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Temple Terrace awards $1.71 million contract to rehab Chinaberry booster pump station
Summary
The City of Temple Terrace voted to award a $1,709,620 contract to CEC Motor and Utility Services LLC to rehabilitate the Chinaberry Booster Pump Station, funding the gap with water impact fees after bids came in far above earlier cost estimates.
Utilities staff told the City of Temple Terrace City Council on Nov. 21 that the Chinaberry Booster Pump Station needs a full rehabilitation and recommended awarding a $1,709,620 contract to CEC Motor and Utility Services LLC.
The Chinaberry station, built in phases beginning in the 1960s and substantially rebuilt around 1984, serves northeast portions of the city and supplements system capacity during morning and evening peak demand, Utilities Director Troy Tinch said. "So we've got about 4 years of service life out of that system and it's so it's well beyond that design life," Tinch said.
Staff presented a design package that increases pump size from 50 to 75 horsepower, replaces controls with variable-frequency drives, adds a climate-controlled control building, repaints tank and station, and installs a self-contained, wind-rated generator. Tinch told council…
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