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Montrose Council approves roughly $4.3 million contract to extend sanitary sewer on northeast side
Summary
The council awarded a construction contract for the CIP3 sanitary sewer extension—presented as roughly $4.3 million—to Mountain Valley Contracting and a $157,100 engineering/survey contract to Delmont Consultants, citing capacity limits on the existing system and construction through next summer.
The Montrose City Council on June 16 approved a construction contract to extend and upsize a sanitary sewer main on the northeast side of town, a project officials said is needed because the existing line is at capacity.
Public Works Director Jim Shide told the council the project was identified in the city’s capital improvement plan and was designed and bid earlier this spring. "This portion of the system is at capacity now and is limiting what is available to add to the system as far as development," Shide said, explaining the project would relieve that constraint.
Shide said bids were opened in May and recommended the award. Council approved a construction contract to Mountain Valley Contracting for the project — described in the meeting as roughly $4.3 million — and a survey and engineering support contract to Delmont Consultants for $157,100. Shide said the work would begin this year and likely finish in the summer of 2027, with a winter pause expected.
From a financing standpoint, Shide said the work had been anticipated and included in revenue bonds taken for the wastewater treatment plant project; approximately $6.5 million had been set aside for the broader scope at the time bonds were issued, and the present award was substantially under that budgeted amount.
Council members asked for the project map and alignment; staff pointed to packet documents showing the work along North San Juan and East Maine, adjacent to the event center and behind a Shell station. Shide warned there would be lane closures and some nighttime work but said traffic impacts should be relatively limited.
The council moved and seconded the measure and the motion passed without a roll-call tally recorded on the transcript. The project will proceed and staff expect to return with scheduling and traffic-impact details as construction approaches.
