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La Porte board approves change order for Indiana Avenue sewer and water work; wastewater portion $151,586
Summary
The board approved a change order to Indiana Avenue construction, adding a $151,585.69 wastewater connection and $10,086.10 for water work to improve storm connections and enable future sewer separation; members said the project remains under original budget estimates.
The La Porte Board of Public Works and Safety approved a change order Wednesday for Indiana Avenue construction that adds new storm and utility connections and shifts a problematic connection away from an older brick alley sewer.
Jerry Jackson, wastewater, said the largest item in the change order is a $151,585.69 wastewater expenditure — about 7.7% of the original contract — for deeper connections and to take storm flow out of a failing brick sewer and tie it into a larger concrete sewer. The water portion of the change order is $10,086.10 (about 3.2% of the contract) to reconfigure connections at Kingsbury Avenue to allow a future extension.
Why it matters: The change order addresses a recently discovered deficient storm connection and a collapsed brick sewer south of Lincoln Way. Jackson said moving the storm connection to the larger Lincoln Way concrete sewer is a more appropriate long-term solution.
Board members noted the project remains below the original estimated budget. Jackson said the city had budgeted $2.3 million and that bids had come in near $1.9 million; with this change order, the project cost remains several hundred thousand dollars under the original estimate. Board members also discussed construction schedule items and groundwater/dewatering issues that had slowed progress.
The board approved the change order after engineering and INDOT review, and members said the work will support future sewer-separation projects and safer stormwater routing.
