Item 13 review 26-1 and 26-2 utility extension projects to provide sewer and water service
to Canellsville in the town of Port Washington.
Roger.
All right, well, I'll turn this over to Aaron from Kapoor, but essentially he's going to
give us an overview of our next sewer and water project that we have coming in and sort
of our impacts that's going to create with the area.
Good evening, everybody.
We'll bring this up there.
Thanks, Roger.
Again, I'm Aaron Groh with Kapoor and Associates.
We've been here a few times talking in front of the group here tonight, so thanks for
having me.
So right now we are complete with our design plans for the next phase to extend utilities
to the north for Canellsville and also to serve the vantage site.
Those two projects are 26-1 and 26-2.
Two of the key parts of this are that we still are in discussions with PSC for approval.
Water main PSC governs water main and specifically if there is water main that is at least three
miles of length or longer, which this project has.
So we are still in the process of we've had a couple of meetings with PSC.
We've had several clarifications, questions and answers going back and forth with them.
And we have not gotten all the answers that we need to verify that we can move forward
with this project and submit to PSC accordingly.
So that is one item that is going to drive the schedule for these projects.
So that being said, this is a very similar presentation to what I provided before a month
or two ago.
So this first project is 26-1, there is 10,000 feet of water main and 5,000 feet of sanitary
sewer.
It's a long, highland drive, main branch road, and then on Conantrunk Highway KW up to where
the boat storage facility is.
Also will provide sanitary and water laterals to Canalesville per the agreement between
the city and the town.
And we are estimating at just under $8 million for the construction costs and you add 20%
engineering contingencies in there, it brings it up to about 9.4.
Our schedule still is hoping to shoot for late June or early July with construction considering
in late July or early August.
As I just mentioned before with these projects, PSC permitting is still an item that is driving
the schedule and until we can identify the permit process with PSC, we are in a holding
pattern until we get that approval.
Travel control detours routes is another item as far as how we broke this project into
different phases.
And then we also want to identify attractive sized projects to bring a lot of bidders to
these two jobs, 26.1 and 26.2.
We don't want to put out such a large project that you only have two or three bidders.
We want to have normal size contracts that we think we can attract 10 or 15 different
contractors that can put out really competitive prices.
So 26.2, very similar.
So this is 11,000 feet of water main.
It's only water main and it's on KW Lake Drive from the storage facility north to Lake
Drive and then east to the main entrance to the vantage project.
Also add water main services along KW and to other other parcels that are within the town.
This will provide secondary fee to redundancy.
So what Roger was just speaking about before redundancy is a key component to engineering.
And this is one of the main reasons why we want to provide the water to the north side
of the project site for redundancy reasons.
This estimated cost is $5 billion for construction.
But if you add engineering contingencies, about 20% brings us up to just over $6 million.
This schedule similar June or early July to bid out and advertise with construction.
This section is just water main and this is completely driven by the schedule of PSC.
So instead of maybe starting this in July or August, we don't expect this project to
start until at least October.
Water main we would expect to be installed by directional drilling.
The PSC permits as I mentioned before.
The reason why we want to add directional drilling as a construction method is because
it's quicker and it will also reduce the impacts to traffic in the businesses and the properties
that are along KW.
It's smaller work zones and just be easier for traffic to get around while they're working
within KW.
So this is a layout of proposed detours and work zones in the first phase of 26-1.
So this is when we start up, we expect to start up in the intersection of H and Minker
Anch Road.
We'll have to shift traffic onto counter-chunk highway H and just southbound lanes only.
So only in one direction.
A detour will also go on to counter-chunk B to H and also on A to LL.
We've met with the county city staff and Kapoor.
We met with the county to make sure that they were in agreement with these routes and these
routes they concurred with us to do this.
One of the things that we discussed as well, could we maybe have a detour route on B up
to A on the left side instead of having the yellow route that we show which is on
LL and counter-chunk highway A.
We have to have the detour on LL and A for numerous phases and therefore we felt just
from a consistency standpoint for those that are driving out here, if we change the detours
back and forth and back and forth, it's going to get confusing.
