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Columbia County awards $4.02 million contract to install permanent pigging stations on major water lines
Summary
The committee approved a $4,021,444.78 contract with Blair Construction to install permanent pig launch and receiving stations on 30-, 36- and 24-inch lines leaving the Jim Blanchard Water Treatment Plant; work is intended to vastly reduce dirty-water complaints and will require temporary flushing and public notices during construction
Columbia County’s Public Works and Engineering Services Committee on June 24 awarded a $4,021,444.78 contract to Blair Construction to install permanent pig launch and receiving stations on major transmission lines that leave the Jim Blanchard Water Treatment Plant.
County staff said the project is phase 1 of a larger waterline cleaning program. The installed stations will allow the county to insert a sponge “pig” and use pressure…
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