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City of Cookeville received two bids for sewer rehab work on South Jefferson Avenue from the Putnam County Courthouse to the interstate.
Water Quality Control Director Barry Turner said the low bid came in at some $1.9 million. He said they were pleased that number was right at what the department had budgeted for the project.
“Quite a bit of the sewer line on south Jefferson was needing to be rehabbed,” Turner said. “So this project rehabs a little over 5,000 feet of the main line. A lot of it we’re doing without digging, 4,800 feet of cured-in-place pipe where we put a liner in the sewer line without digging it up and then 800 feet of pipe bursting.”
Turner said the project is budgeted for the coming fiscal year. He said if the council awards the bid, the company said they hope to start in August.
Barring unexpected or major delays, Turner said the work is expected to take about six months. He said because they are able to do a lot of the work without digging, the project will be less disruptive to traffic flow.
“A lot of this will be no-dig, but they will have to dig out the laterals, there’s about fifty laterals they have to dig out,” Turner said.”So it will be a disruption, no doubt about that. But we hopefully have enough in the contract to do some good detours and stuff around the traffic.”
Turner said in addition to the sewer rehab, the department will open bids on June 6th for water line rehab on that same line of work.
