News Talk 94.1/AM 1600 Where The Upper Cumberland Talks
A project to update Monterey’s aging sewer lines will get underway soon.
Nathaniel Green is the consulting engineer for the city.
“It seems that the culmination of efforts that we’ve had since 2014 to get a CDBG (Community Development Block Grant) up here and apply it to sewer and water is coming to fruition,” Green said. “We’ve actually let the bidding on the project.”
Green said he expects to open bids sometime next month.
“I’ve got it split up into a base bid and two add alternates so we can try to use every penny that we’ve got,” Green said. “The base bid consists of about twenty-eight hundred feet of rehab and 17 manholes. Beyond that, the next base bid is about thirty-eight hundred feet of line and probably eight manholes.”
Green said final alternate is a little bit larger than the first two bids.
“I’m not sure if we will get to the third one or the second one, but I just to make sure that we have something split up so we can do it,” Green said. “Of course, prices are coming in a little bit higher than they were three or four years ago.”
Monterey will use a $475,000 Community Development Block Grant to pay for the project.
The base bid involves making repairs to lines on Industrial Drive and Standing Stone Road. Holly Street and Commercial Avenue are part of the add alternate bids.
“If for some reason something happens and we do have money left over, we have some different areas we can shift to,” Green said. “We just haven’t added them to any plans yet because we’re trying to work with what we’ve got.”
Water treatment plant supervisor Duane Jarrett helped determine which lines should be replaced.
