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Low bid near $100 million for Ashland wastewater upgrade; city must wait on KIA/SRF authorization before awarding contract
Summary
Bids for Ashland’s wastewater treatment upgrade opened July 17 with Judy Construction the apparent low bidder at just under $100 million, but city staff said July 24 the contract cannot be awarded until the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority (KIA) clears the project’s $44 million SRF loan authorization.
A competitive bid opening for Ashland’s wastewater treatment plant upgrades on July 17 returned an apparent low bid from Judy Construction for “just a little under a $100,000,000,” city staff said at the Board of City Commissioners meeting July 24. City and consultant representatives said the project is the final piece needed to comply with the city’s combined sewer overflow (CSO) consent judgment and that state loan and authorization steps remain before construction can begin.
The bid package covers wet-weather storage, headworks upgrades, new clarifiers, a new dewatering building and conversion of existing carousel basins to aeration basins, officials said. A Strand Associates representative told commissioners the design aims to capture “equal to or greater than 93% of all the water coming through…
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