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The company was incorporated in 1984 and specialises in smaller municipal water and wastewater collection and distribution systems according to Blake Franklin, president. The company performs around four to fire similar contracts each year.
Mayor Eugene Leggett said he is “confident” that this set of bids for the treatment plant will meet the Town's requirements, and that a contractor will be selected in time to break ground on the new plant before the end of the year.
This would be the culmination of over 18 years of attempts to finally address the problem of septic systems and dramfields failing within the town and potentially contaminating ground water and streams
After the initial set of bids came in well over budget, changes were made to the treatment plant requirements to facilitate lower bids, according to Leggett. The main change, he said, was changing from precast concrete tanks to cast-in-place concrete tanks. Another significant change was requiring competitive bids for equipment.
Phase I of the system will encompass the town proper and will include 103 hook ups to the
See PLANT, Page A9
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