CHICKASHA – The City Council paid more than $1.3 million in invoices recently for road and street paving and for water system improvements. A contract to prevent flooding in the basement at City Hall also was approved.
Marsau Enterprises of Enid was paid $614,032 for constructing new water mains along Missouri Avenue from Fourth Street to Third Street, along Virginia Avenue from Shepherd Street to Henderson Street, and along Henderson from Virginia one-half block north.
Marsau also installed 10 new fire hydrants and valves on existing water mains on First Street, Second Street, and Shepherd Street from Alabama Avenue to Missouri Avenue.
Grady County District 2 was reimbursed $415,071 for applying 2-inch-thick asphalt paving on 29th Street from Grand Avenue to Highway 62, and for paving North Fourth Street with six inches of asphalt from the bridge north to the second set of railroad tracks.
District 2 also was paid $340,884 for paving 29th Street from Grand Avenue to Country Club Road, applying a 2-inch asphalt overlay on 16th Street from Country Club Road to Pikes Peak Road, and a 2-inch layer of asphalt on Cottonwood Road from Highway 81 east to the Union Pacific railroad tracks.
In a related matter, the City Council awarded a $170,000 contract to C4L of Edmond on Aug. 5 to repair a washout on Cottonwood Road east of the Union Pacific railroad tracks. A steel-reinforced concrete box bridge will be installed at the site, Public Works Director Jim Crosby said. And then, probably next spring, Crosby said, Cottonwood Road will be resurfaced with asphalt from the tracks east to Sooner Road.
The council also awarded an $82,299 contract to Groundworks, of Stillwater, to prevent flooding in the basement at City Hall. The project will entail installation of a drainage system, a basement gutter, and three sump pumps, and spreading WallSeal on basement walls “to prevent water vapor and moisture intrusion…” “I’ve seen up to four inches of standing water in the basement, along with mold,” Cosby said. The water infiltration problem “has been ignored for a long time.”