VILLAGE COUNCIL AWARDS $2.6M SEWER RE-BID CONTRACT TO J&H

Our New Boston Village Council met in special session this Friday afternoon to review and award bids for the upcoming village sewer project.   As some of you may know, this is the second time we have had to bid the work, after tentatively offering, and then rescinding, an award to Fields Excavating of Kitts Hill earlier in the month.  After another round of bidding, the council voted to offer a tentative bid contract to J & H Reinforcing and Structural Erectors, Inc. of Portsmouth.

Back in 2005, the Ohio Environment Protection Agency (EPA) began sending letters to the village asking for a long-term control sewer control plan that would divide the village's current combined sewer system into two separate lines, one sewer line and one storm water line.  Chief among their concerns is the village's combined sewer overflows (CSO), which is what occurs when too much water and sewage flow through the sewer lines.  When that happens, the excess flow will bypass the two pump stations and dump into the river.  The EPA is also concerned about instances of overflows happening inside people's basements.

The project was bid for three phases:  the Base Bid (storm sewer separation work from Munn's Run to Harrisonville Avenue), Alternative A (on Rhodes Avenue, from Harrisonville to Glenwood Avenue), and Alternative B (from Rhodes Avenue, up to Glenwood Avenue). 

It is important to mention that the Village has received some grant funding for part of this project but remaining costs will have to be paid by the village.   Time schedules for beginning of actual work will be made available in the near future.

Mike Payton
10-26-2013