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Mooresville staff recommend awarding $7.463 million contract for Shepherds elevated water tank
Summary
Town staff told councilmembers that the Shepherds elevated storage tank — a proposed 1,000,000-gallon composite tank at the Shepherds Fire Rescue site — has a low bid of $7,463,000 and would be funded with system development fees; council was briefed but no final vote is recorded in the pre‑agenda meeting transcript.
Mooresville staff on April 30 briefed the Town Council on a request to adopt a resolution awarding a construction contract not to exceed $7,463,000 for an elevated storage tank at the Shepherds Fire Rescue property.
The tank is proposed as a composite elevated storage unit with a concrete pedestal (flute) and a steel bowl and would provide roughly 1,000,000 gallons of storage, Public Utilities staff said. "This is the elevated storage tank on the Shepherd's Fire Rescue property that we've been talking about for quite some time," the presenter said during the briefing.
The project team received three bids, the presenter said, and the low bid was from Landmark 1 LP at $7,463,000. Staff noted that only about four contractors nationwide build this type of tank and that the town's bids were within 7 percent of one another amid current market volatility in steel pricing. "Our low bid was $7,463,000," the presenter said.
Staff described the construction approach and the timeline. The presenter said the typical contractor sequencing uses separate crews (one for foundation work and one for steel welding) that rotate through the site; the total contract time cited was 540 days. Staff also described quality-control work: Black & Veatch would provide the engineer support and manage shop drawings and inspections, while day-to-day special inspections (weld inspections, compaction testing, concrete testing) would be handled under a separate contract with Gavilan Dorn, an on-call engineering consultant, to reduce overhead costs.
On funding, staff said the work would be paid from system development fees rather than existing rate revenue. "Our funding for this is system development fees. This tank would not be required but for the growth that we have been experiencing and expect to experience in the future," the presenter said.
Councilmembers asked operational questions and discussed aesthetic options. One member asked whether the town had considered painted designs or advertising on the tank; staff said painting is possible but requires extra maintenance and that the Ray City tank advertising arrangement involved a separate agreement with the Convention & Visitors Bureau. "I had joked that we could put flames on it since it's right there at the fire station," a councilmember said in jest.
No formal vote on the award appears in the pre‑agenda transcript. The staff presentation closed with a note that the item would come forward for action as part of the public utilities resolution to award the contract.
What happens next: staff said they would bring the formal resolution to the council for consideration; the transcript does not record a final decision at this briefing.
