GMSA Wants Amnesty Program for Water Abusers

The Grove Municipal Services Authority has voted to instruct Staff to come up with an amnesty/reward program for utility customers who discover illegal water taps on the system. The Board took the action at its regular monthly meeting Tuesday at City Hall.

The Board rejected a bid on a new Stand Pipe and High Service Pump Station, as it was 27% over engineer estimates, and voted to re-advertise based on bolt-up construction.
The Board also approved spending $68,705 for utility supplies for the Leisure Lane/Har-Ber Road water and gas project, and tabled bids for actual construction of the project due to right of way issues. Three change orders for the Downtown Phase I Water & Storm Drainage Project were also approved totaling $77,907.

Ralph Handkin, engineer with Archer Engineering, updated the Board on the progress on utility construction work on Highway 59 to Sailboat Bridge, noting the project is 56% complete on the right side of the roadway and 48% complete on the left side, with 138 work days completed. Workers have 307 total days to complete the project which will then be turned over to ODOT for road construction, a five-lane highway including a center turn lane. The utlility project totals $2,358,148.