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Valdosta awards Inner Perimeter utilities contract and approves one‑time tapping fee to recover lift‑station costs
Summary
Council approved a $2.96 million low bid for the Inner Perimeter Road utilities extension with a 10% contingency and adopted a cost‑recovery plan including a one‑time $15 per gallon‑per‑day tapping fee to recoup a $1,275,000 lift‑station cost (capacity 85,000 gpd).
Valdosta’s mayor and council on May 22 approved construction of linear utilities and a new sanitary sewer lift station along Inner Perimeter Road and adopted a cost‑recovery fee to help pay for the lift station and force main.
City engineering staff said two bids were received for the project: RPI for $3,003,641 and JWA for $2,959,737. After verifying…
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