The City Council awarded two water line replacement projects in northwest and southwest Lawton that will cost $14 million.
Approximately 19,000 linear feet of 4-, 6-, 8- and 12-inch aged, high-maintenance lines south of Lincoln Avenue and north of Cache Road, between Sheridan Road and Fort Sill Boulevard, will be replaced.
A $7,649,317 contract on the project was awarded to Southwest Water Works of Oklahoma City, the lower of two bidders for the job.
Another contract will feature replacement of 18,000 linear feet of 8- and 12-inch water mains south of Gore Boulevard between Southwest 38th and Southwest 52nd streets.
The project also will include replacement of 52 fire hydrants. Those fire plugs are “the same age as the water mains and valves and still work, but have reached their useful life and could fail just as the new water lines are being replaced,” Caitlin Gatlin, the city’s communications manager, told Southwest Ledger.
A $6,425,000 contract on that job was awarded to Stampede Utility Construction from Decatur, Texas.
Both projects will be financed from a $29 million DrinkingWater State Revolving Fund loan that closed in July, Public Utilities Director Rusty Whisenhunt indicated.
The seven miles of new water lines are among the 26 miles of new water lines in Lawton already built, under construction, or in the planning and design stage, according to Mayor Stan Booker.