Committee approves $51,500 city share for airport sewer extension to serve new hangar

The Tuscaloosa City Public Works Committee authorized a reimbursable agreement with BBC Global to construct a sewer service extension to a new hangar site on the east side of the municipal airport.

Staff described the proposed hangar as roughly 10,000 square feet and said BBC Global offered to help install a sewer line that would tie the new property into existing airport infrastructure instead of requiring individual septic systems. Staff presented a preliminary total cost for the line of about $88,150 and said a revised proposal reduced the city—s share to $51,500. Committee members were told the green lines on the project map represent the portion the city would install; the blue lines show existing services to current hangars.

Staff said the plan reuses existing conduit and places a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe inside an existing ductile-iron conduit to create a low-pressure sewer line that can be pushed under the runway without tearing up pavement, which staff said saves considerable cost. They said the installed low-pressure system would be limited by grinder pump capacity to about nine pumps and could initially support roughly five to nine hangars depending on final configuration.

Staff said a lease for the hangar site has already been executed. The city plans to collect a tie-on fee for future hangars that connect to the new service. Committee members moved, seconded and approved the reimbursable agreement by voice vote.