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Council awards $4.43 million sewer trunk contract and approves pipe purchase to avoid canal delay
Summary
Los Banos City Council approved a $4,432,440 construction contract with Rolfe Construction Inc. to replace the final mile of the city’s sewer trunk line and authorized an advance purchase order of $175,269 for reinforced concrete pipe to allow the contractor to complete a siphon under the San Luis Canal during a scheduled canal drain period.
The Los Banos City Council on May 7 awarded a construction contract of $4,432,440 to Rolfe Construction Inc. for the final-mile sewer trunk line replacement and authorized a separate purchase order of $175,269 to procure reinforced concrete pipe needed to build a siphon under the San Luis Canal.
Why it matters: City engineers said the existing sewer trunk line is at capacity and deteriorating; replacing it will increase wastewater conveyance capacity to the treatment plant and reduce the risk of failures. Purchasing the pipe in advance was presented as a time‑and‑cost‑saving step because the…
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