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By NATALIE JOHNSON
The city of Shelton is planning
on continuing efforts to strength-
en its sewer system this summer
with sewer Basin- 5. On Monday,
the city commission reviewed a
proposal to award the bid for con-
struction on the project.
"This is a sewer line leak repair
project for lack of a better term,"
said city engineer Mike Michael.
Monday the city commission
considered awarding the bid for
the project to Buno Construction
out of Snohomish.
The Basin 5 project is specifi-
cally designed to prevent the pos-
sibility of raw sewage leaking into
homes, groundwater, other water
bodies, or the city water supply
and to prevent ground water get-
ting into sewer lines.
The project includes more than
39,000 feet of pipeline that will be
replaced over 14 months. Basin 5
is mainly in the Hillcrest neigh-
borhood. '
Although engineers originally
estimated the cost for the entire
Journal file photo
City Engineer Mike Michael gives a tour of the city's rebuilt Wastewater Treatment
Plant on Earth Day in April. The plant, one of the city's many new sewer projects, was
about 70 percent done at t he time.
project could range from $11.8 low end of the estimate, low bidder did have a mathemati-
million to $13.5 million, the five "After preliminary review and cal error and after correction, the
bids,the city received all came in math check of the low two bids as final bid range was $9.6 million to
considerably lower than even the we usually do, we found that the $10.5 million," Michael said.
Buno Construction LLC out of
Snohomish, the low bidder at $9.6
million, has applied for other city
projects in the past.
"This number is about $2.2 mil-
lion dollars before the bottom of
our engineer's estimate range,"
Michael said, "We have funding to
cover the full $13 million dollars
of the range between the various
funding sources that we have."
About five years ago, the city
embarked on its plan to revamp
the sewer system, including com-
pletely redoing the wastewater
treatment plant, adding a waste-
water reclamation plant, adding
or rebuilding several pump sta-
tions and sewer lines and address-
ing leaks in the various sewer ba-
sins within the city.
The various sewer projects un-
der this umbrella have received
funding from the United States
Department of Agriculture Rural
Development Fund (USDA/RD).
City staff advised the commis-
sion to approve the bid. The com-
mission should vote on the bid at a
later date.
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also toured the districtoffice on July 1. Pioneer's
and met with students and current superintendent,
community members. Dan Winter, meanwhile, is
Out of those sessions, headed to Montesano where
Brewer emerged as a clear he will run the K-12 school
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