So even though maybe it'll be a little bit longer detour route, we just feel it's better
for those that live in the area so it's a consistent detour route.
The roads that are under construction will remain open to local traffic only, so that's
key.
So we still can get on the construction routes when we're working on Highland or Mink Ranch
or KW.
And then on this first little section here on Mink Ranch and I-43 crossing, we'll also
be working on extending our concrete and asphalt pavement that's going to be coordinated with
the next phase.
You can go to the next sheet, please, thank you.
So this is on Highland Drive, so we will be connecting to where we ended the current construction
project that just finished, which is just on Highland Drive, just on the north side
of the bridge on Highland Lane.
So we'll connect to that point and then extend to Kinda Trunk Highway H and the intersection
of KW.
We'll stop just short of KW and H to allow that section of road to remain open to traffic.
We also want to make sure with the phasing of this that we are cognizant of the garbage
drop-off for the town and then also for the local restaurant that's right at this intersection.
So that's one of the reasons why we wanted to stay short of KW and H to be able to allow
traffic to get in and out of those areas during construction.
And then this detour would be route through County Trunk Highway LL and A.
Next phase, so this is the third and final phase for 26-1.
So this is extending up KW and also a little bit of an extension on County Trunk Highway
H. So we're completing everything else that's within that, within the project scope, extending
up to the boat storage facility.
And then we also will extend several hundred feet up County Trunk Highway H this season.
So then the following season, if you remember our five-year outlook, County Trunk Highway
H, H is anticipated to be constructed in 2028 and we want to be completely out of that busy
intersection with County Trunk H and County Trunk KW.
We don't want to be in that intersection two years in a row.
So we plan extending about two or three hundred feet north into H, get outside of the concrete
pavement, the concrete pavement where that ends is where we end our project.
The northbound lanes of County Trunk Highway H would be closed during this process.
And so anybody that's coming from the city proper, running up, will be asked to detour
on County Trunk Highway LL to A. Again, the roads under construction remain open to local
traffic and then we also want to make sure that we're cognizant of the restaurant that's
on the intersection for this third phase of 26-1.
Lastly, it's 26-2.
So this is just the water main only in County Trunk Highway KW and on Lake Drive.
The detour is on LL and A to the right and the yellow that you see.
As I noted before, we expect to have this directionally drilled and then wherever there's hydrants,
which is about every 600 feet, there'll be an open cut within the road.
So we expect to have the majority of the road to remain as is.
As they install the water main, they'll cut open a location for where the hydrant is and
then continue on.
So we're trying to make sure that we minimize the amount of impacts to the residents and
the business owners along KW.
We're also specifying that when one project is going on 26-1, we can't be working in
KW in 26-2.
So our specifications are written in such a way that one job needs to finish before the
other one starts.
So we don't have two contractors working on KW at the same time.
Again, we're trying to be as cognizant as we can to the business owners and the residents
along KW.
Just a question.
Wouldn't it be preferable, though, to have them both working simultaneously so we can
have a shorter closure on KW?
Well, part of that also is driven by the PSC approval, which we expect that we won't
get on this leg on 26-2, and therefore, this section likely won't start up until October.
So part of that has to do with that plays a role into this, too.
Yeah, I hate to see us close it, open it for a week, and then close it again.
Understood.
Yes.
We'll be very cognizant of working with both continents, assuming that we have two different
contractors that win these awards.
We'll work with them to try and make sure that we minimize those changes.
There's some things that you can't avoid, but point taken.
Also, we identified that during warm weather, we'll use asphalt patching, and if it gets
to cold weather, we're going to require them to use concrete patching.
One other thing is that we're specifying to minimize potential risk or overruns to the
city.
We're anticipating that all this work would occur.
26-1 would occur yet all in the 26, year of 26, 26-2 may trickle into the year 2027.
If that's the case, what our specifications are saying is that contractor, we don't expect
for them to work from the timeframe of December 15th to March 15th.
And if they so choose, they can do so at their own risk and at no additional cost to
the city.
Therefore, no change orders for cold weather applications or things of that nature.
So we expect them no work from December to March, however, we would allow them if they
wanted to do it, again, at no additional cost to the city.
