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City awards $5.375M contract for Lake Michigan Filtration Plant carbon-feed and unloading upgrades
Summary
The community development committee approved a contract award to Earhart for approximately $5.375 million to automate carbon feed and add an underground containment tank at the Lake Michigan filtration plant; construction is budgeted for fiscal 2027.
The community development committee voted to award a contract to Earhart for improvements at the Lake Michigan Filtration Plant to automate carbon feed and provide a new chemical unloading containment tank.
“Current carbon feed system is a manual operation that requires bags to be transported to the Third Floor,” said Mister Berkman, a city presenter. The project will relocate and automate that process so carbon can be unloaded directly from a semi-truck to tanks, staff said, improving working conditions for plant staff and modernizing the process.
Earhart submitted the low bid at $5,375,000, which the presenter said was below the engineer’s estimate near $7,600,000. Staff said the water system has funding budgeted for this work in fiscal year 2027 and that construction would not begin until July 2026.
The committee approved the award and the accompanying not-to-exceed total of $7,761,835, which covers contingencies and related fees and will be charged to the water system fund, according to staff remarks in the meeting.
