City Opens Bid for Gravity Sewer Line Along Hopkins Creek

Three vendors returned bids for the City’s Gravity Sewer Project along Hopkins Creek. The base bids, opened at 2 p.m. on May 23, 2013, ranged from $427,571 to $474,446.

Generally, the project is for approximately 2,722 linear feet of 8-inch and 12-inch gravity sewer from Lakeside Drive to the Hopkins Creek pump station on Stanley Road. The project includes manholes and a rock bore to the pump station wet well.

This project will be paid for by a combination of funding from SPLOST and the City’s general fund. The benefits of this project include bringing sewer to the Winder Highway corridor in this first phase. Providing sewer in this area will strengthen the City’s position that GA EPD should  delist the one-half mile of Hopkins Creek, that runs through the City, from the 303(d) Impaired Waterway list. Water testing for the past three years shows no contamination above EPD limits. The City spends about $20,000 per year for water testing of Hopkins Creek.

Additionally, Gwinnett County will be able in the future to take a number of pump stations off-line and convert to gravity flow. This will result in a cost-savings to Gwinnett County. For that reason the City is working with Gwinnett County on an alternate to increase the sewer line to an 18-inch capacity along the majority of the 2,722 feet of the project.

Strickland & Sons Pipeline, Inc. is the apparent low bidder.

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