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Council awards utility relocation contract in advance of Lapham Street bridge replacement
Summary
The Common Council awarded a contract to relocate utilities ahead of an anticipated bridge replacement on Lapham Street, selecting a low bidder and approving a budget amendment to fund the work shared across utilities.
The Oconomowoc Common Council on March 18 awarded a contract to relocate utilities ahead of a planned Lapham Street bridge replacement scheduled for fall 2025 into 2026.
Public Works staff reported that the relocation work will allow crews to remove and replace the existing bridge while utilities currently attached to or near the structure are moved out of the construction footprint. Staff said the relocation will use directional boring to place new conduits and pull multiple utility lines under the river in a single operation.
“We reached out to the community with a design that would incorporate a construction contractor to bore underneath the river...and we got 3 contractors to bid on that,” Staff member Jason Herzog told the council. Herzog said Advanced Construction was the low bidder at $382,482 and that references checked out favorably. The work package includes sanitary force main, electric and water relocations; the electric utility is contributing a roughly 50 percent share of certain costs, staff said.
The council approved the contract award and an associated budget amendment on a roll call vote. Staff said the relocation must be completed before the bridge replacement can proceed; the overall bridge replacement is federally funded and will be overseen by the state with a local government agreement.
Herzog said some of the budget amendment funds will pay the contractor while other amounts will cover city staff time and work coordination with the electric and wastewater utilities. Council members who serve on the utilities committee said they had discussed the item in committee and heard assurances about contractor qualifications and project sequencing.
The council’s action will allow staff to finalize scheduling and begin preconstruction coordination with the contractor and utility partners; the bridge replacement work itself will follow later in 2025 and into 2026 under the multi‑party funding and permitting arrangement.
