Alamogordo presents multi‑million-dollar progress on water, roads, fire station and landfill projects
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Summary
City staff reported completed 2025 projects and gave status updates and budgets for major ongoing works — including water-line replacements, reservoir cover and tank rehabs, a $11.2 million Fire Station 2 rebuild, a $5.6 million 10th Street repair and an expedited landfill cell — and answered commissioner questions about scheduling and supply delays.
City staff gave a quarterly projects update Feb. 24 that listed completed 2025 work and provided status reports (schedules, budgets and contractors) for major construction currently underway across Alamogordo.
Senior Project Manager Justin Boyle said the city will start presenting schedule-percent-complete figures using Procore and summarized recent completions: Monte Vista Cemetery wall ($247,000), public-works basin sediment removal ($368,000), Hubbard Bridge ($1.8 million), downtown water sewer replacement work (New York WSRP, ~$1.8 million), Lower Heights Tank ($2.2 million) and a 10th Street concrete repair (~$5.587 million). He also listed smaller capital items at the zoo and golf-course irrigation.
Boyle walked the commission through current construction and near-term projects: a Lower/Upper Heights 16‑inch water-line replacement (awarded at roughly $987,063 to Crosstown Construction, substantial completion 2026), the La Luz South Reservoir cover and tower replacement (awarded ~$4.586M to KENG, with a completion target ahead of schedule), White Sands Boulevard / Fairgrounds traffic-signal work (awarded ~$2.203M to Rock Canyon Construction, potential delay tied to arm-bar deliveries) and a $1.998M cell expansion at the Otero Greentree regional landfill that was expedited because of higher-than-expected debris inflows.
On the New York WSRP the project team described unexpected buried utilities that led to additional work when crews began digging; Dave Nunley explained the South Reservoir had an aging metallocene cover that had essentially reached end of life and the east reservoir had been repaired previously after a tear. "The concrete has deteriorated, and it was well past its age," Nunley said of the tower at one reservoir.
Commissioners asked about project coordination, pedestrian signage, traffic pattern public-service announcements and the process to accept new subdivision roads into city ownership. Boyle and other staff described steps to coordinate with DOT and private developers, the use of on-call traffic and geotechnical engineers to respond to field surprises, and a planned comprehensive pavement and street maintenance plan being developed with Lee Engineering (Las Cruces).
Other large projects discussed included Fire Station 2 (awarded at ~$11.229M, work scheduled to finish summer 2026), rehabilitation of multiple water tanks (a $7.09M contract with staged tank work), the auditorium project nearing 90% drawings and other grant-funded site work. Staff also said the zoo's improvements and the Bonito Lake project to restore trails and ADA access are in active phases.
Public questions and commissioner exchanges emphasized the need for clear public communication on traffic and intersection changes, better project phasing to avoid rework, and transparency on contracts and change orders. Staff said they will provide more public notices and continue lessons-learned reviews after each project.
