The City of Plymouth will be able to make some additional water and sewer upgrades with money leftover from recent projects. The city council passed a resolution last week allowing more than a million dollars in surplus bond revenues to be used for some additional work, according to Clerk-Treasurer Jeanine Xaver.
“So basically, we issued bonds in 2015 and 2016,” she explains. “’15, I believe, was for the waterworks because they were doing a project. ’16 was for the sewer works for the improvements at their plant that were just completed. There are proceeds left from the bonds.”
Under the resolution, some of the leftover water bond money will be used on the Grand and North Liberty street water main projects, structures and hatches for three wells at the Ledyard Plant, and new conduit and wiring to one of the wells. Planned wastewater improvements include the replacement of the Candy Lane and Ledyard lift stations, pump updates at the Goshen Road lift station, and ultraviolet disinfection upgrades. The wastewater plant would also get valves replaced in secondary control, as well as piping modifications to the slurry tank yard drains.
Overall, the projected cost of the additional work would add up to a little more than half of the leftover money. Xaver says there were a few reasons for the surpluses, including the fact that the bonds were sold before bids were opened, a Guaranteed Savings Contract was used on the wastewater project, and some of the work was able to be done in-house.
