$3.2M water, sewer contract awarded for SW residential area
By Medicine Hat News on December 11, 2020.
Long-suffering residents near Bullivant Crescent in the city’s southwest will see more major sewer work on two blocks in the area move forward in 2021. Council received bid results for water line and sanitary sewer replacement work there on Monday and awarded the $3.2-million project that will proceed in the spring. As well, “dilapidated” concrete and storm sewers will be replaced at the same time in a wholesale infrastructure update done by local firm BYZ enterprises. The work along 12th Street SW (from Bullivant to Fourth Ave.) is coupled with similar work on the 900 block of 17th Street in the Southwest Light Industrial area. The contract is paid out of the 2020 utility departmental budgets for annual replacements, though municipal works will be responsible for road surface, drainage and sidewalk replacement. Residents in the community have long complained about sewer backups, and work to reline portions of the systems, which originate in commercial areas to the west, took place in the last decade. Now, engineers say the sanitary main in the specific area is deteriorated and needs replacing. “Fair” waterlines will be upgraded at the same time for convenience and cost reasons. On 17th Street, lines that are in poor condition will be replaced with larger infrastructure. Nine companies bid on the work package that was advertised this fall. BYZ’s bid was the lowest. Five other bids were valued at less than $3.5 million. Work is expected to start on April 1, 2021 and be complete by mid-November. 11-10
