Contracts totaling $763,000 were awarded by the Chickasha Municipal Authority to construct water lines under railroad tracks.
The CMA will pay Matthews Trenching Co. of Oklahoma City $282,950 for emergency repairs on an 18-inch-diameter water line buried under Stillwater Central Railroad tracks at the Chickasha water treatment plant on Genevieve Street. Matthews was the lower of two bidders for the job.
The CMA also will pay Bear Creek Construction of Clinton $480,071 to install a 16-inch-diameter water main enclosed in a 24-inch steel pipe casing underneath the Union Pacific Railroad tracks on Ada Sipuel Avenue.
The new main will connect a deadend line to an existing water line, thereby “looping” the system, Fire Chief Tony Samaniego said. Doing so will increase water pressure “in everything east of Fourth Street,” he said.
Bear Creek Construction was the lowest of seven bidders for the job, records reflect.
The city previously paid Union Pacific $25,790 for an easement to install the water line beneath their railroad tracks.