The City of North Battleford awarded more contracts for wastewater treatment plant biosolids and overflow surge ponds at Monday's meeting.
The first contract has been awarded to Layfield Canada Ltd. in the amount of $468,540 to supply geo-membrane liners and defined sump floating cover, all taxes included.
The second contract was for earthwork for the overflow surge pond and the bio-solids storage lagoon. That was awarded to Acadia Construction for the amount of $1,751,023, all taxes included, with the combined contract total coming to $2,219,563, all taxes included.
City council budgeted $5 million for the new bio-solids processing system and the surge pond, a project that includes retrofitting the wastewater treatment plant with a Lystek sludge processing system and construction of a biosolids storage lagoon.
According to numbers presented Monday by City Director of Public Works Stewart Schafer, the total construction cost for the bio-solids project, including the Lystek reactor for the bio-solids, engineering for the storage pond, construction of the storage pond, the storage pond liner and miscellaneous items comes to $4,043,886. That is about $1,043,886 over the $3 million in the capital budget.
However, the cost of the surge pond construction surge pond liner and construction of the surge pond came to a total of $1,490,025, which is under budget by $509,975.
The overall cost exceeds the budget by $533,911, though Director of Finance David Gillan did point out that the GST was completely recoverable, which means the budget hit will actually be closer to $300,000. He also said the amount was well within the City's borrowing limits.
