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New water director flags quality-control and schedule concerns at treatment-plant project
Summary
Carrie Aiken, the city's water director, reported extensive quality-control and supervision problems at the water treatment plant construction site after a site review with Bowen Engineering, said a number of installations require rework, and expects a contractor response and a punch list within roughly 10 business days.
Oak Ridge's recently appointed water department director, Carrie Aiken, told the City Council that construction quality and supervision issues at the city's new water treatment plant are causing schedule risk and will require corrective work.
Aiken said she asked Doug Bowen of Bowen Engineering to tour the site; the two- and four-person site review that day examined intake equipment, piping and membrane train installations and identified items that had not been done to plan. "There was a lack of supervision and just quality…
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