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Commission approves $1.44 million change order for Oak Grove emergency sewer repairs
Summary
The Fall River City Civil Commission voted to approve a $1,438,000 change order to Bisco for emergency sewer replacement on Oak Grove Avenue, bringing total related change orders to roughly $3.05 million and prompting commissioners to press for more preconstruction engineering on future streets.
Fall River City Civil Commission members voted on June 3 to approve change order No. 5 for emergency sewer work on Oak Grove Avenue, awarding roughly $1,438,000 to Bisco Contracting to complete unanticipated sewer replacement and related restoration.
The change order covers remediation discovered during water-main and roadway reconstruction where deep, degraded sewer pipe (14–24 feet deep in places) was discovered after pavement was ground for reconstruction. Paul (staff member) told the commission the trench conditions included ledge, voids under pavement and sections of pipe that had partially collapsed or cracked. "As we ran down the line, the pipe looked like these sections — partially collapsed and egg-shaped," Paul said during his presentation.
The action follows an earlier sewer-related change order of about $2,157,000; Paul said the combination of…
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