The City Council voted unanimously Monday to approve a contract with low bidder Contech, Inc., a Broken Arrow-based company, to complete the Candlestick Court Drainage Rehabilitation Project approved by voters in the 2018 General Obligation Bond Election.
Project Engineer Emily Taber said the project is needed to increase capacity of the sewer and minimize leakage in neighborhood yards.
“In early 2019, a Bartlesville resident brought to the City’s attention a sinkhole in his backyard at the downstream end of a City’s storm water sewer line,” Taber said in a memo to the council last week. “The City patched the corrugated metal sewer to mitigate the leakage and began budgeting for a full sewer replacement. Since this time, the sewer has continued to leak in the original location and in neighboring backyards, requiring the implementation of a new storm sewer.”
The project consists of replacing approximately 440 feet of the storm sewer pipe in the backyards of residential properties along Candlestick Court. The total budget for the project is $350,000. Contech’s bid of $162,380 is $187,620 under the available budget. Any remaining available funds will be allocated to additional applicable projects, Taber said.