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Show City Awards Contract for Extension Of Sewer"; Plans New Power Facilities Springville city Monday evening awarded the bid for extension of the sewer lines covering all sections sec-tions of the town as part of the sewage disposal pro- gram for which bonds were approved ap-proved the latter part of last month. The low bid for the sewer extension ex-tension was submitted by Thayne Construction Co. of Salt Lake City for $203,703.60 "with an alternate bid of $228,205.16. The work is to get started as soon as the engineer draws up the contract and preliminary details are worked out, possibly within the next ten days or two weeks, City Recorder Lloyd Ashcraft reported. Included in the work is 29.000 cubic yds. of main line excavation; 15,000 cubic yards of service line excavation and the laying of 3,562 linear 18-foot sewer pipe as well as 1020 linear feet of 12-inch pip; 9,000 linear feet of 10-inch; 23,000 of eight-inch and 26,000 linear feet of eight-inch pipe; also the installation instal-lation of a lift station west of Park RoShe to pump sewage back to the disposal plant. The work is to be completed in 200 working days from the time it is begun. Each of the five bids submitted gave an alternate bid to take care of the different kinds of pipe which will be used in different sections of town, so that the actual cost of the job will be a figure between the main bid and the alternate bid, the recorder stated. Ten sets of plans for the job were out but only five bids were submitted by the deadline Monday , evening and two others came in late. W. W. Clyde and Co., of Spring- ville submitted the second lowest bid of $233,750 with an alternate of $261,096.60. State Wide Heating and Plumbing of Murray submitted submit-ted a bid of $249,361.65 with alternate al-ternate of $279,605.10. Bryan, Ewell and Ashley of Salt Lake City bid $253,442.36 and an alternate of $288,442.36 and Hilton and Carr of Ogden submitted a bid of $300,-304.31 $300,-304.31 with an alternate of $326,-327.49. $326,-327.49. Due to the low water resulting from the dry summer, now is probably prob-ably the most opportune time to get the sewage extension work underway, it was stated by officials. offic-ials. The job is expected to he completed com-pleted before the high water season sea-son in the spring. The water table in the vicinity is lower at the present pres-ent time than in the past few years it is reported. Special Meeting To take up further plans in regards re-gards to the sewage disposal program, pro-gram, the city council will hold a special meeting at 9 a.m., Monday, Mon-day, November 22, with a rcpre-' rcpre-' sentative of the Edward L. Burton finance company to decide how the sewer bonds will be handled; t whether the city will have the company sell them or whether they will be put on the open market for bid. Other business taken up at this week's council meeting concerned j the problem of sufficient power to supply the needs of the city. It was pointed out by Councilman Wm. Ruff that increased use of electrical electri-cal appliances together with the , increased population of the city poses a problem of supplying sufficient suf-ficient power and that something must be done to increase power facilities. He suggested that the city consider the building of a sub-station. The city will have a utility replacement fund of approximately approx-imately $36,000 by the first of the year and it was decided at the council meeting to plan now for the construction of a substation possibly on the west side of town and to include the cost of such a project in next year's budget. Healing Flro Station At the suggestion of Councilman Paul Haymond, it was decided by the council to convert the heating heat-ing system at the fire station to gas, after it was pointed out that the present cost of heating with coke was expensive as well as im-pracitcal. im-pracitcal. Bids for the job are to be called for as soon as they can be drawn up. Allan Danielson representing the City Safety Council met with the city councilmen to determine what had been done regarding a traffic light at the intersection of Main and Second South. He was told that the city had received no answer ans-wer to a letter written by Recorded Lloyd Ashcraft to the state road commission concerning the matter but that Councilman Harold Whiting Whit-ing had made personal contact with the road commission office and officials had promised to make another survey. |