MONROE - The city's Lakeside Heights project to improve water, wastewater and streets in the subdivision southeast of Recreation Park is on schedule to begin mid-April, according to George Thompson, director of water and wastewater utilities.
The Common Council approved three parts of the start-up plans Tuesday by awarding construction contracts, approving the certified survey map of the area and approving an easement agreement with Lakeside Heights Inc.
Thompson said he will be going over the construction plan details with the contractors beginning in early April. The estimated construction time is four months; the project should be finished by fall.
Iverson Construction, LLC, of Cottage Grove, will reconstruct underground pipelines for $588,900. E & N Hughes Company, Inc., of Monroe, will reconstruct the sewage pumping station for $265,800 and the street for $338,300.
The council also approved the non-compensated easement agreement for about 2,740 square feet at the south end of Lakeside Drive for the lift station reconstruction.
The project area encompasses all of Lake Drive; the east-west portion of Country Lane; 17th Street between Lake Drive and 22 1/2 Avenue; all of 22 1/2 Avenue; and 16th Street between 22 1/2 Avenue and 23rd Avenue.
Nine companies submitted bids for the three-part project, with bids ranging up to $732,000 for underground pipe reconstruction, $293,000 for the pump station reconstruction and $429,000 for street reconstruction. The other bidding companies were from Freeport, Janesville, Sun Prairie, Cottage Grove, Marshfield and Merrimac.
The Board of Public Works recommended awarding the contracts to the lowest bidders of the base projects. Thompson said he and Town & Country Engineering, Inc., Madison, engineers for the project, had also requested bids for supplemental work. However, they determined the extra work did not justify the added costs.
Preliminary construction costs for the project were estimated at $1.2 million. The water and wastewater portions of the project will be paid from the utilities' funds, with the city picking up the street construction costs. The costs for the street and storm water portions of the project are included in the city's proposed 2012 budget.
The initial scope of the project was to replace an aged lift station and force water main, dating to about mid-1940s, and patch the street in the area.
But last May, the Common Council approved expanding the project because of an increasing number of water main breaks in the area, water lines crossing like spaghetti, and a lack of curbs and gutters to assist in proper storm water run-off. The revised project, which was delayed until 2012, added replacing sanitary sewer, water mains and street surfaces, and installing curbs and gutters in the neighborhood. Sidewalks were not included.
The Common Council approved three parts of the start-up plans Tuesday by awarding construction contracts, approving the certified survey map of the area and approving an easement agreement with Lakeside Heights Inc.
Thompson said he will be going over the construction plan details with the contractors beginning in early April. The estimated construction time is four months; the project should be finished by fall.
Iverson Construction, LLC, of Cottage Grove, will reconstruct underground pipelines for $588,900. E & N Hughes Company, Inc., of Monroe, will reconstruct the sewage pumping station for $265,800 and the street for $338,300.
The council also approved the non-compensated easement agreement for about 2,740 square feet at the south end of Lakeside Drive for the lift station reconstruction.
The project area encompasses all of Lake Drive; the east-west portion of Country Lane; 17th Street between Lake Drive and 22 1/2 Avenue; all of 22 1/2 Avenue; and 16th Street between 22 1/2 Avenue and 23rd Avenue.
Nine companies submitted bids for the three-part project, with bids ranging up to $732,000 for underground pipe reconstruction, $293,000 for the pump station reconstruction and $429,000 for street reconstruction. The other bidding companies were from Freeport, Janesville, Sun Prairie, Cottage Grove, Marshfield and Merrimac.
The Board of Public Works recommended awarding the contracts to the lowest bidders of the base projects. Thompson said he and Town & Country Engineering, Inc., Madison, engineers for the project, had also requested bids for supplemental work. However, they determined the extra work did not justify the added costs.
Preliminary construction costs for the project were estimated at $1.2 million. The water and wastewater portions of the project will be paid from the utilities' funds, with the city picking up the street construction costs. The costs for the street and storm water portions of the project are included in the city's proposed 2012 budget.
The initial scope of the project was to replace an aged lift station and force water main, dating to about mid-1940s, and patch the street in the area.
But last May, the Common Council approved expanding the project because of an increasing number of water main breaks in the area, water lines crossing like spaghetti, and a lack of curbs and gutters to assist in proper storm water run-off. The revised project, which was delayed until 2012, added replacing sanitary sewer, water mains and street surfaces, and installing curbs and gutters in the neighborhood. Sidewalks were not included.