A planned mile-long forced main sewer line is to connect from Virginia Hills subdivision on Main Street about a mile north to the four-lane U.S. Highway 11W.
This is the Pizza Plus along U.S. Highway 11W in Surgoinsville in an area a proposed one-mile forced-main sewer line would open up to sewer service. Dollar General is just to the right of the pizza eatery
A planned mile-long forced main sewer line is to connect from Virginia Hills subdivision on Main Street about a mile north to the four-lane U.S. Highway 11W.
RICK WAGNER/six rivers media
A planned mile-long forced main sewer line is to connect from Virginia Hills subdivision on Main Street about a mile north to the four-lane U.S. Highway 11W.
By RICK WAGNER/rwagner@sixriversmedia.com
This is the Pizza Plus along U.S. Highway 11W in Surgoinsville in an area a proposed one-mile forced-main sewer line would open up to sewer service. Dollar General is just to the right of the pizza eatery
SURGOINSVILLE — Two bids, one just less than and the other just more than $800,000, came in Monday afternoon for a sewer line extension project in this Hawkins County municipality.
The project would run a forced-main line from the two-lane Main Street area in front of the Virginia Hills subdivision north about a mile through part of that subdivision to the four-lane U.S. Highway 11W.
The two bids received at the 2 p.m. bid opening were $747,600 from Bean Station-based Charlie Smith Plumbing and $807,950 from Columbia, Tennessee-based Mid TN Constructors Inc.
Present at the bid opening were engineer Mark Osborne of The Lane Group, a Southwest Virginia business engineering the project; city Police Chief James Hammonds, de facto overseer of the sewer project; Christina Wichlin of the First Tennessee Development District, which helped apply for the grant through Tennessee that is funding the project; and City Recorder Megan Gentry.
State health officials have already approved plans for the project, which city officials recently said could pick up between six and 15 new customers and open up the four-lane to future business development or possible existing business hook ups to the system.
Gentry said that the engineering group would go over the bids to be sure both are valid and have all the required documentation. The seven-member Board of Mayor and Aldermen is scheduled to have a called meeting 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, to award the bid.
The project was projected to run about $1 million, including the engineering and other miscellaneous costs.
The city’s wastewater system serving about 300 customers is a forced main system, which uses septic tanks to do the first round of treatment.
However, unlike traditional septic systems, instead of going from septic tanks through field beds, the “gray†waste is instead pumped via pressure lines to the sewage treatment plan in the neighboring municipality of Church Hill.
