Waterline bids come in under budget, city says

June 4, 2023 at 4:04 a.m.

by David Showers

This photo, posted in July 22 on the city of Hot Springs' Lake Ouachita Water Supply Project website, shows the 48-inch welded steel cross where the raw water transmission main splits to feed the Ouachita Water Treatment Plant on Cozy Acres Road with a 30-inch ductile iron pipe and the 42-inch welded steel pipe that will allow water from Lake Ouachita to flow by gravity to the new water treatment plant. - Submitted photo
This photo, posted in July 22 on the city of Hot Springs' Lake Ouachita Water Supply Project website, shows the 48-inch welded steel cross where the raw water transmission main splits to feed the Ouachita Water Treatment Plant on Cozy Acres Road with a 30-inch ductile iron pipe and the 42-inch welded steel pipe that will allow water from Lake Ouachita to flow by gravity to the new water treatment plant. - Submitted photo

Low bids opened May 8 totaled about two-thirds of the budget for the last 9 miles of the 24-inch ductile iron line that will distribute finished water from the new treatment plant the city is building off Amity Road.

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