And I think that is the final sheet.
Any questions?
Yeah, on the detour running on LL as opposed to B. Do we have any concern about, especially
when Lake and LL will be closed for that project, that all of the construction traffic
is going to also be accessing the site from East off of LL?
Yes.
Would it in that case be better to have that detour on B so that it is not sharing the
roads with all the construction traffic?
Other than, of course, when you get up to A, you're going to have an intersection with
construction traffic.
There are multiple reasons why we chose that.
We also were looking at, you know, there's a tight angle on B and H as well.
And if you if you ran a ran the detour with some of these tight angles, we also a consideration
of when the county part of this work is county work where the detours need to be done through
county roads, right?
So you will a road might be a good application to have a detour, but we really can't if we
have some of the county projects going on where the county is going to be paving on
some of this.
So those all played into it.
We also coordinated these with the vantage design team, specifically Graf and they're
the ones that I looked at improving all the intersections and coordinating the traffic
signals, the temporary traffic signals that are planned for the intersection with I-43.
And we bounced all these off of them and made sure that it worked with their plans.
And there were they felt that this would work as well.
So we don't need to take any extraordinary measures at lake in L.L. just by having all
the traffic piling up there during construction.
Other than right now where we have sheriff's deputies out directing traffic twice a day.
Well part of the so, yes, so the there will be traffic alleviated because right now Highland
Drive does not have any access to construction traffic as we're completing that work.
We're about a week to two weeks from that all being complete.
And at that point in time, the vantage team will open the southern entrance off of Highland
Drive.
So about half the trucks and equipment that are coming now to lake.
Half of them now will be coming up the south side on Highland Drive.
So we'll alleviate a lot of the pressure that you have at both K.W. and L.L. at Lake
Drive.
So that's probably going to be the biggest impact of being able to open up the access
point off of Highland Drive.
All right.
Any other questions?
Yes.
Have you spoken to Johnson Bus Company?
Are we concerned about school kids and?
Yes.
So we've spoken with them and we also have it written on to our specifications that
we will be coordinating with them and we will discuss the contractor will be required
to meet with Johnson Bus once we have a preliminary schedule put together and we can talk with
them as far as what the best routes are is that they need to go north or if they need
to go south.
So yes, that is written into our contract specifically that the contractor has to meet
with Johnson Bus to make sure that they are able to proceed business-wise as they should.
Yes.
So we do want to hear stories about how they are in our late school.
Yes.
We understood.
Thank you.
Who is primarily responsible for sharing us out to the community?
Because you know, most people aren't going to watch public works meetings.
So if it's because like there's this construction updates website on the Vantage D.C.
Lighthouse campus, do you guys have anything to do with that or is that Vantage themselves
because the last update on here was from April.
So Vantage has their own updates.
I don't know Roger if you have any more to add to that.
They're doing their own updates.
Vantage has their own updates.
We are planning on doing a PIM meeting with the town public information meeting specifically
Johnson Bus, Pierce Restaurant, Great Lakes Bolt, Allen Edmond's got an operation in
there.
So we could kind of have the same meeting discussion that we're having here.
Yes.
And I do apologize.
That was one of the key points I wanted to mention today and I forgot.
We are planning on scheduling a PIM prior to any sort of road work construction.
I just think if they could keep this construction updates website a little bit more updated
with so people know what to expect ahead of time would be.
So we can share.
I can certainly share this information with Vantage and ask for them to add it to their
site.
That would be I would assume that they would be fine with doing that.
Thank you.
This is probably more of a question for Robin Roger, but since the project is going to
be putting in curb stops for future water connections, are we doing any marketing at
all to those property owners that they are going to be aware that they can connect to
city water?
Because you know, we probably don't want it happening simultaneously with the project,
but the curb stop will be there be easy for them to continue.
Just want to make sure that they're all aware so that they can start making those connections
and we can produce a little bit of water revenue off of those areas.
Well, Roger can add we haven't done it, but I know the town chairman has gone door to
court to inform everyone.
All right.
Good.
All right.
Any other comments or questions?
All right.
Thank you.