flows," he said.
The Stokes Basin has 18 of the 21 chronic overflows and the final phase of construction related to eliminating the overflows is the new force main, Carnahan said.
"This new main will be used to convey the Stokes Pump Station daily waste stream directly to the regional treatment plant without being routed through the Hot Springs Pump Station. This project begins at McLeod Street and travels along Panama, McAuley Court, Werner Street, and then to the end of TV Hill Road connecting to the Fairwood IV Force Main near Fontana Street," Carnahan said.
He said Coakley's bid of $3,853,420 was the lowest of the five bids received.
Local on 03/14/2016