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Valdosta approves $133,000 design contract to address Sugar Creek sanitary sewer breach
Summary
Mayor and council approved a $133,000 professional design and railroad-permitting contract with LEA to repair a breached sanitary sewer main alongside Sugar Creek and to design a reroute under Norfolk Southern right of way.
Valdosta Mayor and council voted to approve a $133,000 professional design services agreement with LEA to survey, design and obtain railroad permitting to repair a breach in the city sanitary sewer line along Sugar Creek.
The contract covers surveying, design work and applications needed to seek occupancy and permitting from Norfolk Southern for a proposed reroute of the sewer main away from the stream-side bank. Jake, the city's chief engineer, told the council the work follows a recent rainfall-driven failure that exposed and displaced multiple pipeline segments and caused sewage to discharge into the stream. "We plug the manhole upstream and downstream of the break," Jake said, describing the temporary pressurized bypass system currently in place. "We engage with the contractor to perform fusing work necessary to create a…
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