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HDR briefed Brandon council on force‑main cost overruns; firm will absorb one redesign cost
Summary
HDR engineer Bill Moran told the Brandon City Council that four construction issues increased costs on the jointly‑bid Brandon and Sioux Falls force‑main work. HDR/HR Green agreed to absorb the redesign cost for a deeper installation; the council expressed concern about a cathodic protection omission that added roughly $58,000 to Brandon's tab.
Bill Moran, an engineer with HDR and the project designer of record, told the Brandon City Council that the combined Brandon and Sioux Falls force‑main work was bid together at about $20,000,000 and that Brandon’s portion of the project was “just under $3,000,000.”
Moran said four issues discovered after bidding produced significant cost adjustments: a missing table in the bid documents describing the extent of cathodic protection anodes (which HDR estimated would add just under $58,000 to Brandon’s cost), an increase in casing size at a Burlington Northern railroad crossing (raising costs by roughly $76,000), relocation of about 300 feet of an existing Brandon force main uncovered during excavation, and a redesign to…
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