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Algood Officials are inching closer to bidding out a large-scale sewer rehabilitation project.
City Administrator Keith Morrison said the city has completed and submitted plans for the piping of sewer lines to state officials at TDEC. Morrison said however all plans for the project are not finished.
“We are still working on a sewer station upgrade that we are trying to get some electrical plans finished,” Morrison said. “Hopefully once TDEC approves the rehab for the pipe we are going to go ahead and bid out some of the pipework and start doing a replacement of sewer lines.”
Morrison said the city will bid the sewer station separately from the rest of the project. Morrison said the city is hoping to receive approval from TDEC to begin bidding out the piping portion of the project within the next couple of months.
“I would say they would have them finished pretty quick,” Morrison said. “I don’t have an estimated timeline yet but I would say we’ll be out to bid at least by February and hopefully have an approval by March or April and be able to award the contract and start doing some pipe work by June at the latest.”
Morrison said in the plans the city will first target lines in the downtown area. Morrison also said once downtown is complete they will look into what areas within the sewer system will be completed next.
“We’ve got several areas kind of down in town out on Dry Valley Road over on 4th Street and Circle Drive that we have highlighted that have some pipe issues that need to be addressed,” Morrison said. “So we are gonna run with those and see how far we get if we make good progress with that and have a little bit left over then we will reevaluate and see where the worst lines are and fix some more off as we go through the project.”
Morrison said though bidding the entire project will take time the city wants to begin the project as soon as possible as the condition of some sewer lines continues to deteriorate.
“We like to get it going cause we got some lines that are older that are experiencing issues that are having failures,” Morrison said. “Getting those replaced and stopping some of the infiltration of outside water into those lines is important and we need to get that accomplished, so the sooner we get that going the better.
