By PHIL SUTIN
The Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 3, 2000 (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)—Trustees of the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District have moved toward spending nearly $3 million on two major sewer projects in west St. Louis County.
They tentatively awarded a contract of $1.6 million to Insituform Technologies USA Inc. of Chesterfield to install a liner in a sewer between Old Olive Street and Wild Horse Creek roads in Chesterfield and Wildwood.
The installation of the liner in 5,900 feet of sanitary sewers 36 inches in diameter is expected to begin in November and be complete next May. Insituform was the lower of two bidders.
The trustees also awarded a $1.4 million contract to Karsten Equipment Co. of St. Ann to install 2,951 feet of sewers 30 inches in diameter southeast of Amiot Drive generally from Creve Coeur Mill Road to Bookbinder Drive. Work is expected to begin in November and be complete by next September.
Karsten was the lowest of three bidders.
The project is the first of three that would see the replacement of 13,000 feet of sewers in that area. Robert Butchko, director of engineering, said the current sewer was overloaded and that sewage backed into some basements in storms.
The cost of the total project could reach $5.35 million.
Trustees also tentatively awarded a contract of $1.2 million to Affhold er Inc. of Chesterfield to repair large sewers in Forest Park. Workers would fill voids, repair cracks and seal leaking joints. They also would apply a liner two inches thick on concrete sewers.
The project involves 10,750 feet of sewers. The round ones are as large as 72 inches in diameter. Others, shaped like a horseshoe, are as tall as 15 feet.
The project is part of work financed by a $5.7 million federal grant and $4.7 million in local money to improve sewers in Forest, Fairgrounds, O'Fallon and Tower Grove parks.
Work is expected to begin in November 2000 and be complete by December 2001. Affholder was the lowest of two bidders.
John Siscel, a trustee from Mehlville, and the staff noted that two committees of the U.S. Senate had added $3 million to an appropriation bill to help pay for a large treatment plant along Fine Road in Oakville. The plant and related facilities are expected to cost $145 million.